The quality of WWW-based learning depends on several critical success factors. Especially, the course material on the WWW should not represent a one-to-one transfer of written lecture notes. Added values like interaction and dialogue components, training modules, etc. should be provided. This paper introduces an approach of multimedia-oriented WWW-based teachware packages taking these demands i...

The following notes contain a computer simulation concerning a basic nonWalrasian equilibrium system, following the Edmond Malinvaud “short side” approach, as far as the price adjustment is concerned, and the sequential Hicksian “weeks” structure with regard of the temporal characterization. Two strongly heterogeneous classes of agents will be taken into consideration: the “rich” and the “poor”...

Three new species of the family Phthiracaridae, Austrophthiracarus longisetosus sp. nov., Phthiracarus allocotos sp. nov., Protophthiracarus amboroensis sp. nov. from Bolivia are described and figured. A comparison of morphological similarities with the most closely related species is presented. Additional descriptions and taxonomical notes for three ptyctimous species: Acrotritia peruensis (Ha...

These notes, originally written in the 1980’s, were intended as the beginning of a book on 3 manifolds, but unfortunately that project has not progressed very far since then. A few small revisions have beenmade in 1999 and 2000, butmuchmore remains to be done, both in improving the existing sections and in adding more topics. The next topic to be added will probably be Haken manifolds in §3.2. ...

The objective of this research was to design a 2.4 GHz class AB Power Amplifier (PA), with 0.18um Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CMOS technology by using Cadence software, for health care applications. The ultimate goal for such application is to minimize the trade-offs between performance and cost, and between performance and low power consumption design. This pap...

Carpal tunnel syndrome is the first on the list of peripheral nerve lesions in the upper limb. Most of the anatomical facts about this syndrome are widely known. The Guyoun's canal is the second reason for compression syndrome in the wrist. Anatomy of this is region still remains controversial. This is why authors tried to compile some latest findings accompanied by their own observation, and a...

• Decomposition by central characters • Square-integrable cuspforms • Smoothness of cuspforms • Eigen-cuspforms and automorphic representation • Dirichlet series versus zeta and L-functions • L-functions defined via local data • Factoring unitary representations of adele groups • Spherical representations and Satake parameters • Local data, L-groups, higher L-functions References and historical...

A fully automatic test of facility with spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) was developed and evaluated. The paper notes the diglossic situation of MSA (where colloquial and formal languages are quite distinct), and presents the structure and scoring of the test. Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the test is described, with added analyses that compare not just learners and native sp...

A singing transcription system which transcribes human singing voice to musical notes is described in this paper. The fact that human singing rarely follows standard musical scale makes it a challenge to implement such a system. This system utilizes some new methods to deal with the issue of imprecise musical scale of input voice of a human singer, such as spectral standard deviation used for n...

These notes contain five lectures given by the author at the CNA Summer School held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from May 30 to June 7, 2013. The aim of the course was to give a self contained introduction to the classical isoperimetric inequality and to various stability results proved in recent years for this inequality and other related geometric and analytic inequalities. In ...