Infections with Bartonella spp. have been recognized as emerging zoonotic diseases in humans. Large knowledge gaps exist, however, relating to reservoirs, vectors, and transmission of these bacteria. We describe identification by culture, PCR, and housekeeping gene sequencing of Bartonella spp. in fed, wingless deer keds (Lipoptena cervi), deer ked pupae, and blood samples collected from moose,...

Turbulence has the potential for creating gas density enhancements that initiate cloud and star formation (SF), it can be generated locally by SF. To study connection between turbulence SF, we looked relationships SF traced FUV images, kinetic energy (KED) velocity dispersion ($v_{disp}$) in LITTLE THINGS sample of nearby dIrr galaxies. We performed 2D cross-correlations KED measured annuli to ...

In uncon®ned aquifers ¯owing under topographic gradients, the water table is a subdued replica of the ground surface above. This principle is the basis for using detailed collateral or secondary information from digital elevation models to supplement sparse observations from water wells in the mapping of phreatic surfaces. Data from DEM-derived secondary variables are incorporated into the esti...

This paper summarizes the work used to improve low energy adaptive cluster hierarchy (LEACH) algorithm and proposes a new protocol “Seeded LEACH-KED” in order to increase the network lifetime and then compare its result with the LEACH , LEACH-C and LEACH-KED. Prolonging network lifetime is the way to provide energy efficient WSNs. This research is inspired by the fact that LEACH occupies a very...

The quest for an approximate yet accurate kinetic energy density (KED) functional is central to the development of orbital-free theory. While a recipe closed-shell systems has been proposed earlier, we have shown that it cannot be naïvely extended open-shell atoms. In this present work, investigated efficacy ad-hoc compute densities atoms by extending methodology used systems. We also analysed ...

Abstract The elastic deformation of the links in robot mechanisms affects precision their motion and fatigue strength. Kineto-elastodynamics (KED)-the dynamics analysis that considers elasticity links-emerged early studies has been subject extensive research applications since. However, there have no reports on effects kinematic pair clearances vibration mechanisms. This is mainly because finit...

In the present work, we propose a scheme for the fusion of different phone duration models, operating in parallel. Specifically, the predictions from a group of dissimilar and independent to each other individual duration models are fed to a machine learning algorithm, which reconciles and fuses the outputs of the individual models, yielding more precise phone duration predictions. The performa...

In the practice of interpolating near-surface soil moisture measured by a wireless sensor network (WSN) grid, traditional Kriging methods with auxiliary variables, such as Co-kriging and Kriging with external drift (KED), cannot achieve satisfactory results because of the heterogeneity of soil moisture and its low correlation with the auxiliary variables. This study developed an Extended Krigin...

Deontic logic (DL) is increasingly recognized as an indispensable tool in such application areas as formal representation of legal knowledge and reasoning, formal specification of computer systems and formal analysis of database integrity constraints. Despite this acknowledgement, there have been few attempts to provide computationally tractable inference mechanisms for DL (most notably [Bel87]...

Annually much agricultural productions are lost by natural hazards such as flooding, extreme temperature, and drought. In this research we present a procedure to identify such hazards for rice cropping from remote sensing imagery. Extreme temperature is investigated by comparing actual temperatures with tolerance temperatures during the growing stage. Drought is investigated using the evapotran...