The Mollisols from the Pampas Region of Argentina have been described as presenting different compactability behaviors under agricultural systems. The purpose of this study was to provide information on the inherent soil factors related to the susceptibility to compaction. Total organic carbon (TOC), texture (CLAY, SILT, SAND), water retention at 0.33 kPa (WR), Proctor maximum bulk density (BDM...

We study, formally and experimentally, the trade-off in temporal and spatial performance when managing contiguous pieces of memory using the explicit, dynamic memory management system Compact-fit (CF). The key property of CF is that temporal and spatial performance can be bounded, related, and predicted in constant time through the notion of partial and incremental compaction. Partial compactio...

BACKGROUND Compaction of human ocular lens fiber cells as a function of both aging and cataractogenesis has been demonstrated previously using scanning electron microscopy. The purpose of this investigation is to quantify morphological differences in the inner nuclear regions of cataractous and non-cataractous human lenses from individuals with diabetes. The hypothesis is that, even in the pres...

Cardiomyopathies classification is based on morphological and functional phenotypes and subcategories of familial/genetic and non-familial/non-genetic disease. The non-compaction cardiomyopathy is a rare disorder which is considered to be an unclassified cardiomyopathy according to the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases and the World Health Organization or a primary geneti...

assessment and management of the environmental impacts of forest harvesting operations have become increasingly critical factors in practicing commercial forestry. this study investigated soil disturbance from a forest logging system operation on an 8-hectare mixed broadleaved stand in compartment no. 309 in gorazbon district in kheyrud educational and research forest. the objective of this stu...

•Accessibility by non-experts: researchers in the social sciences should be able to use the system to share and explore data with no involvement from experts in data privacy, computer science, or statistics. •Generality: the system should be applicable and effective on a wide variety of heterogeneous datasets hosted in a repository such as the Harvard Dataverse. •Workflow-compatibility: the sys...

The Internet is changing rapidly the way people around the world communicate, learn, and work. Yet the tremendous benefits of the Internet are not shared equally by all. One way to close the gap of the ‘digital divide’ is to ensure Internet access to all schools from an early age. While both the USA and EU have embraced the promotion of Internet access to schools, the two have decided to financ...

In a study of g'(3684) radiative decays with the Mark II detector at SPEAR, we observe the decay sequence $' -+ rs,(2980), with the q,(2980) decaying into several completely reconstructed hadronic modes. We obtain a mass M = 298ok8 MeV/c2 and a width r < 40 MeV/c2 (gO$ confidence level), and present estimates of some of the decay branching ratios. Submitted to Physical Review Letters *This work...

This paper describes a robust multi-phase algorithm for marking of pitch pulses in speech using both glottal and speech signals. In the first phase, the glottal signal is used for the estimation of the fundamental frequency (f0) contour of the given sentence. Next, pitch mark candidates are generated on the basis of both glottal and speech signals. In the third phase, the best sequence of pitch...

Let P be a set of n objects on a square grid. A push is a transformation of P that involves sweeping a horizontal or vertical line by one unit, starting from the hull of P , displacing objects in the direction of the sweep. For example, when pushing to the right, all the leftmost objects are displaced one unit to the right. This in turn displaces other objects further right. Given P , we want t...