Stem thermocouple hygrometers were subjected to transient and stable thermal gradients while in contact with reference solutions of NaCl. Both dew point and psychrometric voltages were directly related to zero offset voltages, the latter reflecting the size of the thermal gradient. Although slopes were affected by absolute temperature, they were not affected by water potential. One hygrometer r...

We investigate classical anomalous electrical transport in a driven, resistively, and capacitively shunted Josephson junction device. Intriguing transport phenomena are identified in chaotic regimes when the junction is subjected to both a time-periodic ac and a constant biasing dc current. The dependence of the voltage across the junction on the dc exhibits a rich diversity of anomalous transp...

One of the most beautiful theories of condensed matter is certainly the theory of conventional superconductivity. Called the BCS theory after the names of the creators (Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer), it explains the zero resistance appearing in particular materials when their temperature approaches absolute zero. In the BCS theory, electrons are bound together by an attractive interaction and...

We prove that the algorithm for desingularization of algebraic varieties in characteristic zero of the first two authors is functorial with respect to regular morphisms. For this purpose, we show that, in characteristic zero, a regular morphism with connected affine source can be factored into a smooth morphism, a ground-field extension and a generic-fibre embedding. Every variety of characteri...

The resul ts of previous studies showed a possibili ty of application of zero-crossing rates as parameters for speech and speaker recognition The paper presents a method for obtaining these parameters and the resul ts of experiments carried out in order to estimate the absolute and relative discriminating power of zero-crossing parameters in speech and speaker recogni tion. As a basic test mate...

Element-by-element we have combined the optical components in the three 2MASS cameras, and incorporated detector quantum efficiency curves and site-specific atmospheric transmissions, to create three relative spectral response curves (RSRs). We provide the absolute 2MASS attributes associated with " zero magnitude " in the JHK s bands so that these RSRs may be used for synthetic photometry. The...