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Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2000, Rudens (169)

2000

Contents: M.Zepe. Water Steam in the Venus Atmosphere ; B.Sala, L.Kondraševa. Use of Solar Energy ; A.Balklavs. Century Long Astrophysics ; Z.Alksne, A.Alksnis. Plenty of Extrasolar Planets ; Z.Alksne, A.Alksnis. Unexpected Discovery of Spiral Structure in a Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy ; A.Balklavs. Hunting for the Black Holes ; J.Jaunbergs. Private Enterprise on Mir ; T.Czarnik. Surviving Explosive Decompression ; M.Gills. Space Research 40 Years Ago – Chronicle ; M.Krastiņš. Impressions about Rose Center for the Earth and Space ; K.Bērziņš. On Friendly Terms with Cosmology: Basic Principles and Models of the Universe (continuation) ; V.Flerov, A.Cēbers, D.Docenko, V.Kaščejev. Latvia 24th Open…

Does the Site of Blood Collection in Fish Affect Haematological and Blood Biochemical Results?

2021

The values of haematological and selected blood plasma biochemical parameters of juvenile common carp (Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758) were compared between blood samples taken from caudal vein and heart to evaluate the influence of blood sampling body site on the obtained results in two groups of fish of different blood sampling order: I – first by caudal and then by cardiac puncture, II – first by cardiac and then by caudal puncture. The obtained results revealed statistically significant (p<0.05) differences only in group I where red blood cell (RBC) count was higher in caudal vein blood, while haematocrit (Ht) value, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH), …

CREATIVE TOOLS FOR THE FORMATION OF PUBLIC SIGNS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE BALTIC STATES

2014

<p>In public space there is the information, that is always designed with a specific purpose. For example, signposts are placed to provide direction guidance and to highlight some of the most important objects. Public signs function as the visiting cards of some institution or enterprise, creating indirectly a definite image of these institutions or some ethnic or social groups, while graffiti is written to create and maintain a public image and to express emotions or attitudes towards some person, a group of people, events or processes. To achieve the expected objective the authors of signs often use the eye-catching texts that differ from linguistic and para-linguistic means, such a…

Costly punishment prevails in intergroup conflict.

2011

Understanding how societies resolve conflicts between individual and common interests remains one of the most fundamental issues across disciplines. The observation that humans readily incur costs to sanction uncooperative individuals without tangible individual benefits has attracted considerable attention as a proximate cause as to why cooperative behaviours might evolve. However, the proliferation of individually costly punishment has been difficult to explain. Several studies over the last decade employing experimental designs with isolated groups have found clear evidence that the costs of punishment often nullify the benefits of increased cooperation, rendering the strong human tenden…

Indagine preliminare sulla produzione e composizione di succo fermentato di Fico d'India (Opuntia ficus-indica)

2011

Fault detection for continuous-time switched systems under asynchronous switching

2013

In this chapter, the problem of FD for continuous-time switched systems under asynchronous switching is investigated. The designed FD filter is assumed to be asynchronous with the original systems. Attention is focused on designing a FD filter such that the estimation error between the residual and the fault is minimized in the sense of H ∞ norm. By employing piecewise Lyapunov function and ADT techniques, a sufficient condition for the existence of such a filter is exploited in terms of certain LMIs. Finally, an example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Energy-Efficient Context-Aware Resource Allocation for Edge-Computing-Empowered Industrial IoT

2020

Edge computing provides a promising paradigm to support the implementation of industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by offloading computational-intensive tasks from resource-limited machine-type devices (MTDs) to powerful edge servers. However, the performance gain of edge computing may be severely compromised due to limited spectrum resources, capacity-constrained batteries, and context unawareness. In this chapter, we consider the optimization of channel selection which is critical for efficient and reliable task delivery. We aim at maximizing the long-term throughput subject to long-term constraints of energy budget and service reliability. We propose a learning-based channel selection fr…

Energy-Efficient M2M Communications in for Industrial Automation

2020

M2M communication with autonomous data acquisition and exchange plays a key role in realizing the “control”-oriented tactile Internet (TI) applications such as industrial automation. In this chapter, we develop a two-stage access control and resource allocation algorithm. In the first stage, we introduce a contract-based incentive mechanism to motivate some delay-tolerant machine-type communication (MTC) devices to postpone their access demands in exchange for higher access opportunities. In the second stage, a long-term cross-layer online resource allocation approach is based on Lyapunov optimization, which jointly optimizes rate control, power allocation, and channel selection without pri…

Non-linear dynamics of alpha and theta rhythm: correlation dimensions and Lyapunov exponents from healthy subject's spontaneous EEG.

1997

The aim of the present paper was to analyze some non-linear dynamic properties of the resting EEG from healthy subjects under eyes closed conditions. For this purpose we digitally filtered the spontaneous EEG in the theta (3-8 Hz) and alpha frequency range (8-13 Hz) and considered these independent rhythms as signals from a deterministic system. Under certain conditions non-linear dynamic systems are able to generate deterministic chaos, which means that similar causes do not produce similar effects. This phenomenon is called sensitive dependence on initial conditions. From different lead positions (F3, F4, Cz, P3, P4, O1 and O2) we calculated the so-called correlation dimension D2, which i…

Nonlinear dynamical aspects of the human sleep EEG.

1994

This article deals with the application of methods from the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems to EEG signals. Theoretical background, mathematical concepts and algorithms for the calculation of "non-linear parameters" are reviewed and influences of the structure of reconstructed data sets on the calculations are pointed out. We present results for the estimation of the correlation dimension D2 and the principal Lyapunov-exponent lambda 1 for sleep EEG data respectively from 10 and 15 healthy subjects corresponding to different sleep stages. Essentially, we found a statistically significant decrease of both D2 and lambda 1 as sleep moves towards slow wave stages. The values for REM sleep…