Current water quality guidelines for reclaimed wastewater have predominantly addressed risks associated with the presence of microbial organisms. Comparatively, chemical parameters have been largely overlooked or inadequately considered. Acceptable levels of chemical parameters will be dependant on the proposed reuse applications for the water and, in many cases, site-specific factors such as t...

We present a two-layer architecture for two-wheeled robots trajectory planning. This architecture can be used to describe steering behaviours and to generate candidate trajectories that will be evaluated by a higher-level layer before choosing which one will be followed. The higher layer uses a TÆMS tree to describe the current robot goal and its decomposition into alternative steering behaviou...

The paper investigates to what extent the convergence of banks over risk-adjusted capital standards set by the new Basel Capital Accord may affect the way in which they screen innovative firms. It also gives an overview of the existing forms of credit support to R&D activities. The study is built upon a survey conducted in January and February 2006 on 12 main Italian banking groups. The survey ...

This paper presents a method for the acquisition of violin instrumental gesture parameters by using a commercial two-sensor 3D tracking system based on electro-magnetic field (EMF) sensing. The methodolgy described here is suitable for acquiring instrumental gesture parameters of any bowed-string instrument, and has been devised by paying attention to intrusion, flexibility, and robustness. Aft...

Tests based on the quantile regression process can be formulated like the classical Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Cr amer-von-Mises tests of goodness-oft employing the theory of Bessel processes as in ?. However, it is frequently desirable to formulate hypotheses involving unknown nuisance parameters, thereby jeopardizing the distribution free character of these tests. We characterize this situation a...

In Norwegian, possessive pronouns can be prenominal (min bil 'my car') or postnominal (bilen min 'car.DEF my'). In the Principles and Parameters literature, the standard assumption is that possessive pronouns are prenominal in underlying structure, while the postnominal position is a result of N-movement. This paper takes a different approach. The focus is the grammatical differences between th...

We describe the properties of Higgs bosons in a class of supersymmetric theories. We consider models in which the low-energy sector contains two weak complex doublets and perhaps one complex gauge-singlet Higgs field. Supersymmetry is assumed to be either softly or spontaneously broken, thereby imposing a number of restrictions on the Higgs boson parameters. We elucidate the Higgs boson masses ...

Original scientific paper Analysis of heat source shape is important for comprehending Submerged Arc Welding Process. Here an attempt is made to investigate into the analytical solution of the thermal field related to a high deposition rate based process like SAW. It is assumed that a moving heat source follows Gaussian distribution. The realistic assumptions of the shape parameters are made to...

1 The concept of the reduced set of contact maps is introduced. Using this concept we find the ground state candidates for Hydrophobic-Polar lattice model on a two dimensional square lattice. Using these results we exactly enumerate the native states of all proteins for a wide range of energy parameters. In this way, we show that there are some sequences, which have an absolute native state. Mo...

The closed-form solutions of surface roughness parameters for a theoretical profile consisting of elliptical arcs are presented. Parabolic and simplified approximation methods are commonly used to estimate the surface roughness parameters for such machined surface profiles. The closed-form solution presented in this study reveals the range of errors of approximation methods for any elliptical a...