In any large software organization, the street cred of source code is of principle concern. Often-times we find that a given code base can talk a mean game, but when time comes to “throw down,” that code base is nowhere to be seen. While intuitively we as software developers come to gain a sense of which code bases are trust-worthy (or, “will ball ‘till they fall”), some systematic method for m...

Where E0 is the standard electrode potential, R is the universal gas constant, T is the absolute temperature, z is the number of moles of electrons transferred in the cell reaction or halfreaction, F is the Faraday-constant, and cox and cred are the concentrations of the oxidized and reduced forms of the component. The potential of the hydrogen electrode is declared to be 0.000 V at all tempera...

Floods are among the most frequent and destructive natural hazards worldwide (CRED, 2020). In Europe, as in many other parts of world, number severe inland floods has been increasing since 1980s (Bloschl et al., combination with urban development accumulation damage potential floodplains these shifts extremes likely to be major cost drivers for adaptation infrastructure thus pose biggest challe...

The development of automated methods for revealing the repetitive structure of a given music recording is of central importance in music information retrieval. In this paper, we present a novel scape plot representation that allows for visualizing repetitive structures of the entire music recording in a hierarchical, compact, and intuitive way. In a scape plot, each point corresponds to an audi...

The title compound, C(8)H(18)N(4)O(2) (2+)·2Cl(-), contains two oxime groups. The methyl oxime group has a Z configuration, and the ethyl oxime group is disordered, with both Z and E configurations in occupancies of 0.840 (8) and 0.160 (8), respectively. In the crystal structure, there are a number of N-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds.

Modified tau is a parameter computed by ACAS to estimate the earliest time at which a collision could occur should an intruder aircraft accelerate toward the own aircraft. A concern with the modified tau calculation has been raised in a class of encounters where intruders are already close and converging slowly. In these problem cases, ACAS may induce a Near Mid-Air Collision by generating RAs ...

Background: Long-term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with prednisolone (PRED) is associated with bone mineral density (BMD) loss. This study aimed to determine the status of BMD in non-compliant women who used PRED alone for RA. Methods: Non-adherent RA taking < 7.5 mg daily PRED without DMARDs for > 6 months, and RA patients taking methotrexate +PRED (RA control) were compared with ag...