abstract one of the most important sources of drinking and agricultural water needs is rivers. one of the oldest methods of getting water from rivers that still has the greatest use is the gravity intake. in this type of intake, due to the disproportionate velocity at the upstream and downstream mouth of intake, occur flow separation and following sedimentation at the upstream mouth. in this st...

We show that light propagation in a group of degenerate modes of a multi-mode optical fiber in the presence of random mode coupling is described by a multi-component Manakov equation, thereby making multi-mode fibers the first reported physical system that admits true multi-component soliton solutions. The nonlinearity coefficient appearing in the equation is expressed rigorously in terms of th...

We define physical machines as processors with physical memory and swap memory; in user mode physical machines support address translation. We report about the formal verification of a complex processor supporting address translation by means of a memory management unit (MMU). We give a paper and pencil proof that physical machines together with appropriate page fault handlers simulate virtual ...

this paper presents a systematic approach based on eigenstructure assignment to determine the mode shape and transient response of a STATCOM utilized as an exciter for induction generators (IG). A physical control scheme, including four control loops: ac voltage, dc voltage, ac active current and ac reactive current controllers, is pre-specified for the STATCOM. A synthetic algorithm is propose...

Teaching physical security can be difficult since classes generally do not have access to physical structures to assess. The purpose of this study was to investigate a new way of teaching physical security using Second Life and to see if there is a difference in performance related to mode of instruction. The research question sought to determine whether there was a significant difference in st...

We present a detailed study of spatially propagating waves in a discontinuous Galerkin scheme applied to a system of linear hyperbolic equations. We start with an eigensolution analysis of the semi-discrete system in one space dimension with uniform grids. It is found that, for any given order of the basis functions, there are at most two spatially propagating numerical wave modes for each phys...

BACKGROUND Walking to school is associated with higher levels of physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between school travel mode and physical activity using a sampling frame that purposefully locates schools in varying neighbourhoods. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 785 children (10.57 ± 0.7 years) in Toronto, Canada. Physical activity was measured by...

BACKGROUND Children who use active modes of travel (walking or cycling) to school are more physically active than those who use passive (motorised) modes. However, less is known on whether a change in mode of travel to school is associated with a change in children's physical activity levels. The purpose of this analysis was to investigate the association between change in mode of travel to sch...