Improved survival of very pre-term infants is a result of advances in obstetric and neonatal medicine. To provide relevant data for a Northern Ireland population group, we evaluated mortality and morbidity of extremely low birthweight (ELBW; < 1000 g) infants from a tertiary referral neonatal unit. Seventy-seven ELBW infants were admitted on the first day of life during the period April 1990 to...

the family of high-speed Ethernet technologies. It extends the operating speed of the world's most deployed LAN to 1 billion bits per second while maintaining compatibility with the installed base of 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps Ethernet equipment. T he installed base for Ethernet ranges from PCs and servers to printers , test equipment, telephone switches, cable TV set-top boxes, process control syste...

Social-Networking Websites (SNWs) are rapidly becoming a central media for social exchange. A basic question is how well are people able to get to know each other through these websites? In this study, we explore characteristics of the profile photographs and their association with impression agreement. Using a specially designed social networking website (http://www.YouJustGetMe.com), we exami...

In this paper we demonstrate an accurate, efficient, and parallelizable optimization algorithm for the layout of hundreds, then 1000, turbines. It is modular and therefore allows different wake effect models to be incorporated. Its computational cost is a relation which depends upon how many candidate layouts it investigates and the complexity of its wake loss calculation. We demonstrate how we...

Control biochemical and hematologic data were gathered for 1017 healthy submariners who ranged in age from 19.5 to 43.5 years. Means, standard deviation, and frequency distribution are presented for 24 whole blood and serum variables and, where appropriate, for 11 urinary variables. After statistical separation of the effects of aging and length of submarine service, it has been determined that...

The Intel® CoreTM i7 processor code named Nehalem provides a feature named Turbo Boost which opportunistically varies the frequencies of the processor’s cores. The frequency of a core is determined by core temperature, the number of active cores, the estimated power consumption, the estimated current consumption, and operating system frequency scaling requests. For a chip multi-processor(CMP) t...