Roughness

The game of basketball would not be around today if it wasn’t for one man, his name was James Naismith. James was born on November 6, 1861 in Ontario, Canada. He was born to the parents of John and Margaret Naismith. When James was only nine years old both of his parents had died, leaving James an orphan. This was a very rough time in James’ life. After becoming an orphan, he was raised by his very strict grandmother for a little bit, and then his bachelor uncle. While growing up James enjoyed…

dirt and gravel path. Shards of rock flew through the air, brushing against their dust and grime covered coats. The rumbles and pangs of machines roared through the air, drowning their ears in noise. But the men had already acclimated towards the roughness of their environment, the cuts and pains blending in as the men…

Stochastic Mortality Models Fitting mortality rates and hence longevity risk quantification dynamically continues to be a challenge especially in the developing countries. Earlier development relied on one-factor model by Lee and Carter (1992). Lee and Carter model is widely applied since it has been found to provide fairly accurate estimations and population projections for both the academicians and practitioners. Later on, Renshaw and Haberman and Halzoupoiz(1996) and Renshaw and Heberma…

emphasize as particularly suitable for large-scaled monitoring. But the classification of SAR images is more difficult as of multi-spectral images. Because of the microwave’s interaction with the object parameters on the earth surface, like roughness or the complex dielectric constant (CDC), different types of land cover respond very similar. So separability is not possible without additional information. For the investigated multi-channel SAR scenes a typical example for this problem…

Galileo Galilei Have you ever wondered what Galileo Galilei did in his life?. Galileo Galilei made astonishing and world changing inventions and improvements to other inventions. His inventions and improvements to other inventions were made in the topics of math, astronomy, and cosmology. Galileo Galilei made significant change in the history of science. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. After he was born he moved and lived in a town close to Florence, Italy.…

Eric Anderson’s theory of inclusive masculinity has been marked as a new viewpoint to theorizing contemporary masculinities today. Anderson has been renowned for exceptional sociological recognition in this field as he critically initiated the ‘next generation’ of masculinity contemporary scholarship (O’Neill,). Anderson’s theoretical development of inclusive masculinity is recognised by many as an empirical replacement for Connell’s hegemonic masculinity. The influence of Anderson and his…

Three main manufacturing processes exist; formative, subtractive and additive processes. These manufacturing processes can be divided by the type of action or actions required to produce the final part. Formative processes form the material into the desired shape, either by using dies or moulds. Examples of formative processes are stamping, forging, drawing, rolling or extruding. Subtractive processes on the other hand remove layers of material to form the final part. Turning, milling, grinding,…

Social Behavior Among Monkeys May Be More Nature Than Nurture ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2003) — An unusual experiment with monkeys who were switched between mothers shortly after birth has demonstrated the importance of nature over nurture in behavior. Rearing Young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher has shown for…