0306-2619/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd A doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.01.018 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Qin). Global solar radiation (GSR) is required in a large number of fields. Many parameterization schemes are developed to estimate it using routinely measured meteorological variables, since GSR is directly measured at a limited number of station...

Galvanic skin response (GSR) is commonly used to measure short-term emotional and cognitive stress, but measuring GSR requires obtrusive equipment. We present a model to predict stress levels solely from electrocardiogram (ECG) data, which can be measured with wearable consumer-grade heart monitors. Our model incorporates time and frequency domain features of heart rate variability, and the spe...

A famous result of Bayer and Diaconis [2] is that the Gilbert-Shannon-Reeds (GSR) model for the riffle shuffle of n cards mixes in 3 2 log2 n steps and that for 52 cards about 7 shuffles suffices to mix the deck. In this paper, we study variants of the GSR shuffle that have been proposed to model more realistically how people actually shuffle a deck of cards. The clumpy riffle shuffle and deale...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has been used to determine the period of time that a shooter will test positive for gunshot residue (GSR) after firing a revolver. Multiple rounds of primer were fired and samples collected at multiple hour intervals using an adhesive tape pressed against the skin. Samples were analyzed directly using a commercially available laser-induced breakdown s...

Nutritional and dietary interventions and the introduction of novel food products and ingredients require a thorough understanding of the drivers of food choice, which are embedded in local context and culture. We developed a framework of "gastronomic systems research" (GSR) to understand culture-specific consumer food choice, and contextualise it to a target population of urban, middle- to hig...

As sessile organisms, plants were constantly challenged with biotic and abiotic stresses. Transcriptional activation of stress-responsive genes is a crucial part of the plant adaptation to environmental changes. Here, early response of rice root to eight rhizotoxic stressors: arsenate, copper, cadmium, mercury, chromate, vanadate, ferulic acid and juglone, was analyzed using published microarra...

Disk scheduling has an important role in QOS guarantee of soft real-time environments such as videoon-demand and multimedia servers. Since now, some disk-scheduling algorithms have been proposed to schedule real-time disk requests. One of the most recent algorithms is global seek-optimizing realtime (GSR) that schedules the disk requests with different ready times by a global regrouping scheme....

The ultrafast ground state recovery (GSR) dynamics of the radical cation of perylene, Pe(*+), generated upon bimolecular photoinduced electron transfer in acetonitrile, has been investigated using pump-pump-probe spectroscopy. With 1,4-dicyanobenzene as electron acceptor, the free ion yield is substantial and the GSR dynamics of Pe(*+) was found to depend on the time delay between the first and...

We critically compare particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) on the ion microprobe with scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEMEDS) for the characterisation of gunshot residues (GSR). Samples of gunshot residue from several different firearms were collected. Individual particles of GSR were analysed by SEM-EDS using a 30keV electron beam focussed to ~10nm and...

The general stress response (GSR) is an evolutionarily conserved rapid and transient transcriptional reprograming of genes central for transducing environmental signals into cellular responses, leading to metabolic and physiological readjustments to cope with prevailing conditions. Defining the regulatory components of the GSR will provide crucial insight into the design principles of early str...