Hiroyoshi Kubo, a,1,2 Anton J. M. Peeters, b,1 Mark G. M. Aarts, c Andy Pereira, c and Maarten Koornneef b a Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan b Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen Agricultural University, Dreijenlaan 2, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands c Department of Molecular Biology, DLO-Centre for Plant Breeding and Reproduction Rese...

Recently, the use of microtremor techniques for subsoil investigation has increased significantly. The HVSR (Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio) technique allows, in many cases, obtain a seismo-stratigraphic reconstruction and identify areas with similar seismic behavior. However, stratigraphic interpretation peaks still remains subjective choice linked priori information. A non-hierarchical...

In this paper, we propose a robust motion estimation algorithm using uncalibrated 3D motion model considering depth discontinuity. Most of the previous direct motion estimation algorithms with 3D motion model compute the depth value through the local smoothing, which result in erroneous results at depth discontinuity. In this paper, we overcome this problem at depth discontinuity by adding disc...

nathalie sarraute belongs to the the modern novelists who take a discrete- fragmentary and physical-intuitive outlook to the representation of the human psyche. in fact, according to sarraute, it is only within dialogism that the actualities of the human psyche manifest themselves, and such actualities stem from strains and stresses between characters which run through the underlying subspace o...

We consider the approximate solution of the initial value problem du du , .. . . _ = _ „(*,0) = »(*), by a dissipative Galerkin method. When v is taken to have a jump discontinuity at zero, that discontinuity will propagate along x + t = 0, in the true solution u. Estimates in L^ and Lx of the pollution effects of the discontinuity are found. These estimates show those effects to decay exponent...

A total of 336 three-component strong-motion recordings from the Mw 6.35 Niu Dou earthquake of 25 June 1995 at a focal depth of 39.9 km in northern Taiwan are used to study the effects on strong ground motion due to Moho reflection of S waves. The residuals of both horizontal peak ground acceleration (PGA) and peak ground velocity (PGV) recorded from the earthquake are analyzed. The results con...

We present BV photometry of the Sculptor dwarf galaxy to V = 22. These data give evidence for a bimodality in Sculptor’s metallicity distribution based on a discontinuity in the luminosities of horizontal branch (HB) stars and by the presence of two distinct red giant branch (RGB) bumps. A consistent picture of the evolved stars in Sculptor is given by the presence of (1) a metal-poor populatio...

[1] Broadband data from the Meso-America Subduction Experiment (MASE) line in central Mexico were used to image the subducted Cocos plate and the overriding continental lithosphere beneath central Mexico using a generalized radon transform based migration. Our images provide insight into the process of subducting relatively young oceanic lithosphere and its complex geometry beneath continental ...

It is well established that the free-space Green's function can be recovered from the two-point cross-correlation function of a random noise field if the noise is white and isotropic. Ambient noise in the ocean rarely satisfies either of these conditions. However, a non-uniform spectrum could be pre-whitened by the application of a suitable filter but anisotropy cannot be so readily eliminated....

In epidemiology, the regression discontinuity design has received increasing attention recently and might be an alternative to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate treatment effects. In regression discontinuity, treatment is assigned above a certain threshold of an assignment variable for which the treatment effect is adjusted in the analysis. We performed simulations and a validatio...