Estimates suggest that each year millions of birds, predominantly Neotropical migrating songbirds, collide with communication towers. To determine the relative collision risks that different nighttime Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) communication tower obstruction lighting systems pose to night-migrating birds, we compared fatalities at towers with different systems: white strobe lights o...

0142-0615/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2010.02.002 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +98 9133981029; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (M.R. Bank In this paper a simulation ground is designed to track the lightning path from cloud to the striking point on high voltage overhead line (OHL) structures. By using this simulation method, the strikes to towers, pha...

Telecommunication towers are among the few steel structures that little attention has been paid to their seismic behavior in existing design codes. Due to lack of design provisions, the designers apply the existing building design codes to telecommunication towers. However, the seismic behavior and response of telecommunication towers is very different from that of building structures. For exam...

For most of the CMS ECAL, a 6 crystal by 6 crystal array of physical calorimeter towers is mapped into trigger towers. There is a 1:1 correspondence between the HCAL and ECAL trigger towers. The trigger tower size is equivalent to the HCAL physical towers, .087 x .087 in η x φ. The φ size remains constant in ∆φ and the η size remains constant in ∆η out to an η of 2.1, beyond which the η size do...

The disinfection of cooling towers based on manufacturers' treatment protocols, as employed in units installed at various public gathering places in Dallas, Tex. (hotels, municipal auditorium), and at the city health department, was evaluated for effectiveness in controlling Legionella pneumophila and compared with previous laboratory studies. In specimens collected in September and December, 1...

This paper concerns towers of curves over a finite field with many rational points, following Garcia–Stichtenoth and Elkies. We present a new method to produce such towers. A key ingredient is the study of algebraic solutions to Fuchsian differential equations modulo p. We apply our results to towers of modular curves, and find new asymptotically good towers. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classifica...

<span>Tree that grows within a town, city and suburban areas, collection of these trees makes the urban forest. These forest have impact on water, pollution heat. Nowadays we are experiencing drastic climatic changes because cutting for our growth increasing population which leads to expansion roads, towers, airports. Individual tree crown detection is necessary map along with feasible pl...

In this paper we construct, for n ≥ 2, arbitrarily large families of infinite towers of compact, orientable Riemannian n-manifolds which are isospectral but not isometric at each stage. In dimensions two and three, the towers produced consist of hyperbolic 2-manifolds and hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and in these cases we show that the isospectral towers do not arise from Sunada’s method.

This paper proposes an efficient numerical technique for simulating hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge systems. An integrated finite strip method (IFSM) is proposed to evaluate the free vibration performance of cable-stayed FRP bridges. The structural ultra-long span (ULSCSB) totally different than steel and concrete structures due complexity mechanical behavior deck. Herein, anisotro...

In 2008 security forces in Colombia found that one of the companies hired to repair electric transmission towers from guerrilla attacks had hired guerrilla members to demolish towers in their contracted area of service. As a result, their business boomed as they were called often to repair electric towers. We model this problem as a game between contractors and the power transmission company, w...