Based on the results of previous phytosociological works, one concerning Tuscan Quercus petraea forests, another Apennine communities belonging to Mulgedio-Aconitetea, and changes provided in 4th edition International Code Phytosociological Nomenclature, four association names are here validated lectotype Senecionion samniti alliance designated.

The seventh edition of the Placing Task at MediaEval focuses on two challenges: (1) estimation-based placing, which addresses estimating the geographic location where a photo or video was taken, and (2) verification-based placing, which addresses verifying whether a photo or video was indeed taken at a pre-specified geographic location. Like the previous edition, we made the organizer baselines...

We introduce a new open-source toolkit for the well-tie or wavelet extraction problem of estimating seismic wavelets from seismic data, time-to-depth information, and well-log suites. The wavelet extraction model is formulated as a Bayesian inverse problem, and the software will simultaneously estimate wavelet coefficients, other parameters associated with uncertainty in the time-to-depth mappi...

A dissipative bracing system incorporating pressurized fluid viscous spring-dampers has been studied for many years by the authors as an alternative seismic protection strategy for new and existing frame structures. As a concluding stage of this activity, a set of demonstrative case studies was examined to illustrate the enhancement of seismic performance and the economic advantages guaranteed ...

There are a large number of reinforced concrete buildings in seismically active areas of the world that are not built in accordance with modern seismic design provisions such as those published by American Concrete Institution ([ACI] Committee 318, 2008). In the United States and other parts of the developed world, these buildings were constructed between 1930s to mid 1970s according to the bui...

The release of Java 1.1 brings many new features to the Java language. Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, a worthy successor to the authors bestselling first edition of the book, offers an excellent way to keep up with most of them. Youll find that the second edition carries over many strong points from the original, including a quick-start introduction to Java for C or C++ programmers and the ha...

Many complex natural systems studied in the geosciences are characterized by simple local-scale interactions that result in complex emergent behavior. Simulations of these systems, often implemented in parallel using standard central processing unit (CPU) clusters, may be better suited to parallel processing environments with large numbers of simple processors. Such an environment is found in g...

in seismic exploration studies different types of techniques are used to recognize seismic features in terms of their temporal and spatial spectra. variations in frequency content are sensitive to subtle changes in reflection information (castro de matos et al., 2003). in this study the joint time-frequency analysis is used for seismic texture recognition. discrete wavelet transform (dwt) witho...

ABSTRACT Context: this document is designed to be along with those that are in the first edition of new section Journal Contemporary Administration (RAC): tutorial-articles section. Objective: purpose present and discuss relevant topics tutorial-articles. Method: I divide into three main parts. First, provide a summary state art open data code at current date that, jointly, create context for S...