Reactive nitrogen (Nr) is removed by surface fluxes (air-surface exchange) and wet deposition. The chemistry and physics of the atmosphere result in a complicated system in which competing chemical sources and sinks exist and impact that removal. Therefore, uncertainties are best examined with complete regional chemical transport models that simulate these feedbacks. We analysed several uncerta...

In modern manufacturing systems and industries, more and more research efforts have been made in developing effective machine health monitoring systems. Among various machine health monitoring approaches, data-driven methods are gaining in popularity due to the development of advanced sensing and data analytic techniques. However, considering the noise, varying length and irregular sampling beh...

This paper describes the foundations and algorithms of a new probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planner that is: single-query – instead of pre-computing a roadmap covering the entire free space, it uses the two input query configurations to explore as little space as possible; bi-directional – it explores the robot’s free space by building a roadmap made of two trees rooted at the query configurations...

Shortest path problems can be solved very efficiently when a directed graph is nearly acyclic. Earlier results defined a graph decomposition, now called the 1-dominator set, which consists of a unique collection of acyclic structures with each single acyclic structure dominated by a single associated trigger vertex. In this framework, a specialised shortest path algorithm only spends delete-min...

Acknowledgements: The authors declare no competing financial interests. We thank 29 Özgür Genç and TingTing Wang for comments on the manuscript. ABSTRACT 33 Homeostatic signaling stabilizes synaptic transmission at the neuromuscular 34 junction (NMJ) of Drosophila, mice, and human. It is believed that homeostatic 35 signaling at the NMJ is bi-directional and considerable progress has been made ...

To diagnose hypertension, multiple blood pressure (BP) measurements are recommended. We randomized patients into three groups: EMR-only (patients recorded BP measurements in an electronic medical record [EMR] web portal), EMR + reminders (patients were sent text message reminders to record their BP measurements in the EMR), and bi-directional text messaging (patients were sent a text message as...

The seismic design of bridge structure is influenced by the bi-directional excitation phenomenon. The bi-directional effects have been ignored in most of the past studies. The calculation of maximum isolator displacements (as per the equation prescribed by AASHTO) also ignores the bi-directional effects of ground motion. In the formulation, the coupled behaviour of the isolation systems has als...

People’s activity recognition technology has a large number of applications in indoor monitoring, smart healthcare, and homes. Traditional methods require hardware-mounted or wearable sensors, which bring additional costs impose many limitations on usage, while WiFi devices have the advantages low cost, wide coverage, wall penetration, can compensate for traditional means. A WiFi-based behavior...