April 8 : Biologists have found the first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.According to a report in National Geographic News, the frog, named "Barbourula kalimantanensis",
Apr 8 : A new study has shown that common fears in humans are linked to genetic factors, which keep changing as children and adolescents age. The study found that genetic factors linked with fears appear to change as children
April 12, 2008 - The UVic Vikes women'srugby team was unable to give their head coach a victorious send off Saturdayafternoon, losing to the Seattle Breakers 43-12.Â
We dealt with an essential issue we believe which is Quality vs. Safety in Shipping. Shipping is not proud for achieving zero defects or accidents, as it should. Efforts in the past prior to 1998 for the industry to implement
Understanding the limitations of the Discounted Cash flow Methodology (DCF) has resulted in increased usage of the real option analysis for ship investment decisions under uncertainty. In this paper, our contribution is two-fold: We propose an equilibrium model for explaining
Power Supply Quality (PSQ) has become an important concern for ship electric systems. Thus, deviations of voltage from nominal values and wave-shapes could cause several problems onboard. Considering that ship system electrification eventually dominates according to the All Electric Ship
Recently, numerical simulation on the motions of ship moored in ports and harbours is carried out to evaluate property of the motions, and is applied to calculating harbour tranquillity directly. However, the simulations take much time, costs and knowledge on
Following the Exxon-Valdez incident the, Oil Pollution Act was enacted by the US government in 1990 mandating double hull construction tankers operating in US coastal tankers. Traditional Cost Benefit Analysis to investigate whether this requirement is cost efficient does not
The paper explores the rationale of embracing e-Governance models as a mean to improve port policy and decision making towards enhanced port performance and competitiveness. The paper establishes both the significance and the applicability of advanced port e-Governance models, based
This paper offers an overview of the three main current trends in the liner shipping market during the last 15 years: horizontal integration, vertical integration and the investment in bigger vessels. It tries to explain why these strategies took place
In automated DNA sequencing, the final algorithmic phase, referred to as basecalling, consists of the translation of four time signals in the form of peak sequences (electropherogram) into the corresponding sequence of bases. Commercial basecallers detect the peaks based on
In this paper, we present a general approach to shape characterisation and deformation analysis of 2D/3D deformable visual objects. In particular, we define a reference dynamic model, encoding morphological and functional properties of an objects class, capable of analysing different
This paper describes a digital system designed for the automatic detection and measurement of the velocity of moving objects in images acquired by means of a common TV-camera mounted onto a microscope. The main real-time features are: it can perform
This study presents a theoretical formalism accompanied with experimental evidence which demonstrates that aqueous insulin macromolecules, and complex metaphase macromolecules exhibit enhanced photophysical and metamaterial-like characteristics leading to an overall enhancement of the interacting optical fields. Clathrate-like structures, filled with
An implementation of the time invariant Kalman Filter using the General Chandrasekhar Algorithm is presented and compared to the classical one. A method is proposed to a-priori decide which implementation is faster.
We propose a new histogram generation method from the HSV colour space and show how it can be effectively used for temporal video segmentation. In our approach, combined human visual perception of colour and texture is captured in a single
Failures in a plant's electrical components are a major source of performance degradation and plant unavailability. In order to detect and monitor failure precursors and anomalies early in electrical systems, we have developed a signal processing method that can detect
In the present paper a comparative study of two possible combinations of the Backpropagation (BP) and a Genetic Algorithm (GA), for Neural Networks training is performed. The performance of these approaches is compared to each other and to each algorithm
In this paper, we propose a novel, completely automated method for the segmentation of lymphatic cell nuclei represented in microscopic specimen images. Actually, segmenting cell nuclei is the first, necessary step for developing an automated application for the early diagnostics
