We report the rst unambiguous detection of the host galaxy of a normal radio-quiet QSO at high-redshift in K-band. The luminosity of the host comprises about 35% of the total K-band luminosity. Assuming the average colour of QSOs at z 2, the host would be about 5 to 6 mag brighter than an unevolved L galaxy placed at z 2, and 3 to 4 mag brighter than a passively evolved L galaxy at the same red...

Automatic landslide classification based on digital elevation models has become a powerful complementary tool to field mapping. Many studies focus the automatic of landslides’ geomorphological features, such as their steep main scarps, but in many cases, scarps and other morphological features are difficult for algorithms detect. In this study, we performed an different litho-geomorphological u...

In April 2010 the International Finance Corporation announced the creation of the African, Latin American, and Caribbean fund, a new co-investment vehicle funded largely with commitments from sovereign wealth and pension funds. The fund’s objective was to draw on the IFC and the World Bank’s strengths in emerging markets to identify and support enterprises that might not otherwise have come to ...

For a bar and joint framework (G, p) with point group C3 which describes 3-fold rotational symmetry in the plane, it was recently shown in (Schulze, Discret. Comp. Geom. 44:946-972) that the standard Laman conditions, together with the condition derived in (Connelly et al., Int. J. Solids Struct. 46:762-773) that no vertices are fixed by the automorphism corresponding to the 3-fold rotation (ge...

Observation of writers producingg non-trivial texts suggests t hat most spendd time generating andd organisingg content prior to draftingg full text. Resear chsuggests a linkk between time spent inn these activities andd the quality of the resulting docume nt. Very little is known, however, about either the nature of the representation that is c reatedd during this planningg phase (the writer's...

As part of a broader strategy towards supporting semantic interoperability in geospatial applications, in this paper we present a semantic schema we designed for GeoNames and the qualitative improvements we obtained by enforcing it on the data. Introduction. GeoNames (www.geonames.org) is a well-known geospatial dataset providing geographical data and metadata of around 7 million unique named p...

Two homologous series of cyclically twinned sulphosalt structures are defined in the present paper, with different atomic configurations around the site of sixand threefold axes. The zinckenite homologous series, M6+x+N(N+S) A12+N(N+7), contains zinckenite, a Pb-Sb sulphosalt, and sulphohalogenides of Bi and Pb. The Ba Bi sulphide homologous series, M12+x+N(N+S) A18+N(N+7), contains complex sul...

THERMUS is a package of C++ classes and functions allowing statistical-thermal model analyses of particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to be performed within the ROOT framework of analysis. Calculations are possible within three statistical ensembles; a grand-canonical treatment of the conserved charges B, S and Q, a fully canonical treatment of the conserved charges, and a m...

BACKGROUND Childbirth fear is reported to affect around 20% of women. However reporting on levels of symptom severity vary. Unlike Scandinavian countries, there has been limited focus on childbirth fear in Australia. The aim of this paper is to determine the prevalence of low, moderate, high and severe levels of childbirth fear in a large representative sample of pregnant women drawn from a lar...