The World Stress Map (WSM) project has compiled a global database of quality-ranked data records on the contemporary tectonic stresses in the Earth’s crust. The WSM 2005 database release contains approximately 16 000 data records from different types of stress indicators such as earthquake focal mechanisms solutions, well bore breakouts, hydraulic fracturing and overcoring measurements, as well...

This paper proposes that basic ideas from the work system theory (WST) and the work system method (WSM) might become a front end to object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD). After describing the background motivation and summarizing work system concepts, it uses a hiring system example to show how two tools from WSM can be used as a front end for OOAD, in effect, a step before creating use ca...

Text and structural data mining of web and social media (WSM) provides a novel disease surveillance resource and can identify online communities for targeted public health communications (PHC) to assure wide dissemination of pertinent information. WSM that mention influenza are harvested over a 24-week period, 5 October 2008 to 21 March 2009. Link analysis reveals communities for targeted PHC. ...

Analysis of Google Influenza-like-illness (ILI) search queries has shown a strongly correlated pattern with Center for Disease Control and Prevention seasonal ILI reporting data. Web and social media (WSM) provide another resource to detect increases in ILI. This paper evaluates trends in blog posts that discuss Influenza. The results of the analysis show Influenza-related blogging trends have ...

Ambient continental-rural fine aerosol (K-puszta, Hungary, PM1.5) was sampled on quartz fibre filters in winter and summer 2001. Water-soluble matter (WSM) was extracted in MilliQ-water, and, in a second step, solid phase extraction was used to isolate the less hydrophilic fraction (ISOM) of the water-soluble organic matter (WSOM) from remaining inorganic salts and “most” hydrophilic organic ma...

The ability to geolocate ENVISAT ASAR image products and transform them into a map projection is a critical step required to enable not only overlays with other sources of information (e.g. DEM, GIS layers), but even with other ASAR products, especially those acquired with a different track, beam, or incidence angle. This paper summarises geolocation validation results evaluating both the relat...

[1] Observations from the recent Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) solar minimum campaign are compared to last cycle’s Whole Sun Month (WSM) to demonstrate that sunspot numbers, while providing a good measure of solar activity, do not provide sufficient information togaugesolar andheliosphericmagneticcomplexity and its effect at the Earth. Thepresent solarminimum is exceptionally quiet,with suns...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate properties by-products obtained from oil industry, identify content bioactive compounds and test safety their reintroduction in food industry. Three sunflower meals after cold-pressing whole (WSM), partially dehulled (PSM) total (TSM) seeds were used. A higher protein, ash fiber for WSM, followed by PSM, TSM meals. Conversely, lipid lower WSM Sunflower a...

BACKGROUND In Japan, syphilis reports have recently increased rapidly. However, unlike other developed countries where men who have sex with men (MSM) were associated with the rise, the increase in Japan has been attributed more to men who have sex with women (MSW) and women who have sex with men (WSM). We report on this increase based on surveillance data. METHODS Syphilis is a notifiable di...

In this paper, a design is presented for high-speed, high-power motor four-legged robot actuator that was optimized using the weighted sum method (WSM) based on Taguchi method, and response surface (RSM). First, output torque, torque constant, ripple, efficiency were selected as objective functions design. The sampling implemented to use mixed orthogonal array single characteristics of each fun...