The intensity –duration –frequency (IDF) curves play most important role in watershed management, flood control and hydraulic design of structures. Conventional method for calculating the IDF curves needs hourly rainfall data in different durations which is not extensively available in many regions. Instead 24-hour precipitation statistics were measured in most rain-gauge stations. In this stud...

Scaling behavior of the island size distribution through a universal scaling function f(u) is demonstrated for submonolayer pentacene islands in the aggregation regime (0.1<theta<0.5) grown on oxidized silicon surfaces. The distribution of f(u) suggests that four molecules constitute the smallest stable island. The structure factor S(k) of the submonolayer films calculated from AFM micrographs ...

Work-related upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders, including carpal tunnel syndrome, are prevalent among dentists and dental hygienists. An important risk factor for developing these disorders is forceful pinching which occurs during periodontal work such as dental scaling. Ergonomically designed dental scaling instruments may help reduce the prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome among dent...

It is well known that in the univariate case, up to an integer shift and possible sign change, there is no dyadic compactly supported symmetric orthonormal scaling function except for the Haar function. In this paper we are concerned with the construction of symmetric orthonormal scaling functions with dilation factor d = 4. Several examples of such scaling functions are provided in this paper....

The physics program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility includes a strong effort to measure form factors and structure functions to probe the structure of hadronic matter, reveal the nature of confinement, and develop an understanding of atomic nuclei using quark-gluon degrees of freedom. The CLAS detector is a large acceptance device occupying one of the end stations. We disc...

an analytical equation of state by song and mason is developed to calculate the pvt properties ofmercury. the equation of state is based on the statistical-mechanical perturbation theory of hard convexbodies and can be written as a fifth-order polynomial in the density. there exists three temperaturedependentparameters in the equation of state; the second virial coefficient, an effective molecu...

The scaling factor in a ultra-wideband antenna is investigated. Here is showed that the lower frequency limit of the bandwidth is reduced as the scaling factor is bigger than unity. Using the obtained results a UWB planar monopole antenna was designed. The measured antenna bandwidth goes from 650 MHz to 20 GHz for a VSWR ≤ 2. The radiation pattern remains almost omnidirectional. The radiator us...

Asymptotic expressions for the optimal scaling factor and resulting minimum distortion , as a function of codebook size N, are found for xed-rate k-dimensional lattice vector quantization of generalized Gaussian sources with decay parameter 1. These expressions are derived by minimizing upper and lower bounds to distortion. It is shown that the optimal scaling factor a N decreases as (lnN) 1== ...