Polarimetric radar measurements are sensitive to the size, shape and orientation of raindrops and provide information about drop size distribution (DSD), canting angle distribution and rain rate. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a method for retrieving DSD parameters for calculating rain rate and the characteristic particle size. The DSD is assumed to be a Gamma distribution and the go...

It is known that distributed software development is risker and more challenging than collocated software development. Previous research has suggested that there are several factors that cause delay in distributed development including cultural differences, lacking common ground, communication and coordination overhead [4]. We use data collection forms and interviews to gather data from a cours...

Here we present a male newborn with multiple congenital anomalies who also has an extremely rare form of testicular disorder of sex development (DSD). His karyotype was 45X, without any mosaicism. SRY gene was positive by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and rearranged on distal part of the 7th chromosome by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis. SRY, normally located on the Y chro...

One of the most fundamental influences on our lives is our sex. Whether we are born as male or female has an enormous impact on our behaviour, reproductive options and disease susceptibility. Consequently, if the sex of a baby is not clear it can create many intractable issues, particularly in terms of medical management. Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs) are congenital conditions in which de...

In this short paper, we briefly introduce the DIANE Service Description (DSD) and show how it can be used to support the problems stated in the exemplary Moon scenario of the SWS-Challenge-2006. 1 What is DSD? The goal of service-oriented computing is the ability to dynamically discover and invoke services at run-time, thus forming networks of loosely-coupled participants. The most important pr...

Disorder of sex development (DSD) presents a unique challenge, both diagnostically and in terms of acute and longer-term management. These are relatively rare conditions usually requiring a multidisciplinary approach from the outset and the involvement of a tertiary centre for assessment and management recommendations. This article describes the structure of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) at ...

We discuss analytic continuation from d dimensional Lorentzian de Sitter (dSd) to d-dimensional Lorentzian anti-de Sitter (AdSd) spacetime. We show that AdSd, with opposite signature of the metric, can be obtained as analytic continuation of a portion of dSd. This implies that the dynamics of (positive square-mass) scalar particles in AdSd can be obtained from the dynamics of tachyons in dSd. W...