Abstract. The Petermann 2015 expedition to Fjord and adjacent Hall Basin recovered a transect of cores, extending from Nares Strait underneath the 48 km long ice tongue glacier, offering unique opportunity study ice–ocean–sea interactions at interface these realms. First results suggest that no existed in for large parts Holocene, raising question role ocean marine cryosphere collapse re-establ...

Background Scorpions are among the world's venomous arthropods, they sting humans every year, suffering painful symptoms or losing their lives because of the venom. Odontobuthus doriae Thorell 1876 (Arachnida: Scorpionida: Buthidae) is a scorpion of medical importance and therefore its geographical distribution in Isfahan Province has been studied. Methods This descriptive cross-sectional stu...

The topic of the present work is the specification of system Fault Tolerance (FT). FT is considered a valid technique for increasing the dependability of critical automation systems by adding them the ability to operate in presence of faults. Two basic considerations stimulated the development of the present work. Firstly although a considerable amount of concepts and theory have been published...

We present the first detection of the mean flux of the optical extragalactic background light (EBL) at 3000, 5500, and 8000Å. Diffuse foreground flux at these wavelengths comes from terrestrial airglow, dust– scattered sunlight (zodiacal light), and dust–scattered Galactic starlight (diffuse Galactic light). We have avoided the brightest of these, terrestrial airglow, by measuring the absolute ...

We have used the Hubble Space Telescope Wide–Field and Planetary Camera 2, in combination with ground–based spectroscopy, to measure the integrated flux of galaxies at optical wavelengths — the extragalactic background light (EBL). We have also computed the integrated light from individual galaxy counts in the images used to measure the EBL and in the Hubble Deep Field. We find that flux in gal...

| We describe a suite of 5500 test positions for testing chess playing programs. They are available as pub/wds/ChessTest.tar.Z by anonymous ftp to external.NJ.NEC.COM. Almost all of these positions are unoriginal and were obtained by scanning in diagrams from chessbooks with an optical scanner. Gnuchess 4.0, at one minute per move on a 50 MHz MIPS R4000, scores 16-71% on our testtles. We descri...

In this letter, we derive an efficient audio/video synchronization method for video telephony. For synchronization, this method does not require any further RTCP packet processing except for the first one. The derived decision rule is far more compact than the conventional method. This decision rule is incorporated in an actual video telephony system adopting Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP 1510 pr...