Three interrelated threads of inquiry -theoretical, empirical, and experiential- are pursued to answer one fundamental question: what is a positive intervention? Part 1 proposes a theoretical definition of the term ...

Although kiwifruit have been grown and exported since decades in Chile, early fruit softening is still an important problem. Some studies relate fruit quality problems to climate, orchard and fruit management and high ...

Systematic errors can have a significant effect on GPS observable. In medium and long baselines the major systematic error source are the ionosphere and troposphere refraction and the GPS satellites orbit errors. But, in ...

 We present some known properties of bk(n, p) the kth inverse moment of a positive binomial variate. Additional properties of this function and new bounds are derived. Keywords:  Probability, statistics, life contingencies, ...

We investigate how special relativity influences the transmission of classical information through quantum channels by evaluating the Holevo bound when the sender and the receiver are in (relativistic) relative motion. By ...

Indoor positioning systems calculate the position of a mobile device (MD) in an enclosed environment with relative precision. Most systems use WiFi infrastructure and several positioning techniques, where the most commonly ...