Boxnep - модульный подводный робот перспективных технологий

The article discusses the relevance of the underwater vehicles are able to solve a wide range of problems. The decision puts in a basis of the research is designing a modular underwater robot. It allows to make a mounting of various equipment and testing it in the water medium. The paper deals with the concept of the robot and its characteristics

Transfer of metals from soil to tissues of selected fee-living animals : a case study for Veliki Vrh

V raziskavi smo analizirali prenos kovin iz gozdnih in travniških tal v male sesalce (rumenogrla miš, gozdna in poljska voluharica), veliko sinico in lisico, ki živijo na območju Velikega Vrha. Hkrati smo ocenili tveganje za te organizme na podlagi primerjave določenih vsebnosti v rastlinskih in živalskih tkivih s kritičnimi ter dopustnimi vsebnostmi in izračunom kvocienta tveganja (HQ) na podlagi vnosa kovin s prehrano. Izjema je bila velika sinica, ki smo jo pri izračunu HQ nadomestili s kosom, ki se pogosto prehranjuje z deževniki. Ugotovili smo, da so gozdni in travniški ekosistemi na območju Velikega Vrha, ki je bil zlasti v preteklosti izpostavljen velikim izpustom iz Termoelektrarne Šoštanj, zmerno obremenjeni s Pb (gozdna tla, živalska tkiva), Hg (gozdna tla, živalska tkiva) in Cd (travniška tla, korenine trav, detelj in zeli). Vendar tveganja za prostoživeče živali (navadna lisica, rumenogrla miš, poljska in gozdna voluharica) in deževnike nismo ugotovili, saj so bile določene vsebnosti Hg, Pb in Cd nižje od kritičnih (mali sesalci, lisica) oziroma letalnih (smrtnih) vsebnosti (deževniki). Obstaja pa verjetnost za tveganje zaradi vnosa Hg v lisico prek gozdne voluharice in zaradi vnosa Pb v kosa prek deževnikov, vendar samo v primeru, če bi ta prehranska vira sestavljala vsaj polovico diete omenjenih organizmov.We studied transfer of metals from soil to tissues of selected free-living animals: small mammals (Myodes glareolus, Microtus arvalis, Apodemus flavicollis), Parus major and red fox (Vulpes vulpes), inhabiting Veliki Vrh, Slovenia. At the same time, we assessed the risk for these organisms on the basis of comparison with metal levels in plant and animal tissues to effect concentrations for liver, critical levels of metals, defined in Slovene legislation and Hazard Quotient calculation. The exception was Parus major. This passerine bird was replaced with Turdus merula which feeds on earthworms. Our results show that meadow and forest ecosystems at Veliki Vrh, which was exposed (especially in the past) to high levels of pollutants (including metals) from thermal power plant, are moderately polluted with Pb (forest soil, animal tissues), Hg (forest soil, animal tissues) and Cd (meadow soil, roots of grass and clovers). Nevertheless, the risk for selected free-living animals was in general insignificant, since the levels of Hg, Pb and Cd were below critical (small mammals, red fox) and lethal levels (earthworms). However, there is a probability of risk due to the intake of mercury in red fox through Myodes glareolus and of Pb in Turdus merula through earthworms, if these food sources would constitute at least half of the diet of these organisms

Brain-computer interfaces for assessment and communication in disorders of consciousness

Many patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) are misdiagnosed for a variety of reasons. These patients typically cannot communicate. Because such patients are not provided with the needed tools, one of their basic human needs remains unsatisfied, leaving them truly locked in to their bodies. This chapter first reviews current methods and problems of diagnoses and assistive technology for communication, supporting the view that advances in both respects are needed for patients with DOC. The authors also discuss possible solutions to these problems and introduce emerging developments based on EEG (Electroencephalography), fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), and fNIRS (Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) that have been validated with patients and healthy volunteers

Diffractive Dijet Production with a Leading Proton in ep Collisions at HERA

The cross section of the diffractive process e^+p -> e^+Xp is measured at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV, where the system X contains at least two jets and the leading final state proton p is detected in the H1 Very Forward Proton Spectrometer. The measurement is performed in photoproduction with photon virtualities Q^2 <2 GeV^2 and in deep-inelastic scattering with 4 GeV^2<Q^2<80 GeV^2. The results are compared to next-to-leading order QCD calculations based on diffractive parton distribution functions as extracted from measurements of inclusive cross sections in diffractive deep-inelastic scattering

Colombeau generalized functions on manifolds

Eduard NigschZsfassung in dt. SpracheWien, Techn. Univ. u. Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2006OeBB(VLID)161012

Exclusive ρ0\rho^0 Meson Photoproduction with a Leading Neutron at HERA

A first measurement is presented of exclusive photoproduction of $\rho^0$ mesons associated with leading neutrons at HERA. The data were taken with the H1 detector in the years $2006$ and $2007$ at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=319$ GeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of $1.16$ pb$^{-1}$. The $\rho^0$ mesons with transverse momenta $p_T0.35$, are detected in the Forward Neutron Calorimeter. The phase space of the measurement is defined by the photon virtuality $Q^2 < 2$ GeV$^2$, the total energy of the photon-proton system $20 < W_{\gamma p} < 100$ GeV and the polar angle of the leading neutron $\theta_n < 0.75$ mrad. The cross section of the reaction $\gamma p \to \rho^0 n \pi^+$ is measured as a function of several variables. The data are interpreted in terms of a double peripheral process, involving pion exchange at the proton vertex followed by elastic photoproduction of a $\rho^0$ meson on the virtual pion. In the framework of one-pion-exchange dominance the elastic cross section of photon-pion scattering, $\sigma^{\rm el}(\gamma\pi^+ \to \rho^0\pi^+)$, is extracted. The value of this cross section indicates significant absorptive corrections for the exclusive reaction $\gamma p\to\rho^0 n \pi^+$