This paper describes a large cyclonic gyre that lasted several days in the northwest Pacific during July 1988. Cyclonic winds at 850 hPa extended beyond the 2000-km radius with a radius of maximum winds of 700– 800 km. The gyre exhibited clear skies within and north of its center. Active convection extended 4000 km in longitude to its south. The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) was in its active...

Saccade planning may invoke spatially-specific feedback signals that bias early visual activity in favor of top-down goals. We tested this hypothesis by measuring cortical activity at the early stages of the dorsal and ventral visual processing streams. Human subjects maintained saccade plans to (prosaccade) or away (antisaccade) from a spatial location over long memory-delays. Results show tha...

In video applications including video broadcasting, interactive TV and IPTV, video streams are transmitted over various networks. In order to fulfill the requirement of video devices to cut-in broadcasting, start playback at a random location and jump to another location, the video service provider has to implement the random access functionality. Furthermore, the random access points can also ...

In this paper we present a system for identifying and localizing speakers using distant microphone arrays and a steerable pan-tilt-zoom camera. Audio and video streams are processed in real-time to obtain the diarization information “who speaks when and where” with low latency to be used in advanced video conferencing systems or user-adaptive interfaces. A key feature of the proposed system is ...

The recent launch of GLAST coinciding with the MAXI workshop opens a new era for studies of jet-dominated active galaxies, known as blazars. While the emission processes operating in various spectral bands in blazars are reasonably well understood, the knowledge of the details of the structure of the jet, location of the dissipation region with respect to the accreting black hole, and coupling ...

one of the world's major mineral dust source regions lies along the border between iran and afghanistan. in this studyit is hypothesized that a low-level jet may play in role in generating the intensity of this source region. the presence of alow-level jet east of the seistan mountains is documented here for the first time. the jet exists mainly from may toseptember and has a core at 850 mb. ma...

The noninvasive Doppler assessment of regurgitant volume from jet size is limited by the fundamental inequality of jet volume and regurgitant volume and by the dependence of jet dimensions on driving pressure and instrument settings for a given flow volume. Therefore, this study addresses the hypothesis that an equation could be derived from basic physical principles to quantify regurgitant vol...

The barred galaxy NGC 7479 hosts a remarkable jet-like radio continuum feature: bright, 12-kpc long in projection, and hosting an aligned magnetic field. The degree of polarization is 6%–8% along the jet, and remarkably constant, which is consistent with helical field models. The radio brightness of the jet suggests strong interaction with the ISM and hence a location near the disk plane. We ob...

the applications of electrochemical machining are increasing because of increasing requests of industries for materials with high strengh and high hardness. regular ecm uses a tool with spicified profile shape that is similar to final shape of workpiece. in this reasearch a nozzle that delivers electrolyte to the machining gap is used for machining cylinderical workpieces. by moving the electro...