AssraAcr.-The White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) of the Americas has been merged with the Black-shouldered (or Black-winged) Kite (E. caeruleus) of the Old World and the Australian Black-shouldered Kite (E. axillaris) by North American authorities (but not elsewhere), primarily because of similarity in plumage. However, American kites differ from Old World kites in greater size and weight, in ...

Recent development in tethered airfoil i.e. kite technology allows the possibility of exploitation of wind energy at higher altitudes than achievable with traditional wind turbines, with greater efficiency and reduced costs. This study describes the use of evolutionary robotics techniques to build neurocontrollers that maximize energy recoverable from wind by kite control systems in simulation....

Information from the sky is important for rescue activity in large-scale disaster or dangerous areas. Observation system using a balloon or an airplane has been studied as an information gathering system from the sky. A balloon observation system needs helium gas and relatively long time to be ready. An airplane observation system can be prepared in a short time and its mobility is good. Howeve...

Let D be the triangle with an attached edge (i. e. D is the “kite”, a graph having vertices {a0, a1, a2, a3} and edges {a0, a1}, {a0, a2}, {a1, a2}, {a0, a3}). Bermond and Schönheim [6] proved that a kite-design of order n exists if and only if n ≡ 0 or 1 (mod 8). Let (W, C) be a nontrivial kite-design of order n ≥ 8, and let V ⊂ W with |V | = v < n. A path design (V,P) of order v and block siz...

Comments on the article by M. E. Kite et al (see record 2001-10045-002), which summarized the findings and recommendations of the Task Force on the Status of Women in Academe. The present authors contend that while Kite et al documented the differences in the activities of men and women in academia, it is not clear that "inequalities persist." Kite et al interpreted the observed differences in ...

A kite-design of order n is a decomposition of the complete graph Kn into kites. Such systems exist precisely when n ≡ 0, 1 (mod 8). Two kite systems (X,K1) and (X,K2) are said to intersect in m pairwise disjoint blocks if |K1∩K2| = m and all blocks in K1∩K2 are pairwise disjoint. In this paper we determine all the possible values of m such that there are two kite-designs of order n intersectin...

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: Abstract The spectrum of octagon kite system (OKS) which is nesting strongly balanced 4-kite-designs is determined.

This paper proposes how the relationship that exists between different characters in his novels is experimented diverse conditions and are tested tried to discover their unique paths of assimilation with loved ones completion circle. Despite spatial differences, each character connected a string bond which portrays ‘similarity’ difference, yet humanity need understanding. The physical space emo...

The Cape Verde kite (Milvus milvus fasciicauda) is considered to be one of the rarest birds of prey in the world and at significant risk of extinction. For this reason there is great interest in both the taxonomic and the population status of this group. To help resolve its taxonomic status, we provide phylogenetic analyses based on three mitochondrial genes for a sampling of kites in the genus...