As part of a series of seismic experiments designed to improve the understanding of the impact of mining blasts on verifying a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a sixteen station network of three-component seismic sensors were deployed around a large cast shot in the Black Thunder Mine. The seismic stations were placed, where possible, at a range of 2.5 kilometers with a constant inter-station spa...

In the power distribution system, missing or incorrect file of users-transformer relationship (UTR) in low-voltage station area (LVSA) will affect lean management LVSA, and operation maintenance network. To effectively improve paper proposes an identification method for UTR based on Local Selective Combination Parallel Outlier Ensembles algorithm (LSCP). Firstly, voltage data is reconstructed i...

A transfer line design problem is considered. Transfer lines are sequences of workstations equipped with processing modules called blocks each of which performs specific operations. These lines are used for mass production of one type of product and thus execute repetitively a given set of operations. The machine parts move along the stations in the same direction. An identical cost is associat...

Abstract For patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma or cancer of the gastroesophageal junction, radical esophagectomy 2-field lymphadenectomy is cornerstone multimodality treatment curative intent. Both conventional minimally invasive (MIE) and robot assisted (RAMIE) were shown to be superior compared open transthoracic considering postoperative complications. However, no randomized comparison...

Abstract LOADEST is a program for estimating constituent loads in rivers and streams developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), but it does not have Graphical User Interface (GUI) that facilitates processing of large amounts data. Therefore, we present LOAD ESTimation (LOADEST) Parallel Data Processing (LPDPI). LPDPI unique as features an easy-to-use workflow data download water quality es...

7 We apply two different algorithms to measure surface-wave phase velocity, as a function of 8 frequency, from seismic ambient noise recorded at pairs of stations from a large European 9 network. The two methods are based on consistent theoretical formulations, but differ in the 10 implementation: one method involves the time-domain cross-correlation of signal recorded 11 at different stations;...

Continuing demands for high degrees of Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) require large dispatch queues (or centralized reservation stations) in modern superscalar microprocessors. However, such large dispatch queues are inevitably accompanied by high circuit complexity which would correspondingly limit the pipeline clock rates. In other words, increasing the size of the dispatch queue ultimat...

The objectives of this project are; to demonstrate that hydrographic variability in shelf waters can be hind-cast, to a quantifiable degree, using a simple 1 dimensional physical model. To demonstrate that the model can be used to interpret the regional variability of ocean colour in terms of the mechanisms of physical forcing on phytoplankton growth. The effects of tidal front dynamics and the...

The media and TV world faces new challenges such as the introduction of digital and interactive TV. In order to cope with the complexity of these new services, a well-structured back office is of prime importance. Today, efficient management of content is hampered by the proprietary formats used in the different software applications that have been developed by various vendors. Moreover, the la...

These paper introduces a reservation subframe protocol for multimedia services in a 3rd generation mobile telecommunication system. The Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA) protocol is modified to achieve more efficient bandwidth management. Simulation results show that the resulting multiple access multimedia system can serve a large number of users with low probability of packet loss, en...