a microgravity survey was conducted for detecting the sink-holes at site of a power plant. pits, man-made tunnels and canals were considered as topographical effects and were corrected. to show the capability of the method two sites in a power plant have been surveyed for existing areas which can be affected by sink-holes overnight. ground shakes due to the running facilities were also preventi...

In wireless sensor network (WSN) the use of mobile sink has been attracting more attention in recent times. Mobile sinks are more effective means of balancing load, reducing hotspot problem and elongating network lifetime. The sensor nodes in WSN have limited power supply, computational capability and storage and therefore for continuous data delivery reliability becomes high priority in these ...

We study competition between two biological species advected by a compressible velocity field. Individuals are treated as discrete Lagrangian particles that reproduce or die in a density-dependent fashion. In the absence of a velocity field and fitness advantage, number fluctuations lead to a coarsening dynamics typical of the stochastic Fisher equation. We investigate three examples of compres...

The UWSN has found their place in many applications like sea exploration, flood detection and many more. The sensor nodes used in UWSN are installed with specialized depth sensors to compute the depth value of itself with respect to sink that is deployed at the surface. Obviously, to transfer data by sensor nodes to sink, some routing protocol is necessary for communication. There are many rout...

Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) are used to monitor and control the physical environment in different classes of applications. Due to the dense deployment of sensors and as the sensor observations are spatially correlated with respect to location of sensor nodes, it is not necessary for every sensor to transmit its data. Therefore, because the resource constraints of nodes, it is necessary to s...

Little is known about in-canopy processes that may alter forest–atmosphere exchanges of trace gases and aerosols. To improve our understanding of in-canopy mixing, we use large-eddy simulation to study the effect of scalar source/sink distributions on scalar concentration moments, fluxes, and correlation coefficients within and above an ideal forest canopy. Scalars are emitted from: (1) the gro...

We present Obstacle-aware Virtual Circuit geographic Routing (OVCR), a novel routing mechanism for obstacle-aware wireless sensor networks that uses the obstacle-free path computed by the sink to make the greedy forwarding of geographic routing dependable. OVCR discovers obstacle-free paths by the powerful sink as obstacles are detected. To bypass obstacles, the information of obstacle-free pat...

The one-dimensional current-source density method was used to analyze laminar field potential profiles evoked in rat olfactory bulb slices by stimulation in the olfactory nerve (ON) layer or mitral cell layer (MCL) and to identify the field potential generators and the characteristics of synaptic activity in this network. Single pulses to the ON evoked a prolonged (>/=400 ms) sink (S1ON) in the...

In this paper, we study the approximability of the capacitated network design problem (Cap-NDP) on undirected graphs: GivenG = (V,E) with non-negative costs c and capacities u on its edges, sourcesink pairs (si, ti) with demand ri, the goal is to find the minimum cost subgraph where the minimum (si, ti) cut with u-capacities is at least ri. When u ≡ 1, we get usual SNDP for which Jain gave a 2-...