A number of space missions dedicated to the search for exo-planets via the transit method, such as COROT, Eddington and Kepler, are planned for launch over the next few years. They will need to address problems associated with the automated and efficient detection of planetary transits in light curves affected by a variety of noise sources, including stellar variability. To maximise the scienti...

One of the most difficult tasks for organizations is customer prospecting. This activity alone will often determine if a new venture will succeed or fail. It is also critical to the marketing activity of established firms. The effectiveness of the usual marketing techniques for prospecting and targeting customers methods as well as their limitations are discussed. In the light of this, the ques...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.05.005 0003-3472/© 2015 The Association for the Study of A When and where to disperse is a major life history decision with crucial fitness consequences. Before dispersing, individuals may benefit from checking the suitability of potential future habitats. In highly social species, such prospecting may be directed towards other groups rather than alterna...

Prospecting for in situ mineral resources is essential for establishing settlements on the Moon and Mars. To reduce human effort and risk, it is desirable to build robotic systems to perform this prospecting. An important issue in designing such systems is the sampling strategy: how do the robots choose where to prospect next? This paper argues that a strategy called Adaptive Cluster Sampling (...

The piezoelectric and seismo-electrokinetic phenomena are manifested by electrical and electromagnetic processes that occur in rocks under the influence of elastic oscillations triggered by shots or mechanical impacts. Differences in piezoelectric properties between the studied targets and host media determine the possibilities of the piezoelectric/seismoelectric method application. Over a long...