Minor modifications to a Coleman MAS-50A Mercury Analyser System allowed the determination of mercury by flow injection analysis. Using sample volumes of 600 mul it was possible to analyse up to 120 samples per hour, with a detection limit of 0.2 mug. l(-1) (120 pg) of mercury. The authors also report on a simple digestion procedure which replaces the time- and reagent-consuming EPA procedure, ...

Engineering complex robot control systems typically suffers from a major break in development process between different platforms – powerful computers running an operating systems and bare metal embedded computing nodes. This work presents an approach to close this gap by running an existing state-of-the-art software framework with only minor modifications on all platforms. In this context, we ...

Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for a prosperous 1996 from: Cellular Networking Perspectives! IS-41 Revision C Approved for Publication! evision C of the TIA IS-41 standard for inter-system operations to support handoff, automatic roaming, validation and authentication has been approved for TIA publication. With some minor layout modifications, the document will also be submitted for ballot ...

We uncover 2-group symmetries in 6d superconformal field theories. These arise when the discrete 1-form symmetry and continuous flavor group of a theory mix with each other. classify all theories such symmetries. The approach taken is applicable more generally, minor modifications to include dimension specific operators (such as instantons 5d monopoles 3d), we provide discussion dimension-indep...

A commercial rule base was used to identify drug orders exceeding standard dosage limits at a university hospital. Initially, there were substantial numbers of clinically insignificant alerts. A method for altering the commercial rule base will be implemented to increase rule specificity for problematic drugs. With minor modifications, commercial rule bases can be used to rapidly create a safet...

Many of the difficulties encountered in the original Fiske and SubbaRow method for estimating serum phospholid were corrected through the use of vanadium pentoxide, a catalyst used in sample digestion, and through other minor modifications. Results obtained by the modified method agree well with those obtained by three other established phospholipid procedures. The greatly improved speed, simpl...

background :highserum level of cancer antigen 15.3 (ca15.3) has been reported in some malignant and nonmalignant conditions including thalassemia major which could have been resulted from ineffective erythropoiesis. we aimed to evaluate the serum level of ca15.3 in carriers of beta-thalassemia by comparing them with cancer patients and healthy individuals.   methods : this cross-sectional study...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a subset of targets that can be advanced through standard urban management activities. In particular, routine vegetation comprises number activities with potential impact on Goal #4 (quality education), #11 (sustainable cities and communities), #13 (protect the planet), #15 (life land), and, perhaps less obviously, but equally important, #8 (good job...

We present a unified view of the two-party and multi-party computation protocols based on oblivious transfer first outlined in Nielsen et al. (CRYPTO 2012) Larraia 2014). number modifications improvements to these earlier presentations, as well full proofs entire protocol. Improvements include pre-processing online MAC methodology, mechanisms pass between different variants fixing minor bug pro...

We apply nnU-Net to the segmentation task of BraTS 2020 challenge. The unmodified baseline configuration already achieves a respectable result. By incorporating BraTS-specific modifications regarding postprocessing, region-based training, more aggressive data augmentation as well several minor pipeline we are able improve its performance substantially. furthermore re-implement ranking scheme de...