Management of soils to reduce the amount of PM10 emitted during agricultural tillage operations is important for attainment of air quality standards in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV). The purpose of this study was to improve and expand upon earlier work of predicting tillage-generated dust emissions based on soil properties. We focus on gravimetric soil water content (GWC) and soil textu...

Safe disposal of nuclear waste is an important environmental challenge. Several countries are investigating deep geological disposal as a long-term solution for their high-level waste. In Belgium, the Oligocene Boom Clay is the reference host formation for research purposes and for the safety and feasibility assessment of the deep disposal of high-level and/or long-lived radioactive waste. The ...

ÐSorption and transformation of 1-naphthol by a K-smectite (K-SWy-2) were studied using batch sorption isotherms, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The sorbents included three preparations of the reference smectite clay (SWy-2): (1) whole clay containing naturally occurring carbonate impurities, (2) SWy-2 with the removal of carbonate impurities, and (...

We study domain monotonicity of the principal eigenvalue λ1 (α) corresponding to ∆u = λ(α)u in Ω, ∂u ∂ν = αu on ∂Ω, with Ω ⊂ Rn a C0,1 bounded domain, and α a fixed real. We show that contrary to intuition domain monotonicity might hold if one of the two domains is a ball.

The paper deals with the well–posedness of the problem 8 >< >: utt −∆u = 0 in R× Ω, utt = kuν on R× Γ, u(0, x) = u0(x), ut(0, x) = v0(x) in Ω, where u = u(t, x), t ∈ R, x ∈ Ω, ∆ = ∆x denotes the Laplacian operator respect to the space variable, Ω is a bounded regular (C∞) open domain of RN (N ≥ 1), Γ = ∂Ω, ν is the outward normal to Ω, k is a constant. We prove that it is ill–posed if N ≥ 2, wh...

Let M either be a closed real analytic Riemannian manifold or a closed C∞-Riemannian surface. We estimate from below the volume of a nodal domain component in an arbitrary ball, provided that this component enters the ball deeply enough.

The article presents the steps required to reconstruct a 3D trajectory of a golf ball flight, bounces and roll in short game. Two video cameras were used to capture the last parts of the trajectories including the bounces and roll. Each video sequence is processed and the ball is detected and tracked until is stops. Detected positions from both video sequences are then matched and 3D trajectory...

Recently there has been great deal of interest in making system that enables an audience to view sports event from any arbitrary viewpoint. The rapid development of networks and computers will soon make it possible to provide a form of real-time video that allows the viewer to select any desired view of the action. This paper introduces a novel method for generating an arbitrary view of a scene...

This paper presents 53 well-documented cases of the short-term set-up of open-ended steel pipe piles driven at two fields in the North Sea. Increases in soil resistance during driving (set-up) were observed when pile driving was re-started after delays typically ranging between 24 h and 100 h. The soil encountered at the sites consisted of overconsolidated sands and clays, where the clays varie...