One of the biggest successes of the standard Big Bang cosmology is the prediction of the existence and black body nature of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Observations and measurements of the CMB radiation by COBE (COsmic Background Explorer), WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) and Planck show an almost isotropic blackbody radiation with temperature TCMB = 2.726 ± 0.010 K (Mather e...

!%" The Vogar Fissure Swarm is one of four en-echelon fracture swarms that connect the !&" Reykjanes Ridge to the South Iceland Seismic Zone and the Western Volcanic Zone. !'" Occurring in an area of flat topography, this fissure swarm is clearly visible at the surface, !(" where it can be seen to affect recent postglacial lavas. Using remote sensing methods to !)" identify and measure all the ...

We introduce new OWL ontologies for observations and sampling features, based on the O&M conceptual model from OGC and ISO 19156. Previous efforts, (a) through the W3C SSN project, and (b) following ISO rules for conversion from UML, had dependencies on elaborate pre-existing ontologies and frameworks. The new ontologies, known as om-lite and sam-lite, remove such dependencies, and can therefor...

Objective(s): The purpose of this study was to investigate the change in plasma anandamide (AEA) levels throughout the normal menstrual cycle, and to analyze the relationship among AEA, sex steroids and gonadotrophins. Materials and Methods: The patients were fertile women with normal menstrual cycle, proposed to get in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment due to oviduct obstruction or male infe...

Motivated by a high Spitzer IRAC oversubscription rate, we present a new technique of randomly and sparsely sampling the phase curves of hot Jupiters. Snapshot phase curves are enabled by technical advances in precision pointing as well as careful characterization of a portion of the central pixel on the array. This method allows for observations which are a factor of approximately two more eff...

recently, the al2o3–tio2–zro2 system has found valuable applications, particularly, as a support for nox storage–reduction (nsr) catalysts. nanocomposite powders were prepared from the co-precipitation method in inorganic precursors. the behaviors of mixed oxide nanoparticles under ultrasonic irradiation, such as dispersion, and crushing were studied. phase transformations, crystallite size, an...