In this paper we analyze quantitatively the concept of LAGEOS–type satellites in critical supplementary orbit configuration (CSOC) which has proven capable of yielding various observables for many tests of General Relativity in the terrestrial gravitational field, with particular emphasis on the measurement of the Lense–Thirring effect. By using an entirely new pair of LAGEOS–type satellites in...

Some 900 students paused Monday to pay tribute to “Sun­ shine,” who died that morning. ‘Sunshine” was a two-month old turtle. A funeral'procession of 15 cars, led by an 8-foot casket containing Sunshine’s body, wound its way through campus and stopped to hold a rally for the deceased. At the rally, 2S0 heard of Sun­ shine’s record of accomplish-, ments. The procession then moved on. ' Burial to...

cal evidence of which we are aware is that this technology is by far more complex than simply installing an automated-sorting scale unit and a set of one-way gates in a hog house. This complexity is evidenced by what appears to be incomplete animal adaptation, various design flaws, and unintended and un expected consequences of these systems. These problems – among others – have been confirmed ...

Self-regulatory skills are broadly defined as the ability to manage emotions, focus attention, and inhibit some behaviors while activating others in accordance with social expectations and are an established indicator of academic success. Growing evidence links motor skills and physical activity to self-regulation. This study examined the efficacy of a motor skills intervention (i.e., the Child...

MEF2C is a MADS-box transcription factor required for cardiac myogenesis and morphogenesis. In MEF2C mutant mouse embryos, heart development arrests at the looping stage (embryonic day 9.0), the future right ventricular chamber fails to form, and cardiomyocyte differentiation is disrupted. To identify genes regulated by MEF2C in the developing heart, we performed differential array analysis cou...

Interface models coupling friction and adhesion, where adhesion is regarded as interface damage, are briefly reviewed. The most widely used cohesive zone models are presented and discussed. A general framework for these laws, recently developed by Del Piero and Raous in the form of a unified model, is outlined. As an example, it is here established that the RCCM (Raous-Cangémi-Cocou-Monerie) mo...

[1] In this work, the magnetic variations simulated by the NCAR thermosphereionosphere-electrodynamics general circulation model (TIE-GCM) in the vicinity of the magnetic equator are examined to evaluate the ability of this model to reproduce the major features of the equatorial electrojet (EEJ) as observed on the ground as well as on board low-altitude orbiting satellites. The TIE-GCM simulate...

We study germs of smooth vector fields in a neighborhood of a fixed point having an hyperbolic linear part at this point. It is well known that the “small divisors” are invisible either for the smooth linearization or normal form problem. We prove that this is completely different in the smooth Gevrey category. We prove that a germ of smooth α-Gevrey vector field with an hyperbolic linear part ...

The fundamental theorem of surface theory classically asserts that, if a field of positive-definite symmetric matrices (aαβ ) of order two and a field of symmetric matrices (bαβ ) of order two together satisfy the Gauss and Codazzi-Mainardi equations in a connected and simply-connected open subset ω of R2, then there exists an immersion θ : ω→R3 such that these fields are the first and second f...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Crop model CSM DSSAT Genetic algorithm Hyperspectral LAI Model inversion Nitrogen Optimization PEST PROSAIL Simulation Wheat Yield Remote sensing technology can rapidly provide spatial information on crop growth status, which ideally could be used to invert radiative transfer models or ecophysiological models for estimating a variety of crop biophysical propertie...