C is developing a defense innovation system (DIS) as part of a broader effort to construct a national innovation system (NIS) that incorporates a system-of-systems approach. Modeled on China’s commercial-sector economic development zones and investment strategies, the DIS is focused on enhancing integration and interaction among key defense industry actors, institutions, industry sectors, and r...

The Linnaean taxon Titanoptera is a distinctive Triassic insect order the origin of which is uncertain. Forewing venation patterns of the Permian Linnaean subfamily Tcholmanvissiinae (Orthoptera) and of the Titanoptera are re-investigated. The comparative analysis supports the view that the morphology of the latter group is derived from that of the former. As a consequence, the order Titanopter...

-Most algor i thms in 3D computer vision rely on the pinhole camera model because of its simplicity, whereas virtually all imaging devices int roduce certain amoun t of nonlinear distort ion, where the radial dis tor t ion is the most severe part. Common approach to radial dis tor t ion is by the means of polynomial approximat ion, which introduces distortion-specific pa ramete rs into the came...

This research characterizes the spontaneous spoken dis uencies typical of human-computer interaction, and presents a predictive model accounting for their occurrence. Data were collected during three empirical studies in which people spoke or wrote to a highly interactive simulated system as they completed service transactions. The studies involved within-subject factorial designs in which the ...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Dyskinesia Impairment Scale (DIS). The DIS consists of two subscales: dystonia and choreoathetosis. It measures both phenomena in dyskinetic cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD Twenty-five participants with dyskinetic CP (17 males; eight females; age range 5–22y; mean age 13y 6mo; SD 5y 4mo), recruited from special schools f...

Insomnia is one of the most common complaints at worksites, as well as in the general population. This study aims to assess the effect of insomnia on the development of hypertension in Japanese male workers. Using the annual health examination database of a Japanese telecommunication company, eligible middle-aged male participants in the 1994 health examination were followed up until 1998 or th...

Nonsmooth mechanical systems, which are mechanical systems involving dry friction and rigid unilateral contact, are usually described as differential inclusions (DIs), that is, differential equations involving discontinuities. Those DIs may be approximated by ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by simply smoothing the discontinuities. Such approximations, however, can produce unrealistic beh...

A series of experiments assessed masked priming for letters and words that are visually similar (SIM) and dissimilar (DIS) in upper- and lowercase formats. For letters, robust DIS priming was obtained in a naming task, but this priming did not extend to a variety of non-naming tasks. For words, robust DIS priming was obtained in both naming and non-naming tasks. SIM letter and word priming exte...

The National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH-DIS) was administered by trained lay interviewers to a sample of 82 outpatients with clinical diagnoses of DSM-III schizophrenic disorder. Of these subjects, 77 percent were also diagnosed as suffering from DSM-III schizophrenic disorder according to the structured interview (NIMH-DIS) administered by a lay interviewer....