The issue of oil spill emergency response in north-west Russia has become increasingly important following a substantial increase in maritime transport and major offshore developments in Russian waters. This study is an initial effort to outline the public and private agencies and organizations involved in handling oil spills in the Murmansk region and the structure of the oil spill emergency response ...

New quantitative and semiautomated methods for analyzing oil slick evolution using a time series of L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with short repeat time are developed and explored. In this study, two methods that are complementary in terms of identifying temporal changes within an oil slick are presented. The two methods reflect two ways of evaluating the oil slicks. The first method ...

Clouds commonly employ virtual machine technology to leverage and efficiently utilize computational resources in data centers. The workloads encapsulated by virtual machines contend for the resources of their hosting machines, and interference from resource sharing can cause unpredictable performance. Despite the use of virtual machine technology, the role of the operating system as an arbiter of ...

We present a complete description of a class of linearizable planar geodesic webs which contain a parallelizable 3-subweb.

With the Arctic sea ice continuously decreasing in both extent and thickness, fast and robust production of reliable ice charts becomes more important to ensure the safety of Arctic operations. This thesis focuses on the development of automated algorithms for the mapping of sea ice from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It presents a thorough background on the topics of sea ice observations ...

<p>Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) is a technique to create high density, low temperature plasmas that do not depend on a cathode, like arc discharges and are therefore easier to maintain and have a longer lifespan. The use of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) for electron heating for Magnetic Nozzle (MN) thrusters have recently received increased interest, as they have been shown to provide ...

We construct high-order derivative operators for smooth functions represented via discontinuous multiwavelet bases. The need for such operators arises in order to avoid artifacts when computing functionals involving high-order derivatives of solutions of integral equations. Previously high-order derivatives had to be formed by repeated application of a first-derivative operator that, while uniquely ...

This thesis is concerned with the definition of elementary particles as irreducible projective unitary representations of the Poincaré group. During the contents of this work, we will introduce the relevant prerequisites and results. Concerning differential geometry, we will discuss smooth manifolds, Lie groups and Lie algebras. About quantum mechanics, we will introduce Hilbert spaces and the basic ...

Traditional parametric and nonparametric classifiers used for statistical pattern recognition have their own strengths and limitations. While parametric methods assume some specific parametric models for density functions or posterior probabilities of competing classes, nonparametric methods are free from such assumptions. So, when these model assumptions are correct, parametric methods outperform ...

We discuss rank 2 sub-Riemannian structures on low-dimensional manifolds and prove that some of these structures in dimensions 6, 7 and 8 have a maximal amount of symmetry but no integrals polynomial in momenta of low degrees, except for those coming from the Killing vector fields and the Hamiltonian, thus indicating nonintegrability of the corresponding geodesic flows.