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An Automated Land Subdivision Tool For Urban And Regional Planning: Concepts, Implementation And Testing, Rohan Wickramasuriya, Laurie A. Chisholm, Marjetta Puotinen, Nicholas Gill, Peter Klepeis
An Automated Land Subdivision Tool For Urban And Regional Planning: Concepts, Implementation And Testing, Rohan Wickramasuriya, Laurie A. Chisholm, Marjetta Puotinen, Nicholas Gill, Peter Klepeis
Rohan Wickramasuriya, Ph.D.
Simulation of the land subdivision process is useful in many applied and research areas. Planners use such tools to understand potential impacts of planning regulations prior to their implementation. While the credibility of both land-use change and urban growth models would be enhanced by integrating capabilities to simulate land subdivision, such research is lacking in the published literature. Of the few subdivision tools that exist, most are either not fully-automated or are unable to generate realistic subdivision layouts. This limits their applicability, particularly for high resolution land-use change models. In this paper, we present a fully-automated land subdivision tool that …
Branching Fractions Of The Cn + C3h6 Reaction Using Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometry: Evidence For The 3-Cyanopropene Product, Adam Trevitt, Talitha Selby, Craig Taatjes, Satchin Soorkia, J Savee, D L Osborn, S R Leone
Branching Fractions Of The Cn + C3h6 Reaction Using Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometry: Evidence For The 3-Cyanopropene Product, Adam Trevitt, Talitha Selby, Craig Taatjes, Satchin Soorkia, J Savee, D L Osborn, S R Leone
Adam Trevitt
The gas-phase CN + propene reaction is investigated using synchrotron photoionization mass spectrometry (SPIMS) over the 9.8 - 11.5 eV photon energy range. Experiments are conducted at room temperature in 4 Torr of He buffer gas. The CN + propene addition reaction produces two distinct product mass channels, C3H3N and C4H5N, corresponding to CH3 and H elimination, respectively. The CH3 and H elimination channels are measured to have branching fractions of 0.59 + 0.15 and 0.41 + 0.10, respectively. The absolute photoionization cross sections between 9.8 and 11.5 eV are measured for the three considered H-elimination coproducts: 1-, 2-, and …
Aeolian-Fluvial Interaction: Evidence For Late Quaternary Channel Change And Wind-Rift Linear Dune Formation In The Northwestern Simpson Desert, Australia, Gerald C. Nanson, Brian G. Jones, David M. Price, Tim Pietsch, C Bristow, Cameron B. Hollands
Aeolian-Fluvial Interaction: Evidence For Late Quaternary Channel Change And Wind-Rift Linear Dune Formation In The Northwestern Simpson Desert, Australia, Gerald C. Nanson, Brian G. Jones, David M. Price, Tim Pietsch, C Bristow, Cameron B. Hollands
B. G. Jones
In central Australia the most easterly extent of the MacDonnell Ranges borders the northwestern Simpson Desert where widely spaced strike ridges intercept the regional linear dunefield. Topographic basins have disrupted regional drainage lines and isolated dune sets from the main dunefield. In the western part of Camel Flat basin large, red coloured linear dunes of fine sand, ~ 74 ka and older, are oriented almost due north. Through gaps in the ranges the Todd River traversed the eastern part of the basin until ~25 ka when it apparently avulsed ~25 km eastwards to its present position. Subsequently, linear dunes, smaller, …
A Spectral-Collocation Method For Pricing Perpetual American Puts With Stochastic Volatility, Song-Ping Zhu, Wenting Chen
A Spectral-Collocation Method For Pricing Perpetual American Puts With Stochastic Volatility, Song-Ping Zhu, Wenting Chen
Professor Song-Ping Zhu
Based on the Legendre pseudospectral method, we propose a numerical treatment for pricing perpetual American put option with stochastic volatility. In this simple approach, a nonlinear algebraic equation system is first derived, and then solved by the Gauss–Newton algorithm. The convergence of the current scheme is ensured by constructing a test example similar to the original problem, and comparing the numerical option prices with those produced by the classical Projected SOR (PSOR) method. The results of our numerical experiments suggest that the proposed scheme is both accurate and efficient, since the spectral accuracy can be easily achieved within a small …
A Numerical Model For Multiphase Flow Based On The Gmpps Formulation, Part I Kinematics, Song-Ping Zhu, Frank Bierbrauer
A Numerical Model For Multiphase Flow Based On The Gmpps Formulation, Part I Kinematics, Song-Ping Zhu, Frank Bierbrauer
Professor Song-Ping Zhu
The CFD modeling of two dimensional multiphase ows is a useful tool in industry, although accurate modeling itself remains a difficult task. One of the difficulties is to track the complicated topological deformations of the interfaces between di erent phases. This paper describes a marker-particle method designed to track fluid interfaces for fluid ows of at least three phases. The interface-tracking scheme presented in this paper is the first part of a series of papers presenting our complete model based on a one-field Godunov marker-particle projection scheme (GMPPS). In this part, we shall focus on the presentation of the interface-tracking …
System Architecture And Mobility Management For Mobile Immersive Communications, Mehran Dowlatshahi, Farzad Safaei
System Architecture And Mobility Management For Mobile Immersive Communications, Mehran Dowlatshahi, Farzad Safaei
Professor Farzad Safaei
We propose a system design for delivery of immersive communications to mobile wireless devices based on a distributed proxy model. It is demonstrated that this architecture addresses key technical challenges for the delivery of these services, that is, constraints on link capacity and power consumption in mobile devices. However, additional complexity is introduced with respect to application layer mobility management. The paper proposes three possible methods for updating proxy assignments in response to mobility management and compares the performance of these methods.
Distributing Network Game Servers For Improved Geographical Scalability, Paul A. Boustead, Farzad Safaei, Jeremy Brun
Distributing Network Game Servers For Improved Geographical Scalability, Paul A. Boustead, Farzad Safaei, Jeremy Brun
Professor Farzad Safaei
World-wide multiplayer games present several scalability challenges for large-scale deployment. In recent years, significant research has been devoted to scaling in terms of number of players so that the same virtual world can accommodate larger number of simultaneous avatars. A possible solution is to use grid computing techniques for distribution of processing over a cluster or a distributed set of servers. Scalability with respect to geographical distribution of players is another challenge. Large geographical distances between players introduces propagation delays which are impossible to avoid. Without proper design, responsiveness of the application to user inputs is degraded even when there …
Facial Expression Recognition For Multiplayer Online Games, Ce Zhan, Wanqing Li, Philip O. Ogunbona, Farzad Safaei
Facial Expression Recognition For Multiplayer Online Games, Ce Zhan, Wanqing Li, Philip O. Ogunbona, Farzad Safaei
Professor Farzad Safaei
The Multiplayer Online Game (MOG) becomes more popular than any other types of computer games for its collaboration, communication and interaction ability. However, compared with the ordinary human communication, the MOG still has many limitations, especially in communication using facial expressions. Although detailed facial animation has already been achieved in a number of MOGs, players have to use text commands to control avatars expressions. In this paper, we briefly review the state of the art in facial expression recognition and propose an automatic expression recognition system that can be integrated into a MOG to control the avatar’s facial expressions. We …
Synthesis And Optimization Of Fluorine-Free Y And Cu Precursor Solution For Mod Processing Of Ybco Coated Conductor, Jaimoo Yoo, Young-Kuk Kim, Kookchae Chung, Jaewoong Ko, Xiaolin Wang, S X. Dou
Synthesis And Optimization Of Fluorine-Free Y And Cu Precursor Solution For Mod Processing Of Ybco Coated Conductor, Jaimoo Yoo, Young-Kuk Kim, Kookchae Chung, Jaewoong Ko, Xiaolin Wang, S X. Dou
Shi Xue Dou
MOD solutions for YBCO coated conductors were synthesized with fluorine-free Y & Cu precursor. The fluorine content in the precursor solution was significantly reduced and a fast calcination profile was realized. A crack-free & thick precursor film was successfully obtained just after less than 2 hours of calcination in wet O2 atmosphere. Optimization of the precursor solution with Sm addition enables further improvement of thickness and uniformity of precursor films. The calcinated precursor film was successfully converted to dense and uniform YBCO film after annealing in wet Ar/O2 atmosphere. The measured critical current value was about 273 A/cm-w (Jc ~ …
A Study On The Charge-Discharge Mechanism Of Co3o4 As An Anode For The Li Ion Secondary Battery, Yong-Mook Kang, Min-Sang Song, Jin-Ho Kim, Hyun-Seok Kim, Min-Sik Park, Jai-Young Lee, Hua-Kun Liu, S X. Dou
A Study On The Charge-Discharge Mechanism Of Co3o4 As An Anode For The Li Ion Secondary Battery, Yong-Mook Kang, Min-Sang Song, Jin-Ho Kim, Hyun-Seok Kim, Min-Sik Park, Jai-Young Lee, Hua-Kun Liu, S X. Dou
Shi Xue Dou
Co3O4 has shown acceptable electrochemical properties as the anode material of Li secondary batteries. In detail, its capacity reached about 700 mAh/g, twice as high as graphite, and 93.4% of initial capacity was retained after 100 cycles. EIS (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) analyses revealed that after the 1st cycle, the insertion or extraction of Li ions in Co3O4 can occur homogeneously and reversibly (randless-like behavior, homogeneous mixture: Co + Li2O (in the state of Li insertion), Co3O4 (in the state of Li extraction)). In fact, the coulombic efficiency of Co3O4 was almost 100% except for the 1st cycle. According to P. …
Silicon Oil: A Cheap Liquid Additive For Enhancing In-Field Critical Current Density In Mgb2, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenxiang Cheng, S X. Dou
Silicon Oil: A Cheap Liquid Additive For Enhancing In-Field Critical Current Density In Mgb2, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenxiang Cheng, S X. Dou
Shi Xue Dou
In this work, the authors report on significant flux pinning enhancement in MgB2 that has been easily obtained using a liquid additive, silicon oil. MgB2 bulk samples with 0 up to 30 wt % silicon oil added were prepared by an in situ reaction. Results showed that the Si and C released from the decomposition of the silicon oil formed Mg2Si and substituted into B sites, respectively. Increasing the amount of the Si oil up to 15 wt % has resulted in the reduction of the lattice parameters, as well as Tc and R(300 K)/R(Tc) values, accompanied by a significant …
Flux-Pinning Mechanism In Silicone-Oil Doped Mgb2: Evidence For Charge-Carrier Mean Free Path Fluctuation Pinning, Shaban R. Ghorbani, Xiaolin Wang, S X. Dou, Sung-Ik Lee, Md S. Hossain
Flux-Pinning Mechanism In Silicone-Oil Doped Mgb2: Evidence For Charge-Carrier Mean Free Path Fluctuation Pinning, Shaban R. Ghorbani, Xiaolin Wang, S X. Dou, Sung-Ik Lee, Md S. Hossain
Shi Xue Dou
Flux-pinning mechanism of MgB2 doped with 10 wt % silicone-oil sintered at low and high temperatures has been investigated by magnetic measurements. The field dependence of the critical current density, jc(B), was analysed within the collective pinning model. A crossover field, Bsb, from the single vortex to the small vortex bundle-pinning regime was observed. For both types of sintered samples, the temperature dependence of Bsb(T) at low temperature is in good agreement with the δl pinning mechanism, i.e., pinning associated with charge-carrier mean free path fluctuation. At temperatures close to the critical temperature, however, there is evidence for δTc pinning, …
Identification Of Human Plasma Proteins As Major Clients For The Extracellular Chaperone Clusterin, Amy R. Wyatt, Mark R. Wilson
Identification Of Human Plasma Proteins As Major Clients For The Extracellular Chaperone Clusterin, Amy R. Wyatt, Mark R. Wilson
Mark R Wilson
Clusterin (CLU) is an extracellular chaperone that is likely to play an important role in protein folding quality control. This study identified three deposition disease-associated proteins as major plasma clients for clusterin by studying CLU-client complexes formed in response to physiologically relevant stress (shear stress, similar to 36 dynes/cm(2) at 37 degrees C). Analysis of plasma samples by size exclusion chromatography indicated that (i) relative to control plasma, stressed plasma contained proportionally more soluble protein species of high molecular weight, and (ii) high molecular weight species were far more abundant when proteins purified by anti-CLU immunoaffinity chromatography from stressed plasma …
Further Evidence For Small-Bodied Hominins From The Late Pleistocene Of Flores Indonesia, Michael Morwood, P. Brown, Jatmiko, T. Sutikna, E.W. Saptomo, Kira Westaway, R. A. Due, Richard Roberts, T Maeda, S Wasisto, T Djubiantono
Further Evidence For Small-Bodied Hominins From The Late Pleistocene Of Flores Indonesia, Michael Morwood, P. Brown, Jatmiko, T. Sutikna, E.W. Saptomo, Kira Westaway, R. A. Due, Richard Roberts, T Maeda, S Wasisto, T Djubiantono
Richard G Roberts
Homo floresiensis was recovered from Late Pleistocene deposits on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, but has the stature, limb proportions and endocranial volume of African Pliocene Australopithecus 1. The holotype of the species (LB1), excavated in 2003 from Liang Bua, consisted of a partial skeleton minus the arms. Here we describe additional H. floresiensis remains excavated from the cave in 2004. These include arm bones belonging to the holotype skeleton, a second adult mandible, and postcranial material from other individuals. We can now reconstruct the body proportions of H. floresiensis with some certainty. The finds further demonstrate …
Sediment Mixing At Nonda Rock: Investigations Of Stratigraphic Integrity At An Early Archaeological Site In Northern Australia And Implications For The Human Colonisation Of The Continent, Richard Roberts, C White, L K Fifield, Christian Turney, M Bird, John Tibby, Bruno David, John Magee, Jerome Mialanes
Sediment Mixing At Nonda Rock: Investigations Of Stratigraphic Integrity At An Early Archaeological Site In Northern Australia And Implications For The Human Colonisation Of The Continent, Richard Roberts, C White, L K Fifield, Christian Turney, M Bird, John Tibby, Bruno David, John Magee, Jerome Mialanes
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Equivalent Dose Distributions From Single Grains Of Quartz At Sibudu, South Africa: Context, Causes And Consequences For Optical Dating Of Archaeological Deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey Duller, Ann Wintle
Equivalent Dose Distributions From Single Grains Of Quartz At Sibudu, South Africa: Context, Causes And Consequences For Optical Dating Of Archaeological Deposits, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Geoffrey Duller, Ann Wintle
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Initial Speleothem Results From Western Flores And Eastern Java, Indonesia: Were Climate Changes From 47 To 5ka Responsible For The Extinction Of Homo Floresiensis?, Richard Roberts, Allan Chivas, T. Sutikna, Michael Morwood, J Zhao, Kira Westaway
Initial Speleothem Results From Western Flores And Eastern Java, Indonesia: Were Climate Changes From 47 To 5ka Responsible For The Extinction Of Homo Floresiensis?, Richard Roberts, Allan Chivas, T. Sutikna, Michael Morwood, J Zhao, Kira Westaway
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Redating The Advance Of The New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier During The Last Termination: Evidence For Asynchronous Climate Change, Richard Roberts, Christian Turney, Matt Mcglone, J Cooper, J Wilmshurst, N De Jonge, C Prior
Redating The Advance Of The New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier During The Last Termination: Evidence For Asynchronous Climate Change, Richard Roberts, Christian Turney, Matt Mcglone, J Cooper, J Wilmshurst, N De Jonge, C Prior
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Catalysts For Stone Age Innovations: What Might Have Triggered Two Short-Lived Bursts Of Technological And Behavioral Innovation In Southern Africa During The Middle Stone Age?, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs
Catalysts For Stone Age Innovations: What Might Have Triggered Two Short-Lived Bursts Of Technological And Behavioral Innovation In Southern Africa During The Middle Stone Age?, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Stochastic Modelling Of Multi-Grain Equivalent Dose (De) Distributions: Implications For Osl Dating Of Sediment Mixtures, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold
Stochastic Modelling Of Multi-Grain Equivalent Dose (De) Distributions: Implications For Osl Dating Of Sediment Mixtures, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Single And Multiple Grains Of Quartz From Perennially Frozen Loess In Western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison With Radiocarbon Chronologies For The Late Pleistocene Dawson Tephra, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, F Brock, D Froese, C Bronk Ramsey
Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating Of Single And Multiple Grains Of Quartz From Perennially Frozen Loess In Western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison With Radiocarbon Chronologies For The Late Pleistocene Dawson Tephra, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, F Brock, D Froese, C Bronk Ramsey
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Testing Times: Old And New Chronologies For The Howieson's Poort And Still Bay Industries In Environmental Context, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs
Testing Times: Old And New Chronologies For The Howieson's Poort And Still Bay Industries In Environmental Context, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
A Dual-Aliquot Regenerative-Dose Protocol (Dap) For Thermoluminescence (Tl) Dating Of Quartz Sediments Using The Light-Sensitive And Isothermally Stimulated Red Emissions, Richard Roberts, Kira Westaway
A Dual-Aliquot Regenerative-Dose Protocol (Dap) For Thermoluminescence (Tl) Dating Of Quartz Sediments Using The Light-Sensitive And Isothermally Stimulated Red Emissions, Richard Roberts, Kira Westaway
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
A Revised Burial Dose Estimation Procedure For Optical Dating Of Young And Modern-Age Sediments, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, R.F. Galbraith, S Delong
A Revised Burial Dose Estimation Procedure For Optical Dating Of Young And Modern-Age Sediments, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, R.F. Galbraith, S Delong
Richard G Roberts
No abstract provided.
Illuminating Southeast Asian Prehistory : New Archaeological And Paleoanthropological Frontiers For Luminescence Dating, Richard G. Roberts, Michael J. Morwood, Kira E. Westaway
Illuminating Southeast Asian Prehistory : New Archaeological And Paleoanthropological Frontiers For Luminescence Dating, Richard G. Roberts, Michael J. Morwood, Kira E. Westaway
Richard G Roberts
Since the explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace and Eugène Dubois in the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia has been one of the world's focal points for studies of biogeography and biodiversity, human evolution and dispersal, environmental change, and the spread of culture, farming, and language. Yet despite its prominence, reliable chronologies are not available for many of the critical archaeological, evolutionary, and environmental turning points that have taken place in the region during the last 1.5 million years. In this paper, we discuss some of these chronological problems and describe how luminescence dating may help overcome them. "Luminescence dating" is a …
Single-Grain Osl Dating At La Grotte Des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: Improved Age Constraints For The Middle Paleolithic Levels, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Michael Meyer, V Aldeias, M El Hajraoui, H Dibbie
Single-Grain Osl Dating At La Grotte Des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: Improved Age Constraints For The Middle Paleolithic Levels, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Michael Meyer, V Aldeias, M El Hajraoui, H Dibbie
Richard G Roberts
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) measurements of individual quartz grains are reported for Middle Paleolithic (MP) or Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits in La Grotte des Contrebandiers, Morocco. Single-grain measurements enable rejection of grains that may lead to under- or over-estimation of age due to malign luminescence properties or remobilisation of grains after burial. We identified the former using a range of experimental procedures and objective rejection criteria. Three post-depositional factors influenced the distribution pattern of equivalent dose (De) values for the remaining single grains: the disintegration of roof spall liberating unbleached, older grains into otherwise well-bleached sediments; the intrusion of …
Nanocrystalline Nio Hollow Spheres In Conjunction With Cmc For Lithium-Ion Batteries, Chao Zhong, Jiazhao Wang, Shulei Chou, Konstantin Konstantinov, Mokhlesur Rahman, Hua Liu
Nanocrystalline Nio Hollow Spheres In Conjunction With Cmc For Lithium-Ion Batteries, Chao Zhong, Jiazhao Wang, Shulei Chou, Konstantin Konstantinov, Mokhlesur Rahman, Hua Liu
Shulei Chou
Hollow spherical NiO particles were prepared using the spray pyrolysis method with different concentrations of precursor. The electrochemical properties of the NiO electrodes, which contained a new type of binder, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), were examined for comparison with NiO electrodes with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) binder. The electrochemical performance of NiO electrodes using CMC binder was significantly improved. For the cell made from 0.3 mol L−1 precursor, the irreversible capacity loss between the first discharge and charge is about 43 and 24% for the electrode with PVDF and CMC binder, respectively. The cell with NiO–CMC electrode has a much higher discharge …
A Generalized Algorithm For The Generation Of Correlated Rayleigh Fading Envelopes In Wireless Channels, Le Chung Tran, Tadeusz Wysocki, Alfred Mertins, Jennifer Seberry
A Generalized Algorithm For The Generation Of Correlated Rayleigh Fading Envelopes In Wireless Channels, Le Chung Tran, Tadeusz Wysocki, Alfred Mertins, Jennifer Seberry
Dr Le Chung Tran
Although generation of correlated Rayleigh fading envelopes has been intensively considered in the literature, all conventional methods have their own shortcomings, which seriously impede their applicability. In this paper, a very general, straightforward algorithm for the generation of an arbitrary number of Rayleigh envelopes with any desired, equal or unequal power, in wireless channels either with or without Doppler frequency shifts, is proposed. The proposed algorithm can be applied to the case of spatial correlation, such as with multiple antennas in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems, or spectral correlation between the random processes like in Orthogonal Frequency Division …