I review some basic ideas behind possible future long-baseline neutrino experiments to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy and uncover leptonic CP violation. With emphasis of “large θ13” hypothesis I try to illuminate the principles of the conventional method for resolving the mass hierarchy by using the earth matter effect, and for detecting CP violation as a vacuum effect. They include the ...

The goal of this essay is to give an overview of distance learning. This is a very broad and interesting field, and it could be studied from many different perspectives. Here we focus on the history, different types of distance education, corresponding design challenges and technological solutions and present some examples of commercially available software systems. We devote less attention to ...

This study is based on the tracing of the left-ventricular endocardial borders of echocardiographic images. The algorithms used for border detection are the Active Contour Models (ACM) and also the one developed in the EchoPAC software. The mentioned algorithms were applied on apical two chamber view (A2C) in endsystole and end-diastole frames. The overlapping between borders detected using bot...

Studies of goal management have examined how to manage multiple goals. Previous research (Finkelstein & Fislibach, 2010) showed that healthy eating made one hungrier. This study hypothesized that participants were hungrier when a health goal was not activated than when it was activated. It is expected that in such cases, goal shifting might be more likely to occur because goal progress had been...

Humdrum is a general-purpose software system intended to assist music researchers. Humdrum's capabilities are quite broad, so it is difficult to describe concisely what it can do. This chapter provides a brief tour through Humdrum: the goal is to give you a quick glimpse of Humdrum's capabilities and to help sketch some of the big picture. Don't worry if you don't understand everything in this ...

motivated by the problem of vertical flexion of fully clamped beams. Our main goal in this paper is to study the properties previously mentioned when the set D is a time-dependent nonempty bounded subset Ωt of Rn, which means that the supports of the extremes of the beam have small displacements. Note that the sets Ωt , where u=u(x,t) is defined, change with the time, which yields a noncylindri...

This note is intended as a very long footnote to the other finite geometry papers in this volume. Areas of overlap between finite geometry (or combinatorics) and finite groups will be listed which were either not mentioned, or were only briefly alluded to, at the conference. However, the descriptions and bibliography given here will also be brief: the goal is to indicate research directions, no...

We would like to propose a new method in view to catch smoothing properties and analyticity of functions by computers. Of course, in the strict sense, such goal is impossible. However, we would like to propose some practical method that may be applied for many concrete cases for some good functions (but not for bad functions, in a sense). Therefore, this may be viewed as a procedure proposal wh...

In this paper, a decision theoretic view of the goal of surveillance is adopted. Subsequently a very simple formal model of the environment is introduced with the purpose of deening and comparing surveillance strategies. Several existing surveillance strategies are discussed. Then our decision-theoretic strategy is proposed and compared with the existing strategies on a theoretical level. In or...

Tracey Emin is one of the bestknown current British artists. Her art is essentially autobiographical. The major aim of the present essay is to analyze Emin’s artist work and to study her artistic references. To fulfill this goal, biographic references, linked to her artistic work, are mentioned and her topics, obsessions, procedures, and techniques are reviewed, with a special mention to the ce...