The main purpose of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS is to measure the Branching Ratio of the ultra-rare kaon decay K+ → π+νν̄ with 10% accuracy. This will be achieved by collecting about 100 events with a Signal to Background ratio of 10/1. NA62 will use a 75 GeV/c unseparated charged hadron beam and a kaon decay-in-flight technique. For the kaon identification a hydrogen gas-filled differen...

To test the hypothesis that eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) is allelopathic, seedling establishment of five herbaceous prairie species was evaluated by growing seeds in soil collected beneath and adjacent to a stand ofthis tree species. While four species showed no significant effect, the gennination of one species, finger coreopsis (Coreopsis pa/mata Nutt.), was significantly reduc...

CEDAR is an algorithm for QoS routing in ad hoc network environments. It has three key components: (a) the establishment and maintenance of a self-organizing routing infrastructure called the core for performing route computations, (b) the propagation of the link-state of stable high-bandwidth links in the core through increase/decrease waves, and (c) a QoS route computation algorithm that is e...

The tea bag method provides a replicable and standardized to study the effect of environmental variables on decomposition standard litter, which enables comparison organic matter rates large scale. However, it remains uncertain whether in response wetness is representative that local litters. We performed incubation experiments examine soil water becomes inhibitory at higher contents, as case l...

High accuracy character recognition techniques can provide useful information for segmentation-based handwritten word recognition systems. This research describes neural network-based techniques for segmented character recognition that may be applied to the segmentation and recognition components of an off-line handwritten word recognition system. Two neural architectures along with two differe...

OF PSEUDO-STROKE POSITIONS AND DIRECTIONS HANHONG XUE AND VENU GOVINDARAJU CEDAR, State University of New York at Bu alo, Bu alo, NY 14260, USA E-mail: fhxue, [email protected] alo.edu Chain-coded contours are informative in o -line character recognition. As approximations to contours, sequences of pseudo-strokes consisting of both positional and directional information make up feature vectors f...

Methods The influence of histamine H1 receptor antagonists on eosinophil functions was examined through the choice of levocetirizine hydrochloride (LH) in vivo.Patients with Japanese cedar pollinosis were orally treated with LH once a day at a single dose of 5 mg for two weeks during Japanese cedar pollen season (February 2012 to April 2012). Nasal secretions were obtained before and after trea...

The unique teatures of the International Sailing Canoe have intrigued naval architects and sailors for years. This paper highlights the historical design development, describes current trends. and presents results from finite element analyses of three popular conSlruction methods: cold·molded cedar. fiberglass, and carbon/epoxy. Comparisons are presented of the bending and torsional stillness, ...