0019-1035/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.09.009 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +32 2 3749822. E-mail addresses: [email protected], Pascal.Rosenbla We reconsider two scenarios for the formation of Phobos and Deimos from a circum-martian accretion disk of debris: the strong tide regime for which accretion occurs close to the planet at the Roche limit and...

We prove two variants of Kolmogorov’s strong law of large numbers in a completely worst-case framework, eschewing any probabilistic assumptions. The first variant is an assertion about a game involving the Bookmaker predicting the values of unprobabilized random variables; in an intuitive sense it is much stronger than the usual strong law of large numbers for martingales. The second variant is...

This paper presents a five-year global simulation of HYCOM, the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model, that simultaneously resolves the eddying general circulation, barotropic tides, and baroclinic tides with 32 layers in the vertical direction and 1/12.5 (equatorial) horizontal grid spacing. A parameterized topographic wave drag is inserted into the model and tuned so that the surface tidal elevations...

The effects of various Abiotic factors, including concentrations of silicate and iron, temperature, light intensity and salinity of media on two purebred red tide diatoms, Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Thalassiosira weissflogii were investigated through single and full factorial experiments. The single-factor experiments showed diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum had the fastest growth rate with i...

Water level forecasting at various time intervals using records of past time series is of importance in water resources engineering and management. In the last 20 years, emerging approaches over the conventional harmonic analysis techniques are based on using Genetic Programming (GP) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). In the present study, the GP is used to forecast sea level variations, th...

Background: In 1972, Liggins and Howie demonstrated that antenatal steroid administration reduced the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome and perinatal mortality in neonates. Since the publication of these findings, perinatal and long-term results of steroid therapy have been evaluated in numerous studies. The aim of the review was to compare the impact of type, dosage, and time of prena...

A large data set of plant species has been collected in New Zealand from 1990 to 1993 on 10 different sites, where sampling was carried out using quadrates. The 10 sites were categorized into three different area types according to their vegetation growth. Each site was also divided into three subsites according to the animals present/absent. Naturally, biologists are very interested in finding...

The variability in the vertical position of a sewage plume, far from its point of discharge, is described and explained by the forcing from an internal tide. The sewage plume, discharged from the Sand Island treatment plant in the coastal waters of Mamala Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, was mapped using ship-board towyo observations collected during September 25 }October 1, 1994. Horizontal currents and tem...

Selecting an appropriate workgroup size is critical for the performance of OpenCL kernels, and requires knowledge of the underlying hardware, the data being operated on, and the implementation of the kernel. This makes portable performance of OpenCL programs a challenging goal, since simple heuristics and statically chosen values fail to exploit the available performance. To address this, we pr...

Because in the theory of economics, the value of a company is based on the current value of future cash flows and profit is used as a substitute for cash flows, profit forecasting is of particular importance. In the research, the effect of rounding and revision in predicting earnings per share on the investors' attention in Iran has been investigated. After designing the investors' attention as...