The present paper represent the efforts undertaken for the development of an semi-automatic robot that may be used for various post-disaster rescue operation planning and their subsequent execution using one-way communication of video and data from the robot to the controller and controller to the robot respectively. Wireless communication has been used for the purpose so that the robot may acc...

We examine how market structure and enforcement affect smuggling and welfare in a model where smuggling is camouflaged by legal sales. Conditions are given for when some, but not necessarily all, firms smuggle. With camouflaging, t e market price is below the price when all sales are legal, so smuggling improves wel if the price effect outweighs excess smuggling cost. This welfare effect is dir...

Contributors to this symposium have outlined the present status of our scientific knowledge of what is one of the most fascinating regions on this globe, the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. No completely satisfactory definition of this region exists. It may be defined as those islands which lie within the Subantarctic zone of surface waters, bounded to the north by the Subtropical Converge...

Legal scholars, legislators, policy advocates, and the news media frequently use jury verdicts to draw conclusions about the performance of the tort system. However actual payouts can differ greatly from verdicts. We report evidence on post-verdict payouts from the most comprehensive longitudinal study of matched jury verdicts and payouts. Using data on all insured medical malpractice claims in...

Restoration ecology had its genesis in the 1930s as Midwestern ecologists came to the realization that nearly all the tallgrass prairie in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin had been converted to agricultural or urban land uses (Curtis and Greene 1949, Critical Trends Assessment Project 1994, Smith 1998). While calls for preservation of remaining prairie in Iowa began by 1919 (Smith 1998), the pione...

q-Analogs of Classical 6-Periodicity: From Euler to Chebyshev Boris A KUPERSHMIDT The University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN 37388, USA E-mail: [email protected] Received November 19, 2002; Accepted January 03, 2003 Abstract The sequence of period 6 starting with 1, 1, 0,−1,−1, 0 appears in many different disguises in mathematics. Various q-versions of this sequence are found, a...

In late 2010, Barbados Port Inc. (BPI) selected the Sugar Point team, a joint venture of SMI Infrastructure Solutions and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (RCCL), to undertake a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a new cruise ship terminal adjacent to the existing Port of Bridgetown. The proposed new facility has been designed to accommodate the largest cruise ships in the world (RCCL’s ...

Large quantities of metabolic profiling data are being gathered intensively in the rapidly growing field of Metabolomics. However, such data, in order to provide knowledge, must be machine-explored by robust methods that deal with complexity and uncertainty. Symbolic machine learning methods have the power to model structural and relational complexity while statistical machine learning ones pro...

[1] We determine the volcano climate sensitivity l and response time t for the Mount Pinatubo eruption, using observational measurements of the temperature anomalies of the lower troposphere, measurements of the long wave outgoing radiation, and the aerosol optical density. Using standard linear response theory we find l = 0.15 ± 0.06 K/(W/m), which implies a negative feedback of 1.4 (+0.7, 1.6...

The goal of this study is to determine the number of i terations (堅) required in a Monte Carlo based space-time interaction analysis of crime data sets, in order to test the adequacy of using a single va lue of 999 i terations. A case s tudy of burglary crime data sets is presented in which Knox test is used for the analysis of space-time interactions. The outcomes of this analysis demonstrate ...