12 Benthic nitrogen (N2) fixation and sulfate reduction (SR) were investigated in the Peruvian 13 oxygen minimum zone (OMZ). Sediment samples, were retrieved by a multiple corer at six 14 stations (70 1025 m water depth) along a depth transect at 12°S, covering anoxic and 15 hypoxic bottom water conditions. Benthic N2 fixation was detected at all sites using the 16 acetylene reduction assay, wi...

Mohs micrographic surgery is the technique of surgically removing skin tumors by gradually excising thin layers and visualizing under a microscope till a tumor-free zone is obtained. During the surgical procedure, visible tumors are surgically removed. During the second stage, if tumor margins are clear with the positive specimen at depth, only depth cavitations need to be done without altering...

New techniques for reducing the depth of circuits for cryptographic applications are described. These techniques also keep the number of gates quite small. The result, when applied to the AES S-Box, is a circuit with depth 16 and only 128 gates. For the inverse, it is also depth 16 and has only 127 gates. There is a shared middle part, common to both the S-Box and its inverse, consisting of 63 ...

An efficient system that upsamples depth map captured by Microsoft Kinect while jointly reducing the effect of noise is presented. The upsampling is carried by detecting and exploiting the piecewise locally planar structures of the downsampled depth map, based on corresponding high-resolution RGB image. The amount of noise is reduced by accumulating the downsampled data simultaneously. By benef...

According to research, between 15 to 20 percent of the total energy consumption of every country is used for residential spaces. This amount is explanatory of the high cost and will follow the destruction of natural resources and environmental demolition. The aim of this research is to recognize earth thermal ability and its usage in public buildings and especially in private buildings in order...