in this study, the capabilities of wawewatch-iii and mike21-sw for predicting the characteristics ofwind-generated waves in hormuz strait are evaluated. the numerical models have been set up using input data including gfs wind with 5° spatial resolution and 6 hours time intervals, along with the etopo1 bathymetry data with 2 arc-minute spatial resolutions. the results of the two model simulatio...

I thank Eli Amir, Deen Kemsley, and Mike Kirschenheiter for helpful conversations. All errors and misinterpretations are mine.

1 I am grateful to Mike Tomasello, Devin Casenhiser and Giulia Bencini for very helpful comments on an earlier draft.

Mike White urges structural engineers to act now in their projects reduce embodied carbon if we are keep the IPCC's 1.5 degree Celsius warming target.

Typhoon Noru (2022) was a historic storm that caused significant damage to the central region of Vietnam. has strong winds and torrential rainfall in Da Nang, Quang Nam, Ngai. Nam Province saw many trees power lines fall, areas were flooded. The Nang government reported typhoon toppled trees, blew rooftops three houses, damaged walls several schools, outage at some 3200 substations. It resulted...

The impact of dams and reservoirs on the aquatic ecosystem rivers is a very important topic for water resource management. These hydrotechnical facilities change natural hydromorphological regime rivers. This paper analyzed hydrodynamic characteristics an undeveloped riverbed section downstream Colibița reservoir, from Bistrita Ardeleana River hydrographic basin. After processing data obtained ...

We describe Coach Mike, an animated pedagogical agent for informal computer science education, and report findings from two experiments that provide initial evidence for the efficacy of the system. In the first study, we found that Coach Mike’s presence led to 20% longer holding times, increased acceptance of programming challenges, and reduced misuse of the exhibit, but had limited cumulative ...

In this paper, we describe Coach Mike, a virtual staff member at the Boston Museum of Science that seeks to help visitors at Robot Park, an interactive exhibit for computer programming. By tracking visitor interactions and through the use of animation, gestures, and synthesized speech, Coach Mike provides several forms of support that seek to improve the experiences of museum visitors. These in...