(International) research collaboration (IRC) is considered one of the most important aspects academic careers and, although it often linked to co-authorship, investigations perceptions and practices are rare. Reflections on factors affecting IRC, as well effective technology for use in IRC also now particularly vital, due outbreak COVID-19. The aim this three-round Delphi study, conducted prior...

This article describes an improvement to integral resonance damping control (IRC) for reference tracking applications, such as scanning probe microscopy and nanofabrication. It is demonstrated that IRC control introduces a low-frequency pole into the tracking loop that is detrimental for performance. In this work, the location of this pole is found analytically using Cardano’s method then compe...

We report the detection of the 1665 and 1667MHz main lines of OH (hydroxyl) and upper limits on the 1612MHz satellite line of OH towards the carbonrich AGB star, IRC+10216. We find a beam averaged fractional abundance x(OH) ∼ 4 × 10. This detection supports the identification by Melnick et al. (2001) of the 110−101 transition of water vapor with a 556.936GHz emission feature detected towards IR...

The present research deals with the review of the analysis and modeling of Swiss franc interest rate curves (IRC) by using unsupervised (SOM, Gaussian Mixtures) and supervised machine (MLP) learning algorithms. IRC are considered as objects embedded into different feature spaces: maturities; maturity-date, parameters of Nelson-Siegel model (NSM). Analysis of NSM parameters and their temporal an...

A bridge is a structure providing passage over an obstacle without closing the way beneath. The required passage may be for a road, a railway, pedestrians, a canal or a pipeline. Now a days, bridge deck section of Box shapes are used widely. Most of the bridges constructed are of Box girders. Method of post-tensioning in the construction of bridges is very common today. Most of the bridges are ...

This paper reports on the observation of enhanced Ar impurity confinement in high density, turbulence reduced ion-root (IRC) scenarios Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X). Compared to central electron-root (CERC), densities are substantially increased up one order magnitude and flux profiles switch from slightly positive pronounced negative fluxes all along plasma radius IRC. Estimations diffusive D convect...

The unusual source IRC +10216 is the brightest stellar object at mid-infrared wavelengths in the northern hemisphere. Adding to its distinctiveness, the dust around IRC +10216 almost completely enshrouds the star and has an extremely complex distribution. We report the imaging of IRC +10216 at 11.15 m with three telescopes and the closure phase at two different stellar phases. Three-baseline in...

89 otherwise shed light on their underground activities. In one recent case, honeynet intruders exposed the existence of automated tools that support and facilitate identity theft and credit-card fraud. Members of a community who call themselves carders use these tools to defraud Internet merchants and consumers of potentially large financial sums. The preceding installment of this department 1...

Multihoming Intelligent Route Control (IRC) plays a significant role in improving the performance of Internet accesses. However, in a competitive environment, IRC systems may introduce persistent route oscillations, causing significant performance degradation. In this study, we investigate three design alternatives to cope with this issue: Randomized Path Monitoring, Randomized Path Switching a...

We report the detection of H2CO (formaldehyde) around the carbon-rich AGB star, IRC+10216. We find a fractional abundance with respect to molecular hydrogen of x(H2CO) = 1.3 +1.5 −0.8 × 10 . This corresponds to a formaldehyde abundance with respect to water vapor of x(H2CO)/x(H2O) = (1.1±0.2)×10 , in line with the formaldehyde abundances found in Solar System comets, and indicates that the puta...