In recent years, the subjects of water, carbon, and global climate change have attracted worldwide attention by scientists and the media. Climate change, whether associated with humaninduced or natural variations, has and will continue to be important to policy makers and the public. It is clear from reports such as that by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1] that Earth obs...

Recent years have witnessed an increased interest towards compression-based methods and their applications to remote sensing, as these have a data-driven and parameter-free approach and can be thus succesfully employed in several applications, especially in image information mining. This paper expands the algorithmic information theory frame, on which these methods are based. On the one hand, a...

There are four different stable climate states for pure water atmospheres, as might exist on so-called "waterworlds." I map these as a function of solar constant for planets ranging in size from Mars-sized to 10 Earth-mass. The states are as follows: globally ice covered (Ts ⪅ 245 K), cold and damp (270 ⪅ Ts ⪅ 290 K), hot and moist (350 ⪅ Ts ⪅ 550 K), and very hot and dry (Tsx2A86;900 K). No st...

Multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) production and sales figures are the highest among fine-ceramic products developed in the past 30 years. The total worldwide production and sales reached 550 billion pieces and 6 billion dollars, respectively in 2000. In the course of progress, the development of base-metal electrode (BME) technology played an important role in expanding the application area....

Transiting planets have greatly expanded and diversified the exoplanet field. These planets provide greater access to characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and structure. The Kepler mission has been particularly successful in expanding the exoplanet inventory, even to planets smaller than the Earth. The orbital period sensitivity of the Kepler data is now extending into the Habitable Zones ...

Water is life, and without water, there would be no civilizations a vacant Earth. considered an abundant natural resource on the earth. covers 3/4 of surface. However, 97% available water earth salty oceanic only tiny fraction (3%) freshwater. This small portion supplies needs humans animals. freshwater exists in underground, rivers, lakes insufficient to cover all world’s demands. Thus, saving...

research rated 3a and 3b. A statement released by the council said, “The overall improvement in research ratings, combined with the limited amount of funds, means that there will inevitably be some reduction in levels of funding for departments rated below 5*.” Newby has estimated that an extra £200 million a year would have to be found if departments were to be funded on the same basis as befo...

this research intends to develop a method based on the artificial neural network (ann) to predict permanent earthquake-induced deformation of the earth dams and embankments. for this purpose, data sets of observations from 152 published case histories on the performance of the earth dams and embankments, during the past earthquakes, was used. in order to predict earthquake-induced deformation o...

Rare-earth silicates are the current standard material for use as environmental barrier coatings SiC-based ceramic matrix composites hot-section components in gas-turbine engines. Expanding design space to all available rare-earth elements facilitate optimizing functionality requires an understanding of systematic trends RE2Si2O7 properties. In this work, we combine first-principles calculation...