Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) consists of a group of mobile nodes that can communicate with each other without the need of infrastructure. The movement of nodes in MANET is random; therefore MANETs have a dynamic topology. Because of this dynamic topology, the link breakages in these networks are something common. This problem causes high data loss and delay. In order to decrease these problems...

In recent years, heat treatment has attracted attention as a means to improve the color sorting technology with the aim of improving the quality of low-grade limestone. The crucial stage in this technique is to evaluate the breakage characteristics of the sample materials after color sorting. In this study, the breakage characteristics of samples showing color differences after heat treatment a...

Phleomycin induced DNA breakage was investigated with superhelical Col. E1 DNA and linear T2 DNA as well. In both DNA-forms besides single-strand breaks direct double-strand breaks were produced by the drug. The double-strand breakage rate obtained after treatment with phleomycin, however, was considerably smaller than that found after bleomycin treatment. Whereas the single- and double-strand ...

Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita is a condition characterized by multiple contractures of the joints. Involvement of the temporomandibular joint is a common complication that limits mandibular opening. A case of Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita with anterior open bite and limited maximal incisal opening is presented. Orthognathic surgery, consisting of segmental LeFort I osteotomy and bilat...

The empirical joint distribution of return-pairs on stock indices displays high tail-dependence in the lower tail and low tail-dependence in the upper tail. The presence of tail-dependence is not compatible with the assumption of (conditional) joint normality. The presence of asymmetric-tail dependence is not compatible with the assumption of a joint student -t distribution. A general test for ...

BACKGROUND Identifying and characterizing how mixtures of exposures are associated with health endpoints is challenging. We demonstrate how classification and regression trees can be used to generate hypotheses regarding joint effects from exposure mixtures. METHODS We illustrate the approach by investigating the joint effects of CO, NO2, O3, and PM2.5 on emergency department visits for pedia...

In this article, the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem of wideband signal sources is studied. We pass the incident signals through a bank of narrowband filters to split the array outputs into several narrowband components. Then, a novel slice-sparse representation model of the joint narrowband array covariance data is proposed in the frequency domain to enforce joint sparsity in the...

Because of capacity constraints, the companieswho produce joint products have to assess the desirability of further processing joint products beyond the split-off point. Especially in a situation in which market demands exceed the company’s production capacity. In order to satisfy customer’s orders and maximize total profits, these companies must study the feasibility of expanding capacity or o...

In this paper, we study the phenomenon that instruction sequences are split into fragments which somehow produce a joint behaviour. In order to bring this phenomenon better into the picture, we formalize a simple mechanism by which several instruction sequence fragments can produce a joint behaviour. We also show that, even in the case of this simple mechanism, it is a non-trivial matter to exp...

INTRODUCTION Split tendon transfers of tibialis anterior (TA) or tibialis posterior (TP) are commonly performed to correct varus deformity of the hindfoot in patients with cerebral palsy, stroke, and brain injury. Both of these procedures involve detaching half of the tendon from its medial insertion and reattaching laterally such that the muscle acts as a balanced yoke that neither inverts nor...