Soil moisture changes are generally due to external factors (precipitation, evaporation, etc.) and internal forces (gravitational force, capillarity, transpiration, etc.). When soil temperatures remain below 0 °C for a long time (hours or even entire consecutive days), part of the liquid water content of the soil can freeze, thus freezing/thawing effects must be taken into account in those cond...

You’re going on holiday to a place called Utopia, which is lovely, or so they say. Your case is packed, and you have your passport and visa. Then come murmurings about the weather. What do the meteorologists say? Well, we’ve had enough of experts. You’re told that lots of doctors and nurses are leaving Utopia. People from the business world are starting to worry about the effects of trade deals...

Abstract. Climate is usually considered to depend on a large number of parameters, this being essentially a functional in multi-dimensional parameter space. We propose a low-dimensional model of a climate where the temperature field on a thermally conducting planet depends on the external energy input and very limited number of internal parameters, like thermal conductivity and reflectivity. Eq...

all forms of creative production born of an intimate and individual urge, often secretive, unbound from the conventional art system rules. Through short descriptions of the Outsider art work of prominent artists and new protagonists often hosted in community mental health services, this section intends to investigate the latest developments of the contemporary art scene, where the distances bet...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.005 * Corresponding author. Address: Universität B Sidlerstasse 5, 3013 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail addresses: [email protected] Lefort). The Peneus and Amphitrites Paterae region of Mars displays large areas of smooth, geologically young terrains overlying a rougher and older topography. These terrains ma...

Introduction The authors were all involved in the 'seminal' Utopia project, 1981-85, where Cooperative Design methodology, involving users very early in the design process, had an early development and application in the use of computers. One strong goal was to 'give the end users a voice' in design and development of computer support in work places, thus enhancing the quality of the resulting ...

The compromise value is introduced for cooperative games with random payoffs, that is, for cooperative games where the payoff to a coalition of players is a random variable. It is a compromise between utopia payoffs and minimal rights. This solution concept is based on the compromise value for NTU games and the τ -value for TU games. It is shown that the nonempty core of a game is bounded by th...

Utopia and Vision. Learning from Vienna and Frankfurt By definition, a utopia cannot be realized; at the same time architecture needs a “place”. Within this contradiction, modern architectural utopias have conceived of and developed spatial solutions to implement their principles. The spatial analysis of modern utopias allows for the identification of the relationship between architectural feat...