Drăguşanu and Tanaka (1999) provide intriguing new chemical and isotopic analyses of amphibolites and gneisses from the Cumpăna Group, the oldest lithostratigraphic unit in the Getic-Supragetic unit of the South Carpathians (Balintoni 1975; Pana 1994). Ten amphibolite whole-rock data points form a linear trend in a plot of measured Nd/Nd against Sm/Nd (Drăguşanu and Tanaka 1999, fig. 3). Drăguş...

Yahoo! is building a set of scalable, highly-available data storage and processing services, and deploying them in a cloud model to make application development and ongoing maintenance significantly easier. In this paper we discuss the vision and requirements, as well as the components that will go into the cloud. We highlight the challenges and research questions that arise from trying to buil...

Coherence is an important parameter to measure InSAR data quality in repeat-pass interferometry and soil moisture change can cause de-correlation. Relation between coherence and soil moisture was examined in this paper by using the ERS-1 interferometry pairs on Cangzhou area for which there are some heavy rain between the acquisition dates of the two images. The soil moisture is obtained based ...

Using data collected from 62 coastal stations worldwide from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) from 2002-2011, accuracy assessments are made for coastal aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrieved from MODIS aboard the Aqua satellite. It is found that coastal AODs (at 550 nm) characterized respectively by the MODIS Dark Land (Land) surface algorithm, the Open Ocean (Ocean) algorithm, and AERONET ...

Consider the observation of n iid realizations of an experiment with d ≥ 2 possible outcomes, which corresponds to a single observation of a multinomial distribution Md(n, p) where p is an unknown discrete distribution on {1, . . . , d}. In many applications in Biology, Medicine, Physics, and Engineering, the construction of a confidence region for p when n is small is crucial. This challenging...

In this paper we propose a new key predistribution scheme for wireless sensor networks in which the sensors are arranged in a square grid. We describe how Costas arrays can be used for key predistribution in these networks, then define distinct difference configurations, a more general structure that provides a flexible choice of parameters in such schemes. We give examples of distinct differen...

We introduce a novel centrality metric, the neighbor vector centrality. It is a measurement of node importance with respect to the degree distribution of the node neighbors. This centrality is explored in the context of several networks. We use attack vulnerability simulation to compared our approach with three standard centrality approaches. While for real-world network our method outperforms ...

In this note, a characterization of the Gumbel's bivariate exponential distribution based on the properties of the conditional moments is discussed. The result forms a sort of bivariate analogue of the characterization of the univariate exponential distribution given by Sahobov and Geshev (1974) (cited in Lau and Rao ((1982), Sankhya Ser. A , 44, 87)). A discrete version of the property provide...

things) concept is in the process of developing, maturation, and standardization. This concept aims to interconnect all things from daily life to the Internet as part of the Internet of the Future. IoT concept caught the attention of the industrial environments in order to develop the develop factories of the future. For this reason there were defined the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) an...