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Estudo hidrossedimentológico da bacia hidrográfica do Rio Negrinho - SC com o modelo SWAT
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia AmbientalO município de Rio Negrinho vem sofrendo com alteração da quantidade e qualidade da água devido a substituição da mata nativa por reflorestamento de pinus e acelerada urbanização. Visto isso, o presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar espacialmente os processos hidrossedimentológicos na bacia do Rio Negrinho - SC através do modelo SWAT. Foram realizado o monitoramento hidrossedimentológico, formação de banco de dados espaciais e tabulares, determinação das sub-bacias, calibração e validação do modelo, análises estatísticas, avaliação espacial da produção de água e de sedimentos e verificação da tolerância de perda de solos nas sub-bacias. Os dados simulados pelo modelo foram comparados com os dados observados de vazão em dois pontos de monitoramento da bacia e os dados de concentração de sedimento em um ponto da bacia. O desempenho do modelo foi analisado a partir do NASH (coeficiente de Nash-Sutcliffe), R2 (coeficiente de correlação), Erro médio (EM) e CMR (Coeficiente de massa residual). Os valores de NASH variaram de 0,48 a 0,61 para dados de vazão e 0,43 para dados de sedimento. Analisando o balanço hídrico da bacia o coeficiente de variação da precipitação, vazão e evapotranspiração mensal foi de 23%, 20% e 30% respectivamente. Já o armazenamento de água no solo variou muito pouco ao longo do ano, apresentando coeficiente de variação de 8,7%. Comparada a tolerância de perda de solos com os dados de produção de sedimento da bacia foi possível evidenciar que 11% da área da bacia apresentaram produção de sedimento maior que a tolerância.The Rio Negrinho city has been suffering from the quantitative and qualitative modification of water due to replacement of native forests by pine tree reforestation and accelerated urbanization. The objective of the present study was, therefore, to spatially analyze hydrosedimentological processes in the Negrinho river basin # SC through the SWAT model. Hydrosedimentological monitoring, construction of spatial databases and table, determination of sub-basins, the model calibration and validation, statistical analysis, spatial assessment of water and sediment yield and verification of soil loss tolerance in each sub-basin were carried out. The values simulated with the model were compared with the observed data of discharge at two monitoration points and of sediment concentration at one point in the basin. The model performance was evaluated with the coefficient of Nash-Sutcliffe (NASH), the correlation coefficient (R2), the average error (MS) and coefficient of residual mass (CRM). The NASH values were from 0.48 to 0.61 for the discharge data and 0.43 for the sediment data. Analyzing the water balance of the basin the coefficient of variation of the monthly precipitation, evapotranspiration and flow were 23%, 20% and 30%, respectively. The water storage in the soil varied little throughout the year, showing its coefficient of variation of 8.7%. Comparing to soil loss tolerance with the sediment production data, it was shown that 11% of the basin area would have more sediment production than the tolerated value
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No full textDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico
Dual-energy x-ray approach for object/energy-specific attenuation coefficient correction in single-photon emission computed tomography: effects of contrast agent
No full text10.1117/1.JMI.8.5.052106Journal of Medical Imaging85052106
Frequency-Domain Turbo Equalisation in Coded SC-FDMA Systems: EXIT Chart Analysis and Performance
No full textIn this paper, we investigate the achievable performance of channel coded single-carrier frequency division multiple-access (SC-FDMA) systems employing various detection schemes, when communicating over frequency-selective fading channels. Specifically, three types of minimum mean-square error (MMSE) based frequency-domain (FD) turbo equalisers are considered. The first one is the turbo FD linear equaliser (LE). The second one is a parallel interference cancellation (PIC)-assisted turbo FD decision-feedback equaliser (DFE). The final one is the proposed hybrid interference cancellation (HIC)-aided turbo FD-DFE, which combines successive interference cancellation (SIC) with iterative PIC and decoding. The benefit of interference cancellation (IC) is analysed with the EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts. The performance of the coded SC-FDMA systems employing the above-mentioned detection schemes is investigated with the aid of simulations. Our studies show that the IC techniques achieve an attractive performance at a moderate complexity
SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing book
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Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer
No full textPhotograph of Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palme
High-resolution clean-sc
No full textIn this paper a high-resolution extension of CLEAN-SC is proposed: HR-CLEAN-SC. Where CLEAN-SC uses peak sources in “dirty maps” to define so-called source components, HR-CLEAN-SC takes advantage of the fact that source components can likewise be derived from points at some distance from the peak, as long as these “source markers” are on the main lobe of the Point Spread Function (PSF). This is very useful when sources are closely spaced together, such that their PSFs interfere. Then, alternative markers can be sought in which the relative influence by PSFs of other source positions is minimised. For those markers the source components better agree with the actual sources, which allows for better estimation of their locations and strengths. This paper outlines the theory needed to understand this approach and discusses applications to 2D and 3D microphone array simulations with closely spaced sources
SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer talking to event attendees
No full textPhotograph of SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer talking to Rita Lewi
Fan-Beam Dual Energy X-ray Computed Tomography Codes (C language)
No full textThe three zip files are folders containing the Dual Energy X-ray CT codes written in C language for Unix on a Silicon Graphics. They were created sometime between 1992-1997 mainly by Dr Liew Soo Chin, assisted by Dr Kheng Lim Goh, who was Dr Liew's postgraduate student. These codes were used in the following studies (published):Correction of energy-dependent systematic errors in dual-energy X-ray CT using a basis material coefficients transformation method, KL Goh, SC Liew, BH Hasegawa, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 44 (6), 2419-2424, 1997Energy dependent systematic errors in dual-energy X-ray CT, KL Goh, SC Liew, BH Hasegawa, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 44 (2), 212 - 217, 1997Dual-energy x-ray approach for object/energy-specific attenuation coefficient correction in single-photon emission computed tomography: effects of contrast agent, KL Goh, SC Liew, Journal of Medical Imaging 8 (5), 052106-052106, 2021</p
Ca-modified Al–Mg–Sc alloy with high strength at elevated temperatures due to a hierarchical microstructure
No full textAl-Mg alloys are normally prone to lose part of their yield and tensile strength at high temperatures due to insufficient thermal stability of the microstructure. Here, we present a Ca-modified Al–Mg–Sc alloy demonstrating high strength at elevated temperatures. The microstructure contains Al4Ca phases distributed as a network along the grain boundary and Al3(Sc,Zr) nano-particles dispersed within the grains. The microstructure evolution and age-hardening analysis indicate that the combination of an Al4Ca network and Sc-rich nano-particles leads to excellent thermal stability even upon aging at 300 °C. The tensile strength of the alloy for temperatures up to 250 °C is significantly improved by an aging treatment and is comparable with the commercial heat-resistant aluminum alloys, i.e., A356 and A319. At a high temperature of 300 °C, the tensile strength is superior to the above-mentioned commercial alloys, even more so when expressed as the specific strength due to the low density of Ca-modified Al–Mg–Sc alloy. The excellent high-temperature strength results from a synergistic effect of solid solution strengthening, grain boundary strengthening and nanoparticle order strengthening.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Novel Aerospace Material
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