Scientific substantiation and practical confirmation of possibility, expediency and efficiency of application of the ultrasonic superficial plastic deformation in zones of welded connections after performance of welding works is given. For this purpose a mathematical model of process of superficial plastic deformation is represent, as the hypercycle of loading consisting of elementary cycles – ...

Simulation of Dynamic Response in Materials is to construct a virtual test facility (VTF) for computing the 3D response of various target materials under compressive, tensional, and shear loadings, including loadings generated by high explosives. (For information on shock-compression experiments, see the “Shock-compression science” sidebar.) Our objective is to design a software environment tha...

Maximum likelihood factor analysis (MLFA) is applied to investigate the variables of monthly Tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures (SST) from Niño 1+2, Niño 3, Niño 3.4, and Niño 4 and precipitation over New South Wales and Queensland of eastern Australia, Kalimantan Island of Indonesia, and California and Oregon of the west coast of the United States. The monthly data used were from 1950 t...

The implied volatility of an option as a function of strike price and time to maturity forms a volatility surface. Traders price according to the dynamics of this high dimensional surface. Recent developments that employ semiparametric models approximate the implied volatility surface (IVS) in a finite dimensional function space, allowing for a low dimensional factor representation of these dyn...

We test the validity of using the regime shift theory to account for differences in environmental state of coastal lagoons as a response to variation in connectivity with the sea, using free-living nematodes as a surrogate. The study is based on sediment samples from the inner and outer portions of 15 coastal lagoons (5 open to the sea, 5 intermittently open/closed, and 5 permanently closed lak...

The chemical composition of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles, formed by the dark ozonolysis of αpinene, was characterized by a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer. The experiments were conducted using a continuous-flow chamber, allowing the particle mass loading and chemical composition to be maintained for several days. The organic portion of the particle mass loa...