The signal induced by an electron on a pickup strip has been calculated in a RPC used in INO calorimeter [1] following Ramo’s theorem [2]. An accurate estimation of weighting field has been obtained using a nearly exact Boundary Element Method (neBEM) solver [3] while the electron velocity from the real field values. The calculation has shown a growth and subsequent fall of pickup signal with d...

This work proposes a Branch-cut-and-price (BCP) approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery (VRPSPD). We also deal with a particular case of the VRPSPD, known as the Vehicle Routing Problem with Mixed Pickup and Delivery. The BCP algorithm was tested in well-known benchmark instances involving up to 200 customers. Four instances were solved for the first time ...

The real-time vehicle routing problem with time windows and simultaneous delivery products and pickup wastage materials (RT-VRPTWDPPWM) is formulated as extension of VRP. The real-time delivery/pickup demands are served by capacitated vehicles with limited initial loads. Moreover, pickup services aren't necessarily done after delivery services in each route. A improved genetic algorithm ( ...

“Current injection has been demonstrated before as a viable means to control SQUIDs12–14 dominated by geometric inductance. These directly-coupled SQUIDs used a large pickup loop to convert an applied magnetic field into a current bias which was injected a smaller, more sensitive readout SQUID. Although the readout SQUIDs in these devices were smaller than the pickup loops, they still used larg...

This work presents the formulation of the pickup probability for sediment entrainment under the log-normally distributed instantaneous velocity. Herein two mathematical approaches, namely the analytical method and the first-order approximation method, are employed in the theoretical derivation. The results are compared with the published experimental data and the previous pickup probability der...

As a step toward a science of visual information design, this paper offers a perceptual cognitive model that describes and distinguishes two fundamental properties of graphics: pictorial and symbolic properties. These emerge through two interrelated aspects of the perception-reaction loop: pickup and simulation. I will describe how pictorial properties engage relatively more ‘pickup,’ while sym...

Pickup ions measured deep inside the heliosphere open a new way to determine the absolute atomic density of a number of elements and isotopes in the local interstellar cloud (LIC). We derive the atomic abundance of hydrogen and the two isotopes of helium from the velocity and spatial distributions of interstellar pickup protons and ionized helium measured with the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spe...

Since Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)’s arrival at Mars on 21 September 2014, the SEP (Solar Energetic Particle) instrument on board the MAVEN spacecraft has been detecting oxygen pickup ions with energies of a few tens of keV up to ~200 keV. These ions are created in the distant upstream part of the hot atomic oxygen exosphere of Mars, via photoionization, charge exchange with s...