HE MOST comprehensive indicator of economic performance in the nation in a given year is gross national product (CNP). Changes in CNP reflect both changes in prices and changes in the physical volume of output. CNP adjusted for price level changes is generally accepted as a reliable indicator of growth in the nation’s total production and is used by economic analysts to indicate whether the eco...

HE MOST comprehensive indicator of economic performance in the nation in a given year is gross national product (CNP). Changes in CNP reflect both changes in prices and changes in the physical volume of output. CNP adjusted for price level changes is generally accepted as a reliable indicator of growth in the nation’s total production and is used by economic analysts to indicate whether the eco...

In this paper we derive a Tully Fisher relation from measured I band photometry and Hα rotation curves of a large survey of southern sky spiral galaxies, obtained in Persic & Salucci (1995) by deprojecting and folding the raw Hα data of Mathewson, Ford & Buchhorn (1992). We calibrate the relation by combining several of the largest clusters in the survey, using an iterative maximum likelihood p...

This course gives an elementary introduction to the phase-field method and to its applications for the modeling of crystal growth. Two different interpretations of the phase-field variable are given and discussed. It can be seen as a physical order parameter that characterizes a phase transition, or as a smoothed indicator function that tracks domain boundaries. Elementary phase-field models fo...

the earth is a stable feature but it is diminished due to different factors including: the extension and development of cities, emerging of villages and rural areas with the physical texture of cities, the spreading of industrial units and population growth, changing the patterns of land use and lack of good management. this paper is concerned with the global and national perspective of these p...

Abstract Introduction Low physical activity may be associated with comorbidities, sedentary lifestyle or clinical worsening in heart failure (HF) patients. Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) detect and analyse data that is often integrated multifactorial algorithms for predicting HF decompensations, but its potential probably underestimated. Purpose We hypothesized low physic...

Description: The constant growth of the number of connected devices, mobile phones and intuitive and natural human-machine interfaces has resulted in the democratization of ubiquitous computing and cyberphysical systems. In such systems, physical and logical sensors provide a huge amount of data that describes users' activity as well as supplementary contextual information. Assuming that contex...

Starch is one of the biomolecules that appears frequently in food composition due to its physical properties, and because it acts as a source of glucose and therefore of energy (DEMIATE; KONKEL; PEDROSO, 2001; WEBER; COLLARES-QUEIROZ; CHANG, 2009). The proliferation of microorganisms in foodstuffs is directly dependent on their ability to hydrolyze starch releasing glucose that will be the prim...