runoff simulation is a vital issue in water resource planning and management. various models with different levels of accuracy and precision are developed for this purpose considering various prediction time scales. in this paper, two models of ihacres (identification of unit hydrographs and component flows from rainfall, evaporation and streamflow data) and ann (artificial neural network) mode...

Abstmctadapt to the long-term average of the stimulus. For examNeurobiological systems possess a tremendous ability to adapt to the surrounding environment at multiple timescales and at multiple stages of processing. Though the purpose of these biological adaptation mechanisms is not clear, some theories suggest that these methods allow for the finetuning of the visual system through long-term ...

The quality assurance of the two Brewer spectrophotometers of the Finnish Meteorological Institute is discussed in this paper. The complete data processing chain from raw signal to high quality spectra is presented. The quality assurance includes daily maintenance, laboratory characterizations, calculation of long term spectral respon-5 sivity, data processing and quality assessment. The cosine...

We explore and compare the performances of two nonlinear correction and scale-dependent biasing models for the extraction of cosmological information from galaxy power spectrum data, especially in the context of beyond-ΛCDM cosmologies. The first model is the well known Q model, first applied in the analysis of 2dFGRS data. The second, the P model, is inspired by the halo model, in which nonlin...

Building large-scale, globally consistent maps is a challenging problem, made more difficult in environments with limited access, sparse features, or when using data collected by novice users. For such scenarios, where state-of-the-art mapping algorithms produce globally inconsistent maps, we introduce a systematic approach to incorporating sparse human corrections, which we term Human-in-the-L...

BACKGROUND Short-term studies have demonstrated good surgical outcomes after pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients, but there is a paucity of literature focused on middle-term results, especially regarding patterns of loss of correction. The objective of this study is to assess the durability of surgical outcomes and the patterns of loss of correction in th...

We point out a large correction to the radion kinetic term, within the GoldbergerWise radion stabilization mechanism, which has heretofore been overlooked. The radion mass is reduced by this factor, and takes the seesaw form mφ ∼ TeV/MPlanck. We find that mφ ∼ 10−3 − 10−1 eV, which can be close to the limit of sensitivity of present-day short-range gravitational force experiments. Moreover, the...

Background: Congenital radial club hand (RCH), as a rare congenital deformity of the upper extremity, is characterized by a wide spectrum of malformations including radial deviation. Centralization surgery is the standard treatment for severe cases that have been associated with a high rate of recurrence. This study reports the long-term results and recurrence rate of radial deviation following...