The intrinsic charging status at the dielectric-electrolyte interface (DEI) plays a critical role for electrofluidic gating in microfluidics and nanofluidics, which offers opportunities for integration of wet ionics with dry electronics. A convenient approach to quantitatively probe the surface charges at the DEI for material pre-selection purpose has been lacking so far. We report here a low-c...

We present here a methodology for determining the benefits that can accrue from efforts to enhance data quality relative to the cost of those efforts. The methodology proposes a Data Enhancement Index (DEI) which is a vector sum of measurements of aggregate properties of a legacy data collection along three axes. The first axis measures the current state of the business process that the data co...

This article argues that the Italian plural indefinite article dei and its French counterpart is a partitive structure without an overt numeral. Unlike a similar proposal in (Chierchia 1998a), the present account crucially holds that the definite DP embedded in these ‘defective partitives’ is a kind-denoting DP. This assumption derives the lack of existence presupposition, the absence of cardin...

The ratio Φ → K + K − /K 0 ¯ K 0 is discussed and its present experimental value is compared with theoretical expectations. A difference larger than two standard deviations is observed. We critically examine a number of mechanisms that could account for this discrepancy, which remains unexplained. Measurements at DAΦNE at the level of the per mille accuracy can clarify whether there exist any a...

The monophyletic group of species around Dematochroma pilosa Jolivet, Verma & Mille is identified in this work by combining information from mitochondrial DNA data and morphological features. A series defining traits diagnosing assemblage its closest phylogenetic relatives, including the genera Thasycles Chapuis Atrichatus Sharp, used to argue for taxonomic separation propose a new genus, named...

Gap genes encode transcription factors involved in the patterning of the head-tail axis of insect embryos. In this issue of Cell, Savard et al. (2006) identify a beetle gap gene, mille-pattes, that encodes an unusual polycistronic transcript predicted to produce four conserved peptides. These results have interesting implications for the control of embryonic patterning in insects.

Bernd Bohnet , Simon Mille , Benoı̂t Favre , Leo Wanner Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) Universität Stuttgart, {first-name.last-name}@ims.uni-stuttgart.de Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions Universitat Pompeu Fabra, {first-name.last-name}@upf.edu Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Universite du Maine {first-name.last-name}@lium.univ-lemans.fr Instituci...

TOBIAS VREDE*, ASHLEY BALLANTYNE, CECILIA MILLE-LINDBLOM*, GRETE ALGESTEN*, CRISTIAN GUDASZ , SANDRA LINDAHL* AND ANNA KRISTINA BRUNBERG* *Department of Ecology and Evolution ⁄Limnology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babes-Bolyai...

The intrinsic charging status at the dielectric–electrolyte interface (DEI) plays a critical role for electrofluidic gating in microfluidics and nanofluidics, which offers opportunities for integration of wet ionics with dry electronics. A convenient approach to quantitatively probe the surface charges at the DEI for material preselection purpose has been lacking so far. We report here a low-co...

Secondo J. M. Juran, uno dei fondatori delle management and quality theories, i dati sono detti di alta qualità se possono essere utilizzati in modo appropriato per operations, decision making and planning. Il termine Quality of Data (QoD) quindi, si riferisce ad un aspetto multi-dimensionale che esprime una caratteristica intrinseca dei dati offerti, come opposto all’omologo Quality of Service...