Four new species of Astenus (Eurysunius) Dejean (Staphylinidae: Paederinae) are described from Western Anatolia, Turkey, and illustrated: Astenus gusarovi sp. n. (Çökelez Mountain, Denizli province), A. orgeli sp. n. (İmambaba Tepesi, Aydın province and Bozdağlar, İzmir province), A. kumlutasi sp. n. (Akdağlar, Kütahya province and Murat Mountain, Uşak province) and A. honazicus sp. n. (Honaz M...

Fallstreak cirrus clouds are associated with supersaturated air, together with waves, instabilities and/or turbulence; however, their precise cause is usually uncertain. This paper uses already-published satellite, radiosonde and radar data, reanalysed to study some large fallstreaks which had been previously overlooked. The fallstreaks – up to 60 km long with a parent cloud 20 km wide – are ca...

In this study, wood-water interactions of mountain pine beetle affected lodgepole pine were found to vary with time since death. Based on an analysis of magnetization components and spin-spin relaxation times from 1H NMR, it was determined that the mountain pine beetle attack does not affect the crystalline structure of the wood. Both the amorphous structure and the water components vary with t...

orography plays a substantial role in the formation and evolution of many atmospheric phenomena. observations indicate that two mountain ranges to the southwest of the red sea and west of iran (zagross mountain range) play a crucial role in the formation, evolution and activities of synoptic weather systems over iran. observations also, indicate that there are considerable differences between t...

Water striders of the subfamily Eotrechinae from the Phetchabun Mountain Range can be found at the margins of rock pools and puddles, and in hygropetric habitats including waterfalls. Twenty-two species in three genera are known from Thailand. In the Phetchabun Mountain Range, 12 species representing all three genera were recorded from over a decade of collections (2002-2012). This paper provid...

under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided article is properly cited. a General Outpatient Clinics Unit Clinical Division Heart Institute (Incor) Hospital das Clínicas Faculty of Medicine University of São Paulo, São Paulo/SP Brazil. Operational contemporary diagn...

Luiz Carlos Basso1, Thiago Olitta Basso2,3 and Saul Nitsche Rocha4 1University of São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Piracicaba (SP) 2University of São Paulo, Escola Politécnica, Departamento de Engenharia Química, São Paulo (SP) 3University of São Paulo Programa de Pós-Graduação Inter-unidades em Biotecnologia, São Paulo (SP) 4Positi...

The recent quest for primary votes in the state of Nevada led to renewed headlines about radioactive waste disposal at Yucca Mountain. The image of intense debate among the candidates over this issue—in the context of an ongoing war and the threat of terrorism, of a housing collapse, of a potentially declining economy, and of a looming crisis in funding medical care—prompted me to ruminate yet ...

By a variant version of mountain pass theorem, the existence and multiplicity of solutions are obtained for a class of superlinear p-Laplacian equations: −Δ p u = f (x,u). In this paper, we suppose neither f satisfies the superquadratic condition in Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz sense nor f (x,t)/|t| p−1 is nondecreasing with respect to |t|. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative...

The main objective of Transfer Learning is to reuse knowledge acquired in a previous learned task, in order to enhance the learning procedure in a new and more complex task. Transfer learning comprises a suitable solution for speeding up the learning procedure in Reinforcement Learning tasks. This work proposes a novel method for transferring models to Reinforcement Learning agents. The models ...