This paper deals with the incidence of housing subsidies, which is analysed using Finnish panel data. The main data set comprises 50 000 households that received housing allowances during the period 2000–2008. In addition, we utilize repeated cross-sections of all Finnish households for 1989–2008, the annual sample exceeding 10 000. Estimation results suggest that a part of the subsidies will i...

Slicing-Fitting-Linking (SFL) is a fast triangulation technique that guarantees building a closed mesh with consistent normals. The proposed technique can be used with diierent surface reconstruction cues such as laser scanner, stereo, SFS, and CT/MRI. The output of SFL can be in the form of STL les that are suitable for most rapid prototyping machines. The technique has three tasks. The rst ta...

We uncover a superscattering behavior of a pseudospin-1 wave from weak scatterers in the subwavelength regime where the scatterer size is much smaller than the wavelength. The phenomenon manifests itself as unusually strong scattering characterized by extraordinarily large values of the cross section even for arbitrarily weak scatterer strength. We establish analytically and numerically that th...

We calculate the difFerential cross section and the photon asymmetry of the reaction pd m x d for incident photon energies below 1 GeV and compare with data at 8 = 130'. Our formalism, based on the spectator-on-mass-shell approximation, is fully relativistic and uses the de% vertex of Buck and Gross and a recently developed model for the elementary 7N -+ xN amplitude that describes well the fir...

The present status of experimental data of proton-induced reactions is reviewed, with particular attention to total reaction cross section, elastic and inelastic scattering cross section, double-differential particle production cross section, isotope production cross section, and activation cross section.

To avoid the spatial variation of scattering characteristic effect, a three-dimensional synthetic aperture radar (3-D SAR) imaging based radar cross section (RCS) extraction technique with fixed transmitter is developed. The 3-D SAR image is used to extract targets’ RCS, so it can spatially distinguish different parts of a complex object, or the targets’ RCS from environment. With the abilities...

The classical applications of Weibull statistical theory of size effect in quasi-brittle structures such as reinforced concrete structures, rock masses, ice plates, or tough ceramic parts are heing reexamined in light of recent results. After a brief review of the statistical weakest-link model. distinctions between structures that fail hy initiation of macroscopic crack growth (metal structure...

Searches for standard model Higgs boson production in p¯ p collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV are carried out for Higgs boson masses (mH) in the range 100 ≤ mH ≤ 200 GeV/c 2. The contributing production processes include gluon-gluon fusion (gg →H), associated production (q ¯ q →V H) and vector boson fusion (q ¯ q →q ¯ qH). Analyses are conducted over an array of distinct final states with integrated ...