Autoregressive (AR) extrapolation of travel-time data is tested using several synthetic tomography examples using a cross-borehole geometry. Earlier studies have shown crossborehole tomography using travel-times can have reduced resolution because of the limitations on ray coverage. We apply AR extrapolation to partial travel-time data and then compare the tomographic inversions using the full ...

This study projects how much Medicare beneficiaries who sign up for the standard Part D drug benefit in 2006 will pay in quarterly out-of-pocket payments through 2008. In the first year we estimate that about 38 percent of enrollees will hit the benefit's no-coverage zone, known as the "doughnut hole," and that 14 percent will exceed the catastrophic threshold. Because drug spending is highly p...

Hydrogen spillover on carbon-based systems has been proposed as a viable alternative for room-temperature storage. Given the strength of the C-H bonds, however, it is unclear if spillover indeed takes place in such materials. We performed a first-principles study of H spillover on IRMOF-1. Spillover becomes thermodynamically stable only at high H coverage with a calculated Gibbs free energy of ...

Film cooling is a cooling technique widely used in highperformance gas turbines to protect the turbine airfoils from being damaged by hot flue gases. Motivated by the need to further improve film cooling in terms of both cooling effectiveness and coolant coverage area, the mist/air film cooling scheme is investigated through experiments in this study. A small amount of tiny water droplets (7% w...

Wireless sensor networks have been widely considered as one of the most important 21th century technologies and are used in so many applications such as environmental monitoring, security and surveillance. Wireless sensor networks are used when it is not possible or convenient to supply signaling or power supply wires to a wireless sensor node. The wireless sensor node must be battery powered.C...

The 'ozone hole' has caused an increase in ultraviolet B radiation (UV-B, 280-320 nm) penetrating Antarctic coastal marine ecosystems, however the direct effect of this enhanced UV-B on pelagic organisms remains unclear. Oxidative stress, the in vivo production of reactive oxygen species to levels high enough to overcome anti-oxidant defences, is a key outcome of exposure to solar radiation, ye...

Strain-free epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are fabricated by a combination of Al local droplet etching (LDE) of nanoholes in AlGaAs surfaces and subsequent hole filling with GaAs. The whole process is performed in a conventional molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) chamber. Autocorrelation measurements establish single-photon emission from LDE QDs with a very small correlation function g ((2))(0)≃ 0.01 o...

In this paper, we pinpoint a new sensor selfdeployment problem, achieving focused coverage around a Point of Interest (POI), and introduce an evaluation metric, coverage radius, that reflects the significance of distance from the POI to uncovered areas. Then we propose two solution protocols, Greedy Advance (GA) and GreedyRotation-Greedy (GRG), which are to our best knowledge the first sensor s...