In 1996 and 1997 a monitoring network was set up at the translational slide of Vallcebre. Fourteen boreholes were equipped with piezometers, wire extensometers and inclinometers. Since then groundwater levels changes and wire displacements have been automatically recorded every 20 minutes. Superficial displacements have been periodically measured with differential GPS. The monitoring network ha...

Individuals who are congenitally deafblind are presented with significant challenges when attempting to acquire language and communication skills. Since most of the information perceived is gained through direct bodily contact, cognitive processes necessary for language development remain closely connected to the body’s interaction with the environment. The embodied cognition approach, with its...

Who participated? Everyone, aged 18 and over, diagnosed with congenital deafblindness, in Denmark is included in the survey 58 individuals in total. 53 of the participants stated that the aetiology of their condition was known. The 5 without a diagnosis were all within the non-rubella group. Two thirds of the group live in residential settings for congenitally deafblind people, and the other th...

We perform an exact and asymptotic analysis of the model of n vicious walkers interacting with a wall via contact potentials, a model introduced by Brak, Essam and Owczarek. More specifically, we study the partition function of watermelon configurations which start on the wall, but may end at arbitrary height, and their mean number of contacts with the wall. We improve and extend the earlier (p...

Domestic violence is traditionally associated with cases of physical violence occurring within intimate relationships and in a domestic setting. It is most commonly perpetrated by a male against a female partner, but it also includes violence against men. Domestic violence occurs in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships and includes married, de facto and separated adolescents and adult...

We prove the GGS conjecture [GGS] (1993), which gives a particularly simple explicit quantization of classical r-matrices for Lie algebras gl(n), in terms of a matrix R ∈ Matn(C) ⊗ Matn(C) which satisfies the quantum YangBaxter equation (QYBE) and the Hecke condition, whose quasiclassical limit is r. The r-matrices were classified by Belavin and Drinfeld in the 1980’s in terms of combinatorial ...

Title: Identification of microbial indicators and free living protozoa in natural mineral water using cultural and molecular methods. Author list: Michele Totaro*, Beatrice Casini*, Paola Valentini*, Mario Miccoli°, Pier Luigi Lopalco*, Angelo Baggiani* Affiliations: *Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy. ° Department of Cl...

The web scene was created by Zhihang (Steven) Li, Michael Rodriguez, and Alec Zhang, who are students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. They were working on a special project under the guidance of Dr. Sven Fuhrmann, associate professor of Geovisualization and Geoinformation Science (GGS) at George Mason University, and Michael Piccione, faculty at Thomas Jefferson work...

What we will call the age-based TMFR is computed conventionally by adding up agespecific marital-fertility rates in the hope of estimating the number of children ever born to a woman who is married throughout her childbearing years. Demographers have long been strongly skeptical about this quantity because it normally indicates implausibly many children. Our analysis of data from the Romanian G...