1 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK 2Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India 3 School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK 4Nanotechnology and Molecular Sciences, School of Chemistry, Physics an...

In the framework of DustBot European project, aimed at developing a new multi-robot system for urban hygiene management, we have developed a twowheeled robot: DustCart. DustCart aims at providing a solution to door-to-door garbage collection: the robot, called by a user, navigates autonomously to his/her house; collects the garbage from the user and discharges it in an apposite area. An additio...

Anesthetic management of anterior mediastinal masses (AMM) is challenging. We describe the successful anesthetic management of two patients with AMM in which dexmedetomidine was used at supra-sedative doses. Our first case was a 41-year-old man who presented with a 10 9 9 9 11 cm AMM, a pericardial effusion, compression of the right atrium, and superior vena cava syndrome. He had severe obstruc...

Adult crayfish (Cambarus diogenes diogenes) exposed to 8.41 +/- 0.17 microg silver/L (19.4% as Ag+) in moderately hard freshwater under flow-through conditions for 96 h exhibited ionoregulatory disturbance, elevated metabolic ammonia (T(amm)) production and substantial silver accumulation in the gills, hemolymph, and hepatopancreas. The ionoregulatory disturbance included both a generally reduc...

PURPOSE To present a method for estimating the local arterial input function (AIF) within a dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI scan, based on the alternating minimization with model (AMM) method. MATERIALS AND METHODS This method clusters a subset of data into representative curves, which are then input to the AMM algorithm to return a parameterized AIF and pharmacokinetic parameters. Computer sim...

We have proposed a generalized Langevin-type rate-code model subjected to multiplicative noise, in order to study stationary and dynamical properties of an ensemble containing a finite number N of neurons. Calculations using the Fokker-Planck equation have shown that, owing to the multiplicative noise, our rate model yields various kinds of stationary non-Gaussian distributions such as Gamma , ...

Following the structure meaning approach (c.f. [3,4]), I argued in [5] that the prosodic peak of Contrastive-marking creates a partition of the asserted proposition into B (background) and F (Focus). The morphological wa-marking then introduces the Con operator that takes the structured meaning as its argument and yields a conventional implicature. The Contrastive-marked sentence presupposes th...

Utafiti huu ulidhamiria kutathmini athari za kamusi ya Sheng’ – English Dictionary kwa Kiswahili sanifu. Kamusi (2003) iliteuliwa kama msingi wa uchunguzi sababu ndio kwanza kuwahi kuchapishwa. Licha hii kuchapishwa katika lugha Kiingereza ina leksimu ambazo yafaa kuchunguzwa namna zinavyoathiri Lengo la utafiti lilikuwa kueleza muundo kifonolojia maneno na jinsi yanavyotofautiana Nadharia ilik...

OBJECTIVE to validate the Nursing Intervention Classifications (NIC) for the diagnosis 'Risk of Impaired Skin Integrity' in patients at risk of pressure ulcers (PU). METHOD the sample comprised 16 expert nurses. The data was collected with an instrument about the interventions and their definitions were scored on a Likert scale by the experts. The data was analyzed statistically, using the ca...

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 88, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 93, E-Suppl. 1/Poult. Sci. Vol. 89, E-Suppl. 1 T90 Oxidation stability of milk rich in α-linolenic acid produced through duodenum infusion of high-linolenic perilla fatty acid into dairy cows. Q. S. Liu, J. Q. Wang*, D. P. Bu, E. Khas, G. Yang, L. Y. Zhou, P. Sun, and K. L. Liu, State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sc...