The purpose of the WAND demonstrator performance measurements was to evaluate how well the requirements of the WAND system design are met. This deliverable sums up the results of the performance evaluation. A special focus is put on evaluation of the WAND specific components that were designed and implemented within the project. The performance of the WAND radio sub-system, consisting of WAND r...

Neurons receive synaptic inputs on extensive neurite arbors. How information is organized across arbors and how local processing in neurites contributes to circuit function is mostly unknown. Here, we used two-photon Ca2+ imaging to study visual processing in VGluT3-expressing amacrine cells (VG3-ACs) in the mouse retina. Contrast preferences (ON vs. OFF) varied across VG3-AC arbors depending o...

Microgrid concept acts as a solution to integrate large amounts of micro generation without disrupting the operation of utility grid. Power generation from renewable energy sources like wind, solar, fuel cells, microturbines etc will give significant momentum in near future. Thus, hybrid AC/DC microgrid will be the best solution to reduce multiple reverse conversions (dc-ac-dc or ac-dc-ac) in a...

Avian leukosis viruses (ALVS) cause different types of tumours in poultry and can affect the health and egg production of the birds. To investigate the presence of the virus in chicken layer flocks in Shiraz, 222 egg albumen from local layer breeder (25 eggs), local layer grand parent (30 eggs), broiler breeder (60 eggs), commercial layer (46 eggs) and broiler grand parent (61 eggs) were tested...

Market power assessment is a prime concern when designing a deregulated electricity market. In this paper, we propose a new functional market power measure, termed transmission constrained network flow TCNF , that takes into account an AC model of the network. The measure unifies three large classes of long-term transmission constrained market power indices in the literature: residual supply ba...

This paper presents the admission control (AC) algorithms that are implemented in the prototype multiservice AQUILA QoS IP network [4]. The discussed algorithms were developed for regulating traffic submitted to network services (NS) dedicated for handling: (1) real-time streaming traffic of variable bit rate (VBR) type, and (2) elastic traffic, produced by greedy TCP sources. For the former NS...

Two experiments examine speed-up in argument pairs of various propositional forms. In the first experiment, participants were presented with pairs of conditional arguments. Some of these pairs had a form of a valid Modus Ponens (MP) inference, whereas other pairs had a form of a fallacy of Affirming the Consequent (AC). In both argument pairs, presentation of the prime led to a significant spee...

Adult articular cartilage (AC) has a well described multizonal collagen structure. Knowledge of foetal AC organisation and development may provide a prototype for cartilage repair strategies, and improve understanding of structural changes in developmental diseases such as osteochondrosis (OC). The objective of this study was to describe normal development of the spatial architecture of the col...

The aim of this review is to update the indications, contraindications, technique, complications, and the tissue engineering approaches of augmentation cystoplasty (AC) in patients with neurogenic bladder. PubMed/MEDLINE was searched for the keywords "augmentation cystoplasty," "neurogenic bladder," and "bladder augmentation." Additional relevant literature was determined by examining the refer...