When we talk about environmental justice, we mean calling a halt to the poisoning of our poorest communities, from our rural areas to our inner cities. We don’t have a person to waste and pollution clearly wastes human lives and natural resources. When our children’s lives are no longer damaged by lead poisoning, we will stop wasting the energy and intelligence that could build a stronger and m...

Industries such as telecomm and avionics have long enjoyed a perk that most other industries do not enjoy: access to accurate operational profiles. Most other industries are left hypothesizing about how they believe the majority of their users will interact with a particular software package. If these guesses are wrong, reliability predictions based on the guesses will likely be wrong as well. ...

We report evidence for a significant increase of bulk dislocation density upon poling of polycrystalline BaTiO3. The synchrotron high-resolution x-ray-diffraction measurements yield a dislocation density on the order of 10/cm and an associated strain-energy increase of about 20 kJ/m. This implies that the application of an external poling field generates defects in the structure and increases t...

Calls for „holistic‟ responses to halt the increasing imprisonment of women are continually reiterated. Solutions are sought which aim to be both „gender-responsive‟ and „community-based‟, however the absence of meaningful definitions of „community‟ and „holistic‟ means that superficial responses are often put in place in response to failures of the system. Taking as an example one attempt to i...

In this study the focus is on the role of local communities in the management of protected areas with the expectation that without the cooperation and assistance of local communities achieving biodiversity conservation in places where the land and resources are fundamental to supporting people’s livelihoods will be less successful than if the local people actively support this goal. Management ...

To obtain the characteristic life of a chain tool magazine and automatic tool changer under normal working condition, a small-sample accelerated life test method was developed. The inverse power law model and small-sample virtual augmented theory was applied while taking vibration as the accelerated stress. The accelerated life test of the automatic tool changer was carried out under different ...

This paper presents experimental evidence that gestural planning systems associated with stressed syllables are more highly activated than ones associated with unstressed syllables. A stop-signal experiment was conducted to investigate how syllable stress and metrical structure influence the ability to halt speech in mid-utterance. Subjects produced three sentences with controlled metrical patt...

We provide a novel accelerated first-order method that achieves the asymptotically optimal con-vergence rate for smooth functions in the first-order oracle model. To this day, Nesterov’s AcceleratedGradient Descent (agd) and variations thereof were the only methods achieving acceleration in thisstandard blackbox model. In contrast, our algorithm is significantly different from a...

ZERO SPEED OR MOTION DETECTION Motion detection is a valuable resource for improving productivity in many plants. As production speeds increase and more sophisticated assembly lines and conveyor systems are used, there is a greater need to monitor and control conveyor speed. This is particularly true since there are more motors, transmissions and belts that can fail, causing the system to halt....