Solar activity has been subject to increasingly more research in the last decades. Its influence on life Earth is now better understood. winds impact earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere. They can disrupt satellite communication navigation tools even electrical power grids several other infrastructure crucial for our technology-based society. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar energetic part...

ALPHA-CHYMO-TRYPSIN (A.C.T.) is an enzyme with fibrinolytic and proteolytic properties which is prepared from bovine pancreas. It was discovered by Dr. Joaquin Barraquer in 1957 that the substance had a selective solvent action on the zonule supporting the lens. After extensive animal and postmortem experiments he applied the discovery to the living human eye with important results. He found th...

From 1990-2001, we made 188 successful captures of 166 different greater sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis tabida) through experimental use of alpha-chloralose (AC). Most captures took place during September (72.3%; n = 136), followed by August (14.9%; n = 28), and October (12.8%; n = 24). Territorial pairs were captured more successfully than family groups. Overall morbidity (6.4%) and mortalit...

There is a growing interest for the problem of reconslructing thc shape of an object from multiple range images. Several methods, based on heuristics, have been described in the literature. We propose the use of alpha-shapes, which allow us to give a formal characterization of the reconstruction problem and to prove that, when certain sampling requirements are satisfied, the reconstructed alpha...

This paper examines type-2 fuzzy arithmetic using interval analysis. It relies heavily on alpha-cuts and alpha-planes. Furthermore, we discuss the use of quasi type-2 fuzzy sets proposed by Mendel and Liu and define quasi type-2 fuzzy numbers. Arithmetic operations of such numbers are defined and a worked example is presented. Keywords— Fuzzy Arithmetic, Type-2 Fuzzy Arithmetic, Type-2 Fuzzy Nu...

The main interest of this article is the one-sided boundedness local discrepancy $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\mathbb{Q}$ on interval $(0,c)\subset(0,1)$ defined by \[D_n(\alpha,c)=\sum_{j=1}^n 1_{\{\{j\alpha\}<c\}}-cn.\] We focus special case $c\in (0,1)\cap\mathbb{Q}$. Several necessary and sufficient conditions $\alpha$ for $(D_n(\alpha,c))$ to be one-side bounded are derived. Using these, c...