Many new Al-based amorphous alloys were found within the numerous alloy systems studied in this project, and these were found specifically in compositional regions predicted by our amorphous alloy structural model. However, the critical casting dimensions of these alloys were still considered as sub-millimetre, and hence could not producible as ‘bulk’ specimens of substantial size for practical...

Website fingerprinting allows a local, passive observer monitoring a web-browsing client’s encrypted channel to determine her web activity. Previous attacks have shown that website fingerprinting could be a threat to anonymity networks such as Tor under laboratory conditions. However, there are significant differences between laboratory conditions and realistic conditions. First, in laboratory ...

Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is important in tissue repair and wound healing and its administration can abrogate chemical- and radiation-induced tissue damage in rodents. We investigated KGF as a therapeutic agent for the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-induced tissue damage, morbidity, and mortality in an established murine allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) model....

We study accuracy of fractional time-stepping (FTS) methods such as the alternating direction implicit method for the computation of heat ows and the velocity-pressure splitting methods for Navier-Stokes ows. The FTS techniques can be viewed as a perturbation of conventional temporal-spatial discretization schemes; they in theory invoke a perturbation error that is on the same order as the disc...

INTRODUCTION While smoking is a major modifiable risk factor for secondary prevention of myocardial infarction (MI), active smoking is common among patients hospitalized with acute MI. Recent studies suggest that nicotinic receptor variants, and specifically the high-risk CHRNA5 rs16969968 A allele, are associated with cessation failure among noncardiac patients. This study investigates the ass...

Steve Hofmann1 John L. Lewis1;2 Department of Mathemati s Department of Mathemati s University of Missouri University of Kentu ky Columbia MO 65211-0001 Lexington, KY 40506-0027 email: hofmann math.missouri.edu john ms.uky.edu Kaj Nystr om2 Current Address: Department of Mathemati s Foreningssparbanken Ume a University Group Finan ial Risk Control 90187 Ume a, Sweden S-10534 Sto kholm, Sweden...

This paper deals with Exploratory Procedures for Computer Vision. The assumptions are that we have a mobile camera system with controllable focus, close/open aperture, and ability of recording its position, orientation and movement. Furthermore we assume an unknown and unstructured environment. For our analysis we consider two types of illumination sources: the point source and the extended sky...

In the present paper, corpus linguistics becomes a valuable methodological tool for cross-linguistic research on speech and prosody. The inherent complexity of speech analysis and prosodic annotation increases when the object of study is a longitudinal computerized corpus of native and nonnative varieties of English. The lack of generally accepted prosodic transcription systems adds further dif...

Lactobacillus plantarum is used for fermentation of fish products, meat and milk. However, the utilization of these bacteria in egg processing has not been done. This study was designed to evaluate the potential of fermented egg albumen as a functional food that is rich in angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibitors activity (ACE-inhibitor activity) and is antihypertensive. A completely randomiz...

We discuss the structure of the recursively enumerable sets under three reducibilities: Turing, truth-table and weak truth-table. Weak truth-table reducibility requires that the questions asked of the oracle be effectively bounded. Truth-table reducibility also demands such a bound on the the length of the computations. We survey what is known about the algebraic structure and the complexity of...