Dispersion in working teams has been addressed by earlier research mostly in terms of the physical distance that separated team members. In more recent work, however, the focus has been shifting towards understanding the influence of a newer construct: that of temporal dispersion (TD). The study of TD is so far constrained mostly to conceptual work, and the study of its association with distrib...

A systematic procedure for sensitivity analysis of a case study in the area of air pollution modeling has been performed. Contemporary mathematical models should include a large set of chemical and photochemical reactions to be established as a reliable simulation tool. The Unified Danish Eulerian Model is in the focus of our investigation as one of the most advanced large-scale mathematical mo...

Mr. Crockett: May I make an analogy and see whether it conveys any insights? In the finance field, we think of technology and liberalization as having driven the enormous changes in financial markets. Technology enables the better pricing of risk; liberalization allows risk to be more efficiently managed and traded. Could one say that something similar is taking place in labor markets? Technolo...

The radiative electroweak symmetry breaking, the unification of third-generation Yukawa couplings, and flavor-changing rare decay are investigated in two types of supersymmetric SO(10) scenarios taking into account of the effects of neutrino physics, i.e. the observed large generation mixing and tiny mass scale. The first scenario is minimal, including right-handed neutrinos at intermediate sca...

We present an analysis of the color-magnitude-velocity dispersion relation for a sample of 39320 earlytype galaxies within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We demonstrate that the color-magnitude relation is entirely a consequence of the fact that both the luminosities and colors of these galaxies are correlated with stellar velocity dispersions. Previous studies of the color-magnitude relation ov...

A reliable relationship of stoker performance to burnout is one which engineers and scientists will be struggling with for a fairly lengthy period of time. At the present state of the art, a minimum of knowledge is available, and it is impossible to develop any numer­ ical applications for a specific relationship. One of the most spurious shortcomings in the development of a burnout relationshi...

High energy γ-ray astronomy has been established during the last decade through the launch of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) and the success of its ground-based counterpart, the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. In the aftermath of their important and surprising scientific results a worldwide effort developing and designing new generation atmospheric Cherenkov detectors is unde...

Distributed applications execute in environments that can include different network architectures as well as a range of compute platforms. Furthermore, these resources are shared by many users. Therefore these applications receive varying levels of service from the environment. Since the availability of resources in a networked environment often determines overall application performance, adapt...

Air pollution has a direct impact to human health, and data-driven air quality models are useful for evaluating population exposure to air pollutants. In this paper, we propose a novel region-based Gaussian process model for estimating urban air pollution dispersion, and applied it to a large dataset of ultrafine particle (UFP) measurements collected from a network of sensors located on several...

During the early morning hours on April 29, 2000, a time series of ozone observations from several stations showed that a unique and exceptional ozone episode occurred in Madrid city and surrounding areas, whereby monitoring stations reported ozone concentrations up to 1190 mg/m. In order to investigate this phenomenon, two different air quality modeling approaches are used here: U The FLEXTRA ...