As demonstrated in the previous chapter, snow interacts strongly with the global climate system, both influencing and forming as a result of this system. The following chapters discuss the interaction of snow with the chemical and biological systems. This chapter discusses the physical properties of snow as the habitat and regulator of the snow ecosystem. In this sense, the physical snow cover ...

Finite words and their overlap properties are considered in this paper. Let w be a finite word of length n with period p and where the maximum length of its unbordered factors equals k. A word is called unbordered if it possesses no proper prefix that is also a suffix of that word. Suppose k < p in w. It is known that n ≤ 2k − 2, if w has an unbordered prefix u of length k. We show that, if n =...

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In this paper we introduce and study the notion of plurisubhar-monic functions in calibrated geometry. These functions generalize the classical plurisubharmonic functions from complex geometry and enjoy many of their important properties. Moreover, they exist in abundance whereas the corresponding pluriharmonics are generally quite scarce. A number of the results established in complex analysis...

Recently the authors showed that there is a robust potential theory attached to any calibrated manifold (X, φ). In particular, on X there exist φ-plurisubharmonic functions, φ-convex domains, φ-convex boundaries, etc., all inter-related and having a number of good properties. In this paper we show that, in a strong sense, the plurisubharmonic functions are the polar duals of the φ-submanifolds,...

Continuous monitoring of Power transformer is very much essential during its operation. Incipient faults inside the tank and winding insulation needs careful attention. Traditional ratio methods and Duval triangle can be employed to diagnose the incipient faults. Many times correct diagnosis due to the borderline problems and the existence of multiple faults may not be possible. Artificial inte...

Postural and biomechanical analysis of the spine and trunk require an accurate quantification of spine location with regard to the gravity line. Several studies [1, 2] used force plate system in order to estimate the center of gravity projection but very few addressed the location of the gravity line related to the spine configuration. Duval Beaupere & Al. [3] has assessed the center of gravity...

The aim of this work is to present an ongoing project to formalize, in the framework of diagrammatic logic (due to Dominique Duval and Christian Lair) some data structures appearing in Sergeraert’s symbolic computation systems Kenzo and EAT. More precisely, we intend to translate into the diagrammatic setting a previous work based on standard algebraic specification techniques. In particular, w...

Recently the authors showed that there is a robust potential theory attached to any calibrated manifold (X,φ). In particular, on X there exist φ-plurisubharmonic functions, φ-convex domains, φ-convex boundaries, etc., all inter-related and having a number of good properties. In this paper we show that, in a strong sense, the plurisubharmonic functions are the polar duals of the φ-submanifolds, ...