The Atmospheric Integrated Research and Monitoring Network (AIRMoN) of NOAA is a research program aimed at developing and implementing improved dry and wet deposition monitoring methodologies. For dry deposition, the array is built on the basis of air-surface exchange research stations, originally set up as the `CORE/Satellite Dry Deposition Inferential Methoda array under the National Acid Pre...

We propose a new two-dimensional numerical scheme to solve the Saint-Venant system of shallow water equations in the presence of partially flooded cells. Our method is well-balanced, positivity preserving, and handles dry states. The latter is ensured by using the draining time step technique in the time integration process, which guarantees non-negative water depths. Unlike previous schemes, o...

background: many azoospermic patients with non obstructive azoospermia (noa) are candidate for testicular sperm extraction (tese) and in vitro fertilization. because sperm might be present in some but not all parts of the testes of such men, multiple sampling of testicular tissue are usually necessary to increase the probability of sperm finding. sperm finding can be done by two methods: 1) cla...

In partially wet granular beds, liquid migrates between particles due to collisions and contacts. This, in turn, influences the flow behaviour of bed. We investigate redistribution moving monodisperse a rotating drum using Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations. For weak capillary forces, re-distribution, induced by continuous particles, leads concentration core bed, where is quasi-static. H...

The construction of physics-based models of the simultaneous heat and mass transfer on the air-side surface of aircooled fin-and-tube heat exchangers during dehumidification can present distinct challenges. Because only part of the external surface of a finite length finned tube may be wetted in the radial and/or axial directions, the determination of the wet/dry boundary for this partially wet...

This paper examines, by argument, the dynamics of sequences of behavioural choices made, when non-cooperative restricted-memory agents learn in partially observable stochastic games. These sequences of combined agent strategies (joint-policies) can be thought of as a walk through the space of all possible joint-policies. We argue that this walk, while containing random elements, is also driven ...

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Strong Cyclic Planning aims at generating iterative plans that only allow loops so far as there is a chance to reach the goal. The problem is already significantly complex for fully observable domains; when considering partially observable domains, even providing a formal definition is far from straightforward. In this work, we provide a formal definition of Strong Cyclic Planning under Partial...

Pilea peperomioides Diels (Urticaceae) is a semi-succulent herbaceous species native to south-western China that has become popular in cultivation as an ornamental plant. To investigate whether this possesses the capacity for CAM photosynthesis, measurements were made of CO2 gas exchange and titratable acidity plants under both well-watered water-deficit conditions. Plants found assimilate almo...