A Semi-Empirical Wave Crest Distribution of Random Directional Wave Fields

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elzbieta M. Bitner-Gregersen ◽  
Alessandro Toffoli
Keyword(s):  
Probabilistic Models ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Wave Crest ◽  
Wave Fields ◽  
The North ◽  
Directional Wave ◽  
The One ◽  
Semi Empirical ◽  
Directional Sea States

Laboratory data of random directional wave fields have been used to investigate the combined effect of higher order nonlinearity and directional spreading on the wave crest distribution. Different sea states with a variety of combination of steepness and directional spreading have been considered, ranging from long to short crested wave fields. The analysis is also supported by numerical simulations. A 2-parameter Weibull distribution has been fitted to the experimental data and the related parameters have been parameterized as a function of a general version of the Benjamin-Feir Index for directional sea states recently presented by Mori et al. [1]. Long-term distributions of the one-dimensional and two-dimensional Benjamin-Feir Index have been studied based on the hindcast data from the North Atlantic and probabilistic models to describe them are proposed.

Preaching and Sermons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Denominational Identity ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Prompted by the convulsions of the late eighteenth century and inspired by the expansion of evangelicalism across the North Atlantic world, Protestant Dissenters from the 1790s eagerly subscribed to a millennial vision of a world transformed through missionary activism and religious revival. Voluntary societies proliferated in the early nineteenth century to spread the gospel and transform society at home and overseas. In doing so, they engaged many thousands of converts who felt the call to share their experience of personal conversion with others. Though social respectability and business methods became a notable feature of Victorian Nonconformity, the religious populism of the earlier period did not disappear and religious revival remained a key component of Dissenting experience. The impact of this revitalization was mixed. On the one hand, growth was not sustained in the long term and, to some extent, involvement in interdenominational activity undermined denominational identity; on the other hand, Nonconformists gained a social and political prominence they had not enjoyed since the middle of the seventeenth century and their efforts laid the basis for the twentieth-century explosion of evangelicalism in Africa, Asia, and South America.

scholarly journals EXTREME WAVE PREDICTION USING DIRECTIONAL DATA

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (20) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
M.C. Deo ◽  
R. Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Directional Data ◽  
Irish Sea ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Wave Data ◽  
The North ◽  
Wave Heights ◽  
Directional Wave ◽  
The Irish Sea ◽  
Height Predictions

Potential inconsistencies in the predictions of long term wave heights can be experienced as a result of different methods of analysis possible when using directional wave data. This paper attempts to illustrate some of them. It involves analysis of two sets of directional wave data - one froa a coastal location in the Irish Sea and another from an offshore location in the North Sea. An attempt is made to eliminate the discrepancies between the long term return-value wave height predictions based upon the conditional height distributions associa ted with different direction sectors and those derived from the oonl-directional data set.

scholarly journals Influence of NAO on forming the UTCI index in Kłodzko

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1555-1567
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Głogowski ◽  
Krystyna Bryś ◽  
Tadeusz Bryś
Keyword(s):  
Climate Index ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
The North ◽  
Thermal Climate ◽  
Bioclimatic Conditions ◽  
The One ◽  
The North Atlantic Oscillation ◽  
Meteorological Elements

Abstract The aim of this paper is to understand the role of the macrocirculation factor in shaping the dynamics of long-term bioclimatic conditions, with reference to Kłodzko in the Polish part of the Central Sudetes. The variability of bioclimatic conditions in Kłodzko for the period 1966–2017 was analysed, exposing its local specificity. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) was taken as an indicator of the analysed bioclimatic features. The influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on the variability of this index and its constituent meteorological elements, e.g. air temperature, vapour pressure, wind speed, and solar conditions, was examined. On the basis of the winter NAO Hurrell coefficient, the analysed years were divided into two opposing groups representing either a negative or positive Hurrell index. A comparison between these two year-groups for the mean values of UTCI and the examined meteorological elements showed a clear intergroup difference in these values. Except for cloudiness, the importance of the macrocirculation genesis of NAO was verified by the statistically significant correlation between the Hurrell index on the one hand and the tested UTCI index and its constituent meteorological elements on the other.

scholarly journals Editorial

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. i-iv
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Economic Resources ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Moral Orientation ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
The One ◽  
Globalized World

This issue coincides with several momentous events and trends in the world atlarge and Muslim nations. The heads or top representatives of the 57 Muslimmajoritynations have held an extraordinary meeting at Makkah under theOrganization of Islamic Conferences’ (OIC) aegis. A major goal is to reactivateand empower the OIC so that it can actively help the ummah deal with itshuge opportunities and challenges. Several salient issues were stressed: theneed for closer interaction, collaboration, and internal reform leading to apeaceful, pluralistic, and moderate disposition of Islam and Muslims.Muslim nations are trying to address their internal weaknesses and buildupon their strengths. In terms of human and material resources, the Muslimworld is composed of three kinds of countries: those with large populationsand poor economies, small populations and rich economies, and with bothfairly large populations backed by rich economic resources. They seem tobelieve that Iraq and Iran, the very backbone of the third category, are currentlytargeted for long-term occupation. They are exploring how to compensatefor one another’s drawbacks and reinforcing their assets.The OIC declaration, hailed as a historic turning point, stresses thatMuslims take responsibility for their present plight and stop blaming others.In addition, the organization will be renamed, get a new charter, and be runby mandatory contributions from member nations. It will also feature conflict-resolution and consensus-building mechanisms to resolve both minorand major conflicts, such as Palestine and Kashmir. The ummah and theworld now wait to see whether such statements are more than rhetoric.Concurrently, there is an increasing awareness of the futility of cardinaldirectionalconflicts and the “clash of civilizations” between the West andthe East, or between the North and the South. Ever more Muslim and otherintellectuals realize that the real confrontation is between powerful globalforces of greed and exploitative profiteering on the one hand, and people ofcandor, conscience, and moral orientation on the other. Among the individualsand organizations in the latter camp, there is growing realization of theneed for societal reform toward pluralism, learning from each other, collectiveand consultative decision making, basic freedoms for all, peace withjustice, and institution building that is compatible with the speed, complexity,and magnitude of the emerging globalized world ...

Subalternity across the Indian Ocean: the Sidis of Gujarat

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Rosa Maria Perez
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The One

Abstract In Gujarat, as in other states of India, the Sidis illustrate the long-term African existence in India, which was dominantly analyzed through Eurocentric categories substantiated either by the semantics of slavery or, more recently, by the paradigm of the African diaspora in the world. Both were mainly produced in and for the North Atlantic realm. This article aims at identifying the intersection between the two margins of the Indian Ocean grounded on an ethnohistory of the Sidis of Gir, in Saurashtra. As an anthropologist, it is at the level of contemporary Indian society within the dialectic and dialogic framework of relationships between the Sidis and the other groups that I observed them, being aware of the discontinuities existing within this category on the one hand and, on the other, of a common idiom through which the Sidis communicate their “Africanness.”

Long-term Cyclic Variations of Prominences, Green and Red Coronae over Solar Cycles

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Vojtech Rušin ◽  
Milan Minarovjech ◽  
Milan Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Emission Lines ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Solar Cycles ◽  
The South ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Local Maxima ◽  
The North ◽  
Cyclic Variations

AbstractLong-term cyclic variations in the distribution of prominences and intensities of green (530.3 nm) and red (637.4 nm) coronal emission lines over solar cycles 18–23 are presented. Polar prominence branches will reach the poles at different epochs in cycle 23: the north branch at the beginning in 2002 and the south branch a year later (2003), respectively. The local maxima of intensities in the green line show both poleward- and equatorward-migrating branches. The poleward branches will reach the poles around cycle maxima like prominences, while the equatorward branches show a duration of 18 years and will end in cycle minima (2007). The red corona shows mostly equatorward branches. The possibility that these branches begin to develop at high latitudes in the preceding cycles cannot be excluded.

Radioimmunotherapy for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
R. G. Meyer ◽  
W. Herr ◽  
A. Helisch ◽  
P. Bartenstein ◽  
I. Buchmann
Keyword(s):  
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia ◽  
Myeloid Leukaemia ◽  
Primary Tumour ◽  
The Other ◽  
Haematopoietic Stem Cell ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Primary Reduction ◽  
The One ◽  
Acute Myeloid

SummaryThe prognosis of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) has improved considerably by introduction of aggressive consolidation chemotherapy and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Nevertheless, only 20-30% of patients with AML achieve long-term diseasefree survival after SCT. The most common cause of treatment failure is relapse. Additionally, mortality rates are significantly increased by therapy-related causes such as toxicity of chemotherapy and complications of SCT. Including radioimmunotherapies in the treatment of AML and myelodyplastic syndrome (MDS) allows for the achievement of a pronounced antileukaemic effect for the reduction of relapse rates on the one hand. On the other hand, no increase of acute toxicity and later complications should be induced. These effects are important for the primary reduction of tumour cells as well as for the myeloablative conditioning before SCT.This paper provides a systematic and critical review of the currently used radionuclides and immunoconjugates for the treatment of AML and MDS and summarizes the literature on primary tumour cell reductive radioimmunotherapies on the one hand and conditioning radioimmunotherapies before SCT on the other hand.

Hidden “holes” in the capital of banks and the supply of credit to the real sector of economy

2018 ◽  
pp. 49-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Mamonov
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
Capital Management ◽  
Loan Loss ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
The One

Our analysis documents that the existence of hidden “holes” in the capital of not yet failed banks - while creating intertemporal pressure on the actual level of capital - leads to changing of maturity of loans supplied rather than to contracting of their volume. Long-term loans decrease, whereas short-term loans rise - and, what is most remarkably, by approximately the same amounts. Standardly, the higher the maturity of loans the higher the credit risk and, thus, the more loan loss reserves (LLP) banks are forced to create, increasing the pressure on capital. Banks that already hide “holes” in the capital, but have not yet faced with license withdrawal, must possess strong incentives to shorten the maturity of supplied loans. On the one hand, it raises the turnovers of LLP and facilitates the flexibility of capital management; on the other hand, it allows increasing the speed of shifting of attracted deposits to loans to related parties in domestic or foreign jurisdictions. This enlarges the potential size of ex post revealed “hole” in the capital and, therefore, allows us to assume that not every loan might be viewed as a good for the economy: excessive short-term and insufficient long-term loans can produce the source for future losses.

Mafias on the Move

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Varese
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
The North ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
At Will

Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As this book explains, the truth is more complicated. The author has spent years researching mafia groups in Italy, Russia, the United States, and China, and argues that mafiosi often find themselves abroad against their will, rather than through a strategic plan to colonize new territories. Once there, they do not always succeed in establishing themselves. The book spells out the conditions that lead to their long-term success, namely sudden market expansion that is neither exploited by local rivals nor blocked by authorities. Ultimately the inability of the state to govern economic transformations gives mafias their opportunity. In a series of matched comparisons, the book charts the attempts of the Calabrese 'Ndrangheta to move to the north of Italy, and shows how the Sicilian mafia expanded to early twentieth-century New York, but failed around the same time to find a niche in Argentina. The book explains why the Russian mafia failed to penetrate Rome but succeeded in Hungary. A pioneering chapter on China examines the challenges that triads from Taiwan and Hong Kong find in branching out to the mainland. This book is both a compelling read and a sober assessment of the risks posed by globalization and immigration for the spread of mafias.

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