Geomorphology of the Kaikoura area

The major physiographic units in the Kaikoura area are the Peninsula Block, Beach Ridges and Raised Beaches, Hard Rock Areas and the Alluvial Fans. Erosion of the Seaward Kaikoura Mountains and the transfer of the debris to the sea by fan streams have contributed to coastline pro gradation so that a former offshore island, now called the Kaikoura Peninsula, has been joined to the mainland. On the piedmont alluvial plain between the mountains and the sea Otiran Glacial Stage and Holocene fan deposits have covered up older fan surfaces. Stillstands during the tectonic uplift of the Peninsula Block when marine processes cut shore platforms and also higher stands of interglacial sea levels in the Late Pleistocene have contributed to the development of erosion surfaces. Along the coast beach ridges and raised beaches have developed during post-glacial times

Code Prediction by Feeding Trees to Transformers

We advance the state-of-the-art in the accuracy of code prediction (next token prediction) used in autocomplete systems. First, we report that using the recently proposed Transformer architecture even out-of-the-box outperforms previous neural and non-neural systems for code prediction. We then show that by making the Transformer architecture aware of the syntactic structure of code, we further increase the margin by which a Transformer-based system outperforms previous systems. With this, it outperforms the accuracy of an RNN-based system (similar to Hellendoorn et al. 2018) by 18.3\%, the Deep3 system (Raychev et al 2016) by 14.1\%, and an adaptation of Code2Seq (Alon et al., 2018) for code prediction by 14.4\%. We present in the paper several ways of communicating the code structure to the Transformer, which is fundamentally built for processing sequence data. We provide a comprehensive experimental evaluation of our proposal, along with alternative design choices, on a standard Python dataset, as well as on a Facebook internal Python corpus. Our code and data preparation pipeline will be available in open source

Acidosis potentiates endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation and gap junction communication in the superior mesenteric artery.

Extracellular pH is an important physiological determinant of vascular tone that is normally maintained within 7.35-7.45. Any change outside this range leads to severe pathological repercussions. We investigated the unknown effects of extracellular acidosis on relaxation in the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) of goat. SMA rings were employed to maintain isometric contractions at extracellular pH (p

Pedestrian Flow Characteristics for Different Pedestrian Facilities and Situations

The pedestrian walking data collected at nineteen locations in five cities of India are analyzed in this paper. Pedestrian facilities are classified based on their width as sidewalk, wide-sidewalk and precincts. The analysis indicates that the pedestrian free flow speed is high on sidewalks (1.576 m/s) and low on precincts (1.340 m/s). The increase in width of the facility resulted in increased space available to a pedestrian, but reduced maximum flow rate and optimum density. It is found that the relationship between speed and density follows Underwood (exponential) model on sidewalk of varying widths and Greenshield’s (linear) model on a non-exclusive facility. Bi-directional flow on a facility affects the free flow speed and space available to the pedestrian adversely at high density. Squeezing effect at the centre and follow the predecessor near sides is observed under heavy bidirectional flow. The presence of a bottleneck reduces the free flow speed and maximum flow substantially. Pedestrians moved in layers at high density. Maximum flow rate is observed to be higher on the carriageway (2.067 ped/s) as compared to an exclusive pedestrian facility (1.493 ped/s)

Differential rotation measurement of soft X-Ray corona

The aim of this paper is to study the latitudinal variation in the solar rotation in soft X-ray corona. The time series bins are formed on different latitude regions of the solar full disk (SFD) images that extend from 80 degree South to 80 degree North. These SFD images are obtained with the soft X-ray telescope (SXT) on board the Yohkoh solar observatory. The autocorrelation analyses are performed with the time series that track the SXR flux modulations in the solar corona. Then for each year, extending from 1992 to 2001, we obtain the coronal sidereal rotation rate as a function of the latitude. The present analysis from SXR radiation reveals that; (i) the equatorial rotation rate of the corona is comparable to the rotation rate of the photosphere and the chromosphere, (ii) the differential profile with respect to the latitude varies throughout the period of the study; it is more in the year 1999 and least in 1994 and (iii) the equatorial rotation period varies systematically with sunspot numbers and indicates its dependence on the phases of the solar activity cycle.Comment: 9 Pages, 4 Figures, Accepted for Publication in MNRA

The steady state stability of synchronous machine as affected by direct and quadrature axis excitation regulators

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