As emission regulations for large two-stroke marine Diesel engines increase as well, the manufacturers face similar problems small-sized engine builders. The fuel injection, spray formation and subsequent combustion process remain among main drivers emissions of direct-injection, compression-ignition internal engines. Since injection nozzle design differs significantly, not only in size but esp...

Studies on counter-electrojet currents (CEJ) using ground data revealed that this current could occur simultaneously among locations are less than 30° longitude apart. In our work, the symmetricity of CEJ variation between west and east Southeast Asia, separated by ~25°, was preliminarily examined according to its types: morning (MCEJ) afternoon (ACEJ). Since most past studies had overlooked oc...

Flow features of a meandering river can vary seasonally and widely in the boreal zone, as seasonal variation discharges affect properties meander bends spatial location flow magnitudes. However, better understanding impacts consecutive high-discharge events zone requires further analyses. Thus, fluvial processes their magnitudes on different types (e.g., sinuosity, symmetricity) were analysed t...

The molecular environments in the crystal of two dibenzoylnaphthalene derivatives, having similar formulas with a difference only one substituent, that is, 2-hydroxy group and 2-ethoxy group, were comparatively investigated respect to types weak interactions, using an X-ray structural study reinforced by Hirshfeld surface analysis two-dimensional plotting normalised interatomic distance crossin...

The boundary knot method (BKM) is a recent boundary-type radial basis function (RBF) collocation scheme for general PDE’s. Like the method of fundamental solution (MFS), the RBF is employed to approximate the inhomogeneous terms via the dual reciprocity principle. Unlike the MFS, the method uses a non-singular general solution instead of a singular fundamental solution to evaluate the homogeneo...

Users of myoelectric prostheses can often find them difficult to control. This can lead to passive-use of the device or total rejection, which can have detrimental effects on the contralateral limb due to overuse. Current clinically available prostheses are "open loop" systems, and although considerable effort has been focused on developing biofeedback to "close the loop," there is evidence fro...

This thesis investigates the evaluation of automatic and manual text segmentation. Text segmentation is the process of placing boundaries within text to create segments according to some task-dependent criterion. An example of text segmentation is topical segmentation, which aims to segment a text according to the subjective definition of what constitutes a topic. A number of automatic segmente...

The scheme for construction of distances, presented in our previous paper quant-ph/0005087, v.1 (Ref. 1) is amended. The formulation of Proposition 1 of Ref. 1 does not ensure the triangle inequality, therefore some of the functionals D(a, b) in Ref. 1 are in fact quasi-distances. In this note we formulate sufficient conditions for a functional D(a, b) of the (squared) form D(a, b) 2 = f (a) 2 ...

Dynamic Logics (DLs) form a large family of nonclassical logics, and perhaps the one enjoying the widest range of applications. Indeed, they are designed to formalize change caused by actions of diverse nature: updates on the memory state of a computer, displacements of moving robots in an environment, measurements in models of quantum physics, belief revisions, knowledge updates, etc. In each ...