1 University of Victoria, [email protected] 2 Freie Software Engineering Trainerin und Forscherin, [email protected] 3 Fahney Anforderungsingenieurwesen GmbH, [email protected] 4 STRABAG Property and Facility Services GmbH, [email protected] 5 Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH, [email protected] 6 [email protected], 7 HOOD GmbH, [email protected] 8 Hochschule für Ang...

Warren Weaver is the person generally credited with exciting interest in the possibilities of mechanical translation (MT) in the United States. (Earlier proposals came from a Russian, P. P. Smirnoff-Troyanski, and independently from a Frenchman, Artsouni.) His letter on the subject to some 200 of his colleagues in 1949 may be regarded as the beginning of this endeavor. The international confere...

A mobile device in a MANET must be assigned a free IP address before it may participate in unicast communication. This is a fundamental and difficult problem in the practical use of any MANET. Several solutions have been proposed. However, these approaches have different drawbacks. A new IP address allocation algorithm, namely prophet allocation, is proposed in the paper. The proposed scheme ma...

In order to avoid the inherent aerodynamic difficulties of the conventional fume hood, an innovative design--the 'air curtain-isolated fume hood' is developed. The new hood applies a specially designed air curtain (which is generated by a narrow planar jet and a suction slot flow at low velocities) across the sash plane. The hood constructed for the study is full size and transparent for flow v...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Hood cap-assisted chromocolonoscopy using indigocarmine is expected to improve the detection rate of colorectal polyps, especially adenomatous polyps. Therefore, aim of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of hood cap-assisted chromocolonoscopy in routine colonoscopic examinations. METHODS From January, 2013 through March, 2013, a total of 86 patients were enrolled...

Cooking stoves, both gas and electric, are one of the strongest and most common sources of ultrafine particles (UFP) in homes. UFP have been shown to be associated with adverse health effects such as DNA damage and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. This study investigates the effectiveness of kitchen exhaust hoods in reducing indoor levels of UFP emitted from a gas stove and oven. Measur...

In this paper we consider the problem of routing in intermittently connected networks. In such networks there is no guarantee that a fully connected path between source and destination exists at any time, rendering traditional routing protocols unable to deliver messages between hosts. There do however exist a number of scenarios where connectivity is intermittent, but where the possibility of ...

Delay and/or Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) is a novel communication prototype that can span across multiple networks and deal with unpredicted conditions in the Internet model.Delay-tolerant networks (DTNs) are partitioned wireless ad hoc networks with intermittent connectivity. Additional terminology in this family of dynamic networks includes disruption-tolerant networks, intermittentl...