CAMENEN, B. and LARSON, M., 2008. A general formula for noncohesive suspended sediment transport. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(3), 615–627. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. A simple and robust suspended load transport formula for noncohesive sediment is presented for application to river, estuarine, and coastal environments with the use of depth-averaged models. The formula is base...

We investigated whether presenting of dilutions of phenyl ethyl alcohol at random succession according to the method of constant stimuli can replace the standard procedure of presenting a various number of dilutions in a staircase paradigm. Forty-six men and 44 women, aged 19-76 years, participated in this study. Phenyl ethyl alcohol was diluted in a ratio of 1:2, starting from 4%. Presentation...

[1] Six Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITP), deployed in the central Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2007, have provided detailed potential temperature and salinity measurements of a double-diffusive staircase at about 200–300 m depth. Individual layers in the staircase are of order 1 m in vertical height but appear to extend horizontally for hundreds of kilometers, with along-layer ...

Staircase tableaux are combinatorial objects which appear as key tools in the study of the PASEP physical model. The aim of this work is to show how the discovery of a tree structure in staircase tableaux is a significant feature to derive properties on these objects.

An ascending (resp., descending) staircase walk on a chessboard is a rook’s path that goes either right or up (resp., down) in each step. We show that the minimum number of staircase walks that together visit every square of an n× n chessboard is d 3ne .

The Chevreul illusion is a well-known 19(th) century brightness illusion, comprising adjacent homogeneous grey bands of different luminance, which are perceived as inhomogeneous. It is generally explained by lateral inhibition, according to which brighter areas projected to the retina inhibit the sensitivity of neighbouring retinal areas. Lateral inhibition has been considered the foundation-st...

This work is dedicated to the design, analysis and optimization of Application-Level Forward Erasure Correction (AL-FEC) codes. In particular, we explore a class of Generalized LDPC (GLDPC) codes, named GLDPC-Staircase codes, involving the LDPCStaircase code (base code) as well as Reed-Solomon (RS) codes (outer codes). In the first part of this thesis, we start by showing that RS codes having “...

The physical causes of coastal flooding due to marine storms are discussed. We examine the costs and impacts of storm surges and waves with reference to the UK. The mechanisms of interaction between waves and the mean circulation due to tides and wind are reviewed. A case study to illustrate the magnitude of surges, waves and their interactions is presented for Liverpool Bay in the eastern Iris...