SUMMARY Global variations in the propagation of fundamental-mode and overtone surface waves provide unique constraints on low-frequency source properties structure Earth’s upper mantle, transition zone mid mantle. We construct a reference data set multimode dispersion measurements by reconciling large diverse catalogues Love-wave (49.65 million) Rayleigh-wave (177.66 from eight groups worldwide...

The representation of navigable space, consisting of multiple interconnected spaces, yet is not well understood. We examined different levels of integration within memory (local, regional, global). Participants learned two distinctive regions of a virtual environment that converged at a common transition-point. Subsequently, we tested their memory with a pointing task, varying body alignment du...

The South Pacific countries of Vanuatu, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea have ascended rapidly up the development spectrum in recent years, refining an independent and post-colonial economic and political identity that enhances their recognition on the world stage. All three countries have overcome economic, political and public health challenges in order to stake their claim to sovereignty. In this...

This editorial will address two issues that are still a source of global controversy and confusion in present day perfusion practice. Membrane oxygenators are designed and tested to a set of stringent flow standards prior to their release from every manufacturer. But how well do we know the iatrogenic consequences of pushing these devices beyond their maximum rated limits? In addition, how well...

In high dimensional data sets not all dimensions contain an equal amount of information and most of the time global features are more important than local differences. This makes it difficult to select a similarity measures that inherently considers these differences in weighting. We are presenting a sparse coding based similarity measure that is capable of extracting and emphasizing relevant e...

We present a set of Gupta potentials fitted against highest-level ab initio data for interactions of the alkaline earth metals: beryllium, magnesium, and calcium. Reference potential energy curves have been computed for both pure and mixed dimers with the coupled cluster method including corrections for basic set incompleteness and relativistic effects. To demonstrate their usability for the ef...

The noise power of bandgap references is directly related to the current consumption of the bandgap reference. This paper describes the design of low-noise bandgap references. It is shown that for an idealized bandgap reference, a fundamental noise limit exists when the limited current consumption is a constraint. A design example is given of a 1 V bipolar bandgap reference with a current consu...

The global radiosonde record is the primary tool for determining climatic variations of temperature, moisture, and wind above the surface, but instrument and data processing changes have caused all long-term trends to be questioned. This paper describes initial stages of an effort to adjust radiosonde observations to a common hypothetical “reference instrument” to determine unbiased global prec...