Abstract. Long-term measurements of atmospheric mass concentrations black carbon (BC) are needed to investigate changes in its emission, transport, and deposition. However, depending on instrumentation, parameters related BC such as aerosol absorption coefficient (babs) have been measured instead. Most ground-based babs the Arctic made by filter-based photometers, including particle soot photom...

We investigate the nature of far-infrared (70 μm) and hard X-ray (3–24 keV) selected galaxies in the COSMOS field detected with both Spitzer and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). By matching the Spitzer-COSMOS catalog against the NuSTAR-COSMOS catalog, we obtain a sample consisting of a hyperluminous infrared galaxy with log(LIR/L⊙) ≥ 13, 12 ultraluminous infrared galaxies with 12...

In physical information theory elementary objects are represented as correlation structures with oscillator properties and characterized by action. The procedure makes it possible to describe the photons of positive negative charges real action; gravitons in equal amounts real, i.e., virtual action, components vacuum deactivated An analysis currents static Maxwell fields wave particle propertie...

Paper presents the main principals in designing wood-lightweight concrete composite floor structures using FEM models. All design-related analyses are performed by means of the FEA COSMOS/M program. Paper emphasises some important details in FEM model design (how to choose appropriate finite elements for different types of materials, how to connect concrete slab and timber beams to work togethe...

Suppose an astronomer is equipped with a device capable of detecting emissions — whether they be electromagnetic, gravitational, or neutrino — from transient sources distributed throughout the cosmos. Because of source rate density evolution and variation of cosmological volume elements, the sources first detected when the machine is switched on are likely to be ones in the high-redshift univer...

The rapid evolution of the Internet requires a fundamental reshaping of cost models for Internet Service Providers (ISP) in order to facilitate their internal cost management and to provide a solid service-oriented basis for tariff and charge calculation. This paper presents a generic ISP cost model (COSMOS) whose design is strictly oriented towards reallife scenarios, but at the same time aims...

Unlike the substantial coherent bulk motion in which our local patch of the Cosmos is participating, the amplitude of the random motions around this large scale flow seems to be surprisingly low. Attempts to invoke global explanations to account for this coldness of the local cosmic velocity field have not yet been succesfull. Here we propose a different view on this cosmic dilemma, stressing t...

In the Timaeus, plants are granted soul, and speci!cally the sort of soul capable of perception and desire. Also in the Timaeus, perception requires the involvement of to phronimon. It seems it must follow that plants are intelligent. I argue that we can neither avoid granting plants sensation in just this sense, nor can we suppose that ‘to phronimon’ is something devoid of intelligence. Indeed...