Emerging location-based systems and data analysis frameworks requires efficient management of spatial data for approximate and exact search. Exact similarity search can be done using space partitioning data structures, such as KD-tree, R*-tree, and ball-tree. In this paper, we focus on ball-tree, an efficient search tree that is specific for spatial queries which use euclidean distance. Each no...

A novel ball bond process optimization method based on a thermal signal from an integrated aluminum microsensor is reported. The in-situ temperature during the ball bonding is measured and analyzed. The ultrasonic period shows distinct features corresponding to the scrubbing of the ball on the pad and the intermetallic bond growth, and the ball deformation by ultrasonic softening. A peak of the...

The herbal ball has been used as a Thai traditional medicine for relieving many diseases including acne. However, the application process of the herbal ball in practice is complicated and time consuming. The objective of this work was to utilize an herbal ball extract to formulate a gel to reach a more favorable use of the herbal ball for acne treatment. An herbal ball consisting of Andrographi...

Organizations have historically sought efficiency improvements through different combinations of materials, components, production and processes to get better performance. However, in this age of the knowledge economy, the new organizational management has shifted its focus to the proper use of the knowledge of employees to create greater output and performance. There is a recent trend towards ...

The main result of this paper is that the group Diff(S×S) of diffeomorphisms S1×S2→S1×S2 has the homotopy type one would expect, namely the homotopy type of its subgroup of diffeomorphisms that take each sphere {x}×S to a sphere {y}×S by an element of the isometry group O(3) of S , where the function x,y is an isometry of S , an element of O(2) . It is not hard to see that this subgroup is home...

If a real scalar field is dominated by non-relativistic modes, then it approximately conserves its particle number and obeys an equation that governs a complex scalar field theory with a conserved global U(1) symmetry. From this fact, it is shown that the I-ball (oscillon) can be naturally understood as a projection (e.g., real part) of the non-relativistic Q-ball solution. In particular, we cl...

The construction of new Ultra High Voltage laboratories requires more studies about standards for equipment as well as for testing and measurement techniques. Currently, the analysis of tail chopped lightning impulse waveforms is possible only by prior application of a full reference lightning impulse, creating difficulties for testing and processing of waveforms. A new method for evaluating th...

and Applied Analysis 3 Definition 2.4. M is called c-porous if for any x ∈ X and every r > 0, there are y ∈ B x, r and φ ∈ X∗ \ {0} such that { z ∈ X : φ z > φy ∩M ∅. 2.2 C-porosity turns out to be the suitable notion to describe the smallness of convex nowhere dense sets see Proposition 2.5 and is a stronger form of 0-angle porosity x ∈ X instead x ∈ M . Indeed, consider the unit sphere S of a...

????. Figure 1. Elevation profiles of a crater over a pure ice half-space and heat flow of 1 mW m, after 100 Myr. Surface temperature is indicated in the legend box. 1798.pdf 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013)

The initial temperature of a heat conductor is zero and its boundary temperature is kept equal to one at each time. The conductor contains a stationary isothermic surface, that is, an invariant spatial level surface of the temperature. In a previous paper, we proved that, if the conductor is bounded, then it must be a ball. Here, we prove that the boundary of the conductor is either a hyperplan...