Derelict fishing gear is a highly visible source of marine plastic pollution, causing mortality and ecosystem degradation with uncertain long-term consequences. The quantity derelict entering the oceans remains unknown because heterogeneity in effort, as well inadequate monitoring. Prior studies have been limited scope to specific fisheries regions, large-scale estimates lack an empirical basis...

Excessive coupling between object-oriented classes is widely acknowledged as a maintenance problem that can result in a higher propensity for faults in systems and a ‘stored up’ future problem. This paper explores the relationship between ‘fan-in’ and ‘fan-out’ coupling metrics over multiple versions of opensource software. More specifically, the relationship between the two metrics is explored...

The Gröbner fan of an ideal I ⊂ k[x1, . . . , xn], defined by Mora and Robbiano, is a complex of polyhedral cones in Rn. The maximal cones of the fan are in bijection with the distinct monomial initial ideals of I as the term order varies. If I is homogeneous the Gröbner fan is complete and is the normal fan of the state polytope of I. In general the Gröbner fan is not complete and therefore no...

Nick Green details the shift from industry to art in examining the origins of East London’s studio blocks Phenomena generate myths, and like any phenomenon, a mythology has grown up around the East End arts scene which clouds the facts, ignores the complexities and leans heavily upon oversimplification. That much, one might expect. More worrying is that the very process of creating the legend d...

Peng Xi county, Sichuan province, the Bao Fan temple mural digitization survey mapping project: we use three-dimensional laserscanning, multi-baseline definition digital photography, multi-spectral digital image acquisition and other technologies for digital survey mapping. The purpose of this project is to use modern mathematical reconnaissance mapping means to obtain accurate mural shape, col...

Radiocarbon dating of late Quaternary deposits and shorelines of Lake Mojave and cation-ratio numerical age dating of stone pavements (Dorn. 1984) on the adjacent Soda Mountains piedmont provide age constraints for alluvial and eolian deposits. These deposits are associated with climatically controlled stands of Lake Mojave during the past 15.000 yr. Six alluvial fan units and three eolian stra...

The aim of the current research is to measure objective congruence (incongruence) of the results obtained in a process of multiple criteria analysis when applying different MCDM methods. The methodology for evaluation of ranking results is developed on the ground of a case study of the redevelopment of derelict buildings as well as on composed experimental tasks. Fuzzified COPRAS, TOPSIS and VI...

Ahmedabad, India’s sixth largest city, saw widespread religious violence in 2002. Using detailed neighborhood level data we show that riot incidence is positively predicted by a neighborhood’s proximity to the, by now largely derelict, textile mills. Mill neighborhoods also exhibit higher levels of religious integration, a fact we trace to the historical religious heterogeneity in the mill work...

hat has ocular electromyography done for the clinician? It has unnecessarily confused him, and made him unnecessarily insecure in not always having access to this very limited clinical tool. I hope to make the clinical ophthalmologist secure and content in the knowledge that he will not be derelict in the clinical management of usual motility problems without this formidable, sometimes painful,...