The paper aims to deliver a brief outline of the architectural development and discerned types of architecture of both Germanic and Roman origin on the territories north to the middle Danube. The four centuries of the local development was somehow disturbed during the Marcomannic wars. This large-scale conflict resulted in the Roman military occupation of the neighboring regions (Moravia, South...

Images of outdoor scenes often contain degradation due to haze, resulting in contrast reduction and color fading. For many reasons one may need to remove these effects. Unfortunately, haze removal is a difficult problem due the inherent ambiguity between the haze and the underlying scene. Furthermore, all images contain some noise due to sensor (measurement) error that can be amplified in the h...

Dark pools are equity trading systems that do not publicly display orders. Orders in dark pools are matched within the exchange bid-ask spread without a guarantee of execution. Informed traders are more likely to cluster on the heavy side of the market and therefore face a lower execution probability in the dark pool, relative to uninformed traders. Consequently, exchanges are more attractive t...

The thermodynamics of self-assembling systems are discussed in terms of the chemical interactions and the intermolecular forces between species. It is clear that there are both theoretical and practical limitations on the dimensions and the structural regularity of these systems. These considerations are made with reference to the microphase separation that occurs in block copolymer (BCP) syste...

Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, 3 and Brian Shuve Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 ...

Using the field theoretical approach introduced by Cremades, Ibáñez and Marchesano for describing open strings attached to D9 branes having different magnetizations, we give a procedure for determining the Kähler metrics of those open strings in toroidal compactifications. Work partially supported by the European Community’s Human Potential Programme under contract MRTN-CT-2004-005104 “Constitu...

The current coronavirus pandemic forces us to realize the significance of the careful utilization of financial and health-care resources. At the same time, it is important to ensure the ability of urologists to function through this crisis to provide essential and emergency services. With regards to urological procedures, a triage of non-emergent operations is hence recommended considering vari...