The Eurozone crisis exposed the incompleteness of Economic and Monetary Union’s governance framework thereby prompting promotion a multitude reform packages proposals. This simultaneously induced conflict among EU governments on both design content such reforms. In case financial transaction tax (FTT) proposal, which failed to garner consensus member governments, it illustrates Ireland’s disapp...

This paper first examines the history of New England for an effect of urbanization on forests, providing new measures of change over time in spatial concentrations of population and output. Forest area fell during early development then rebounded even as population and output rose. Historical census data support that: (1) spatial concentration of population can increase forest; (2) this can occ...

Francisella tularensis causes the disease tularemia. Human pulmonary exposure to the most virulent form, F. tularensis subsp. tularensis (Ftt), leads to high morbidity and mortality, resulting in this bacterium being classified as a potential biothreat agent. However, a closely-related species, F. novicida, is avirulent in healthy humans. No tularemia vaccine is currently approved for human use...

The requirement for flexible operation is becoming increasingly important in modern industrial systems. This requirement has to be supported at all system levels, including the field level in process industry, as well as the cell and machine control levels in manufacturing industry, where fieldbus-based communication systems are commonly found. Furthermore, typical applications at these levels ...

Introduction Ultrasound (USS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been used as screening tools for rotator cuff tears with MRI reported superior. When comparing USS supraspinatus tears, less data is available. Aim Compare the diagnostic sensitivity of in pre-operative diagnosis partial thickness (PTT) full (FTT) tendons compared to gold-standard shoulder arthroscopy assess if differences ...

In order to use the FTT-CAN protocol (Flexible Time-Triggered communication over Controller Area Network) in safety-critical applications, the impact of network errors and node failures must be thoroughly determined and minimized. This paper presents and discusses fault-tolerance techniques to limit that impact. The particular configuration of the communication system can be more or less comple...

The initial data for black hole collisions is constructed using a conformal-imaging approach and a new adaptive mesh refinement technique, a fully threaded tree (FTT). We developed a secondorder accurate approach to the solution of the constraint equations on a non-uniformly refined high resolution Cartesian mesh including second-order accurate treatment of boundary conditions at the black hole...

This paper presents a novel FTT (Feature Triangle Tracking) algorithm to track the eyes, mouth and pose of a fatigue driver. The proposed method uses the motion information to localize the face region, and the face region is processed in YCrCb color space to determine the locations of the eyes and mouth. According to geometrical relationships of facial components and the varied pose of the driv...