: Basic body-part names (BBPNs) were defined as body-part names in Swadesh basic 200 words. Non-Mayan cognates of Mayan (MY) BBPNs were extensively searched for, by comparing with non-MY vocabulary, including ca.1300 basic words of 82 AN languages listed by Tryon (1985), etc. Thus found cognates (CGs) in non-MY are listed in Table 1, as classified by language groups to which most similar cognat...

This work focuses on constructing a vibrational energy scavenging device with a specific application to MEMS wireless sensor networks. The device utilizes vibrations produced by HVAC ducts, traffic in a room, and even wind hitting a window. The advantages of using thin film (~1 micron) PZT (Pb1.15(Zr0.47, Ti0.53)O3) over a larger scale bimorph will be addressed. The thin films are grown using p...

American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a deciduous shrub native to the southeast United States and is grown primarily for its metallic-purple fruit that develop in the fall. There are also pinkand white-fruiting and variegated forms but these traits are rare in nature and there is no information available regarding their inheritance. Also, there is confusion regarding self-compatibility...

A promising approach to multi-TeV linear colliders is the Two-Beam approach being pursued at CERN[1,2]. In this technique the energy for acceleration is provided by a drive beam that is accelerated efficiently by a fully loaded, low frequency linac. To achieve the correct pulse structure, the beam is compressed in delay rings before delivery to the linac where it is decelerated. The resulting h...

Assessment of predictive accuracy is a critical aspect of evaluating and comparing models, algorithms or technologies that produce the predictions. In the field of medical diagnosis, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves have become the standard tool for this purpose and its use is becoming increasingly common in other fields such as finance, atmospheric science and machine learning. T...

Ambiguous strings are strings of non-whitespace characters, typically coinciding with orthographic contractions of word forms, that depending on the specific occurrence, are to be considered as consisting of one or more than one token. This sort of strings is shown to raise the problem of undesired circularity between tokenization and tagging. This paper presents a strategy to resolve ambiguous...

The launch of Cartosat-1 is the beginning of yet another series of satellite mission after IRS satellites for earth observation and natural resource management applications. The first in its series of satellite for Cartographic applications, Cartosat-1 was launched on 5th May 2005. The along-track stereo viewing capability was realized by employing two cameras viz. FORE with mounting pitch angl...

Ultrasonic testing (UT) is widely applied for the inspection to various plants and structures. However, in the application to the inspection of high attenuation materials such as austenitic weld joints and the inspection near the surface, the SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) decreases and it makes it difficult to assess the testing results. To solve this issue, systems of a signal processing by the ...

Introduction: Trabecular bone orientation (anisotropy), together with bone mineral density, plays an important role in evaluating bone quality (e.g. mechanical competence). This structural information is also a key parameter in bridging bone mechanical behaviour at a macro-scale and its functional adaptation at a cellular scale [1]. Although many methods have been proposed to calculate trabecul...

Knowledge about human goals has been found to be an important kind of knowledge for a range of challenging problems, such as goal recognition from peoples’ actions or reasoning about human goals. Necessary steps towards conducting such complex tasks involve (i) acquiring a broad range of human goals and (ii) making them accessible by structuring and storing them in a knowledge base. In this wor...