Spectacular images of colliding galaxies like the "Antennae", taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that a burst of star/cluster formation occurs whenever gas-rich galaxies interact. The ages and locations of these clusters reveal the interaction history and provide crucial clues to the process of star formation in galaxies. We propose to carry out state-of-theart numerical simul...

This paper presents an experimental design studio of digital performative design conducted in an architecture course, in Brazil. This teaching and learning experience included a period of three week exercise as part of an integrated design class. The overall objective of the experiment was to introduce the concept of performative design through a design exercise based on actual digital practice...

Methods One-hundred thirty six volunteers (male:34, female:102, mean BMI=21.1) who have no history of spinal diseases were enrolled. The average age was 39.5 years (20 ~ 69). Spino-pelvic alignments (T1/T12 kyphosis, Lumbar Lordosis [LL], Sacral Slope [SS], Pelvic tilt [PT], Pelvic Incidence [PI], T9-hip axis sagittal angle [T9ang], and sagittal vertical axis [SVA]) were measured using the EOS ...

Earliest possible prediction of seed-yield potential of autogamous crop populations increases breeding program efficiency by saving time and resources. Alternatives for obtaining seed-yield predictions were compared by evaluating four common-bean populations in F1 and F2 generations together with the parents. Mean components (m + a’ and d) and variances were estimated. The potential of each pop...

Analyzing spatiotemporal autocorrelation would be helpful to understand the underlying dynamic patterns in space and time simultaneously. In this work, we aim to extend the conventional spatial autocorrelation statistics to a more general framework considering both spatial and temporal dimensions. Specifically, we focus on the spatiotemporal version of Getis-Ord's G. The proposed indicator STG ...

34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 The comment by Szilagyi is a welcome addition to the debate surrounding the link between the hypothesis of groundwater ridging and streamflow generation. Indeed, since the first paper by Abdul and Gillham (1984), many comments and replies on this topic have followed in the journal literature (e.g., Zaltsberg, 1986 vs. Gillham and Abdul...

Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) is a key tomato pest in South America and, recently, in Europe and Africa. To develop efficient control methods for this pest, adequate rearing protocols are desirable. As an alternative to tomato leaves (natural diet), we evaluated four artificial diets. Biological traits including larval and pupal viability and development time, pupal weight and deformations were...

Population migration has played an important role in human evolutionary history and in the patterning of human genetic variation. A deeper and empirically-based understanding of human migration dynamics is needed in order to interpret genetic and archaeological evidence and to accurately reconstruct the prehistoric processes that comprise human evolutionary history. Current empirical estimates ...