MEWORK DI SVILUPPO BASATI SUL CONCETTO DI MODELLO/VISTA/CONTROLLO [1] ED IN PARTICOLARE LA PIATTAFORMA RAILS [2], CHE, ANCHE GRAZIE ALL'INTEGRAZIONE CON LE SOLUZIONI AJAX [3], CONSENTE DI CREARE APPLICAZIONI PIÙ ERGONOMICHE, INTERATTIVE ED ACCESSIBILI (IN QUANTO NON DIPENDENTI DA TECNOLOGIE PROPRIETARIE). TRA I SITI AUTOREVOLI CHE SI SONO CONVERTITI A RAILS, TROVIAMO A LIST APART [4], DA SEMPRE...

The CubeSail is a nano-Solar Sail based on the 3U CubeSat standard currently being built at the Surrey Space Centre. The CubeSail mission aims to demonstrate the concept of solar sailing and at its end-of-life use the sail membrane for de-orbiting. One of the main challenges in the design of any Solar Sail is the deployment mechanism. This paper proposes a deployment mechanism for the CubeSail....

Operating complexity, especially in the determination of cut-off values and the associated spatial variation, has been a long time standing problem for indicator kriging (IK) mineral reserves estimation method. In order to solve this problem, this text proposes an alternative method to implement IK reserves estimation in computer software. In this solution, threshold values of IK are dynamicall...

The sexual differences can be determined through morphological characteristics found in the ramus and body of mandible. The accuracy in determining sex is variable and the degree of sexual dimorphism in mandibles is different for each population. The aim of this study was to analyse nonmetric morphological characteristics of mandibles in adult Brazilian individuals, determining the anatomical v...

Recent results on the incidence of red galaxies in a > 100 square arcminute field galaxy survey to K = 20 and a K = 22 survey of the Hubble Deep Field are presented. We argue that a simple photometric redshift indicator, based on J−K color and supported by spectroscopic results obtained with Keck, gives a reliable lower limit of ∼ 25% for the fraction of z > 1 galaxies in the 100 square arcminu...

The classical approach for road network generalization consists of producing multiple maps, for a different scale or purpose, from a single detailed data source and quite often roads are represented by line objects. Our target is the generalization of a road network for the whole scale range from large scale, where roads are represented as area objects, to mid and small scales, where roads are ...

It’s not clear what ‘indicator variables’ are: rephrasing for clarity would be useful. NDS response to reviewer: These ‘indicator’ or proxy variables for biochemical measurement of VAD are mentioned in the background section and are not essential for the abstract. The sentence has been deleted.

Investor sentiment index based on actual trader positions is useful for forecasting S&P 500 index futures returns. We find that large speculator sentiment is a price continuation indicator, whereas large hedger sentiment is a weak contrary indicator. Small trader sentiment does not forecast returns. We show that extreme levels and the combination of extreme levels of sentiments of the two types...

A laboratory based microcosm study was undertaken to determine the persistence of the faecal indicator organism Escherichia coli in coastal recreational water and sediment under varying environmental conditions. Intact sediment cores were taken from three distinct coastal sites in the Adelaide metropolitan area and the overlying water was inoculated with known concentrations of E. coli. The con...

Increasing water use and droughts, along with climate variability and land use change, have seriously altered vegetation growth patterns and ecosystem response in several regions alongside the Andes Mountains. Thirty years of the new generation biweekly normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI3g) time series data show significant land cover specific trends and variability in annual producti...