* Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, Easter Bush, Roslin, EH25 9RG, UK, † Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Tennent Drive, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, North Palmerston, New Zealand, ‡ School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Leahurst, Neston, South Wirral CH64 7TE, UK, § T...

This paper describes a spatial systems architecture allowing clients to modify parameters and run their own bush re simulations via map data provided by a world wide web server. The simulations conform to the model of bush re behaviors as well as operational requirements. A wavelet model and re simulation over a distributed network are considered in this paper and we demonstrate how the archite...

A comparative assessment of 45 potato varieties, including 41 new varieties Russian selection, has been carried out. The purpose the research is a and selection best them according to set economically valuable traits (adaptability, productivity, quality indicators tubers other parameters) in specific soil climatic conditions. It was found that highest plant productivity experiment relatively fa...

looks set to come under increasing challenge this fall as a senior Republican, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said this summer he would support legislation to remove some of the administration's limitations on such research. The move is likely to result in a showdown between the president and the Senate. Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon, and a close ally of the president, had...

INTRODUCTION Nurses have practiced in Bristol Bay, Alaska, since 1896. Practice opportunities are defined by institutional structures and systems; and the geography, climate, and history of remote South-west 'bush' Alaska. The Native Alaskan culture as experienced through nurses' practice, community relations, and in several cases, marriages, shapes their lives as well. The purposes of this qua...

Design methodology and criteria to configure sprue bush for enhancing functionality is systematically compiled from plastic injection moulding machine perspective. Sprue conduit’s sensitivity to moulding objectives are quantitatively ghettoised as expansion ratio on the basis of ubiquitous empirical relationships. This generic, simple, inexpensive preventive criterion enables sprue bush conduit...

This paper investigates the problem of autonomous mobile robot navigation in bush environments. Such environments form part of the workspace of a number of groups, such as rural search-and-rescue and bush fire-fighting crews, who could greatly benefit from helper robots. In particular, given the existence of many tracks through bush areas, the ability to autonomously drive along such tracks wou...

Some of the most perplexing exit polls from the 2004 U.S. presidential election indicated overwhelming support for President Bush among voters who said they valued honesty, even though the Bush administration had been sharply criticized for deceiving the public, especially concerning the reasons for invading Iraq. A psychological theory recently developed to help explain memory loss in trauma s...

Reinforcement learners tend to repeat actions that led to satisfactory outcomes in the past, and avoid choices that resulted in unsatisfactory experiences. This behavior is one of the most widespread adaptation mechanisms in nature. In this paper we fully characterize the dynamics of one of the best known stochastic models of reinforcement learning [Bush, R., Mosteller, F., 1955. Stochastic Mod...

On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama [5] replaced Republican George W. Bush [6] as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush?s 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells [7]. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos ...