Constructed wetlands are gaining increased attention for treatment of nonpoint sources of water pollution. Although constructed wetlands have been utilized for wastewater treatment in warm climates, their performance in cold climates has been questioned. A surface-flow wetland, designed to treat 2.65 m super(3) d super(-1) of milkhouse wastewater, was constructed on the University of Connecticu...

Perception of faces and voices plays a prominent role in human social interaction, making multisensory integration of cross-modal speech a topic of great interest in cognitive neuroscience. How to define potential sites of multisensory integration using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is currently under debate, with three statistical criteria frequently used (e.g. super-additive, m...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of learning latent super-events from activity videos, and present how it benefits activity detection in continuous videos. We define a super-event as a set of multiple events occurring together in videos with a particular temporal organization; it is the opposite concept of sub-events. Real-world videos contain multiple activities and are rarely segmented...

This report focuses on the technical approach that was outlined in the research proposal as well as the work that has been initiated since the start of this project. The first section summarizes the general technical approach on which this research is based. The remaining sections describe the studies that have been initiated since the project began and present some of the pertinent, preliminar...

ÐTransformation superplasticity of an intermetallic Ti3Al-based alloy (Super a2) is demonstrated by thermal cycling about the a2/b transformation temperature range under a uniaxial tensile biasing stress. Failure strains up to 610% were recorded at a stress of 3 MPa, compared with 110% for deformation by isothermal creep at the same stress. The strain increment produced during each half-cycle i...

production of high rapeseed yield is important in rapeseed breeding programs. with regards to the importance of estimation of general combining ability (gca), specific combining ability (sca), additive and dominance genetic variances, gene action, heterosis and heritability, an experiment was carried out in a 9×9 diallel design. nine parents with 36 crosses were studied in a randomized complete...

A connection between the conifold locus of the type II string on the W P 4 11226 Calabi-Yau manifold and the geometry of the quantum moduli of N =2 SU(2) super Yang-Mills is presented. This relation is obtained from the anomalous behaviour of the SU(2) super Yang-Mills special coordinates under S-duality transformation in Sl(2;Z)/Γ2.

High-precision measurements implemented with light are desired in all fields of science. However, light acts as a wave, and the Rayleigh criterion in classical optics yields a diffraction limit that prevents obtaining a resolution smaller than the wavelength. Sub-wavelength interference has potential application in lithography because it beats the classical Rayleigh resolution limit. Here, we c...