ASDEX Upgrade is preparing a hardware modification of its upper divertor in order to study alternative divertor configurations, like the X-divertor (XD) and the snowflake divertor (SF), that are discussed as a possible solution for the power exhaust problem.Experiments characterizing the current upper divertor in single-null (SN) configuration befo
Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae) is a sprawling shrub native to the Americas, and a destructive invader of much of the humid tropics and subtropics of the Old World.Opportunistic native-range exploration in 1995 identified a stem-boring weevil, Lixus aemulus, as a promising biological control candidate agent.Host-specificity testing wa
Xylitol is a promising phase change material for thermal energy storage at low and medium temperatures, but its supercooling and low crystallization rate can hinder its performance in Nebulisers actual systems.This problem can be overcome with the application of external stimuli that promotes the nucleation and subsequent crystallization of the sup
This essay considers the historical-geographical Black Belt, beginning as a rich, dark-soil, cotton-growing region NUTRI MULTI of Alabama occupied by slaveholders in the 1820s and 30s, and becoming, over time, a more generalized designation for a region or place with a majority black population.By the late twentieth century, the Alabama Black Belt
Image matching is one of the most important tasks in Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV) photogrammetry applications.The number and distribution of extracted keypoints play an essential role in the reliability and accuracy of image matching and orientation results.Conventional detectors generally produce too many redundant keypoints.In this paper, we stu