ANDRILL completed its first season in 2006-07 drilling AND-1B through the McMurdo Ice Shelf (MIS) to a depth of 1,285m below the sea floor, a record for Antarctic margin drilling, with 99% recovery. The alternating glacial-interglacial sediment packages interbedded with volcanics provide a uniquely detailed record of Antarctic glacial and climatic change through the Neogene. This paper summariz...

In [4] an algorithm is presented for analytic phase margin control design. Without special care, however, the compensator computed with this algorithm may not be a real rational function. The problem is evident when the plant has real unstable poles. In this case the algorithm in [4] requires a mapping of real points into complex values, and it is not clear that the resulting compensator has re...

In this document we give a short overview of the reasons why Rijndael should be selected as the AES. We have divided our arguments into four categories: • Security: Rijndael has the same objective security level as the other finalists, and can easily be implemented in a secure way. • Efficiency: Rijndael has a large "performance margin" compared to the other candidates. • Design philosophy: The...

1 The central problem in the case of face detectors is to build a face class model. We present a method for face class modeling in the eigenfaces space using a large-margin classifier like SVM. Two main issues are addressed: what is the required number of eigenfaces to achieve a good classification rate and how to train the SVM for a good generalization. As the experimental evidence show, gener...

Sauer’s Lemma is extended to classes HN of binary-valued functions h on [n] = {1, . . . , n} which have a margin less than or equal to N on all x ∈ [n] with h(x) = 1, where the margin μh(x) of h at x ∈ [n] is defined as the largest non-negative integer a such that h is constant on the interval Ia(x) = [x− a, x+ a] ⊆ [n]. Estimates are obtained for the cardinality of classes of binary valued fun...

high and increasing beef marketing margin leads one to controversy about factors affecting it. this study using the monthly data for the 1998-2005 period to investigate the market power and to estimate how farm and marketing services supplies and retail demand determinants can affect beef marketing margin. the results show that farm, marketing services and retail level prices and thereby ma...

Flexible virtual capacitance control (FVCC) for converter can improve the stability and dynamics of DC bus voltage, but among multiple converters, essential inertia distribution is capable optimizing performance. To rationality distribution, a collaborative (VCCC) strategy energy storage units (ESUs) proposed. Firstly, system required total adjusted according to each individual battery's rated ...

In this study, one group of respondents is offered to purchase a safety device to be installed in their cars, while another group is offered a public safety, program (improved road quality) which results in the same size risk reduction. In terms of the value of a statistical life, our results are very, reasonable. However, the WTP for the private safety device is higher than the WTP for the pub...

One key role of elections is to allow voters to remove politicians who perform poorly in office. We analyze the extent to which incumbents who are involved in relatively serious political scandals lose elections. More importantly, we assess the relative importance of primary and general elections in removing such incumbents. How often do incumbents involved in relatively serious scandals lose i...

This paper examines the dynamic fault behavior of asynchronous sequential machines, specifically identifying the faults which cause critical races and hazards, and presents a state assignment technique leading to a machine that enters one of a small set of error states whenever a fault occurs. Entry into an error state can be checked by very simple check circuits; a self-testing check circuit a...