at the Society in 1895 (see vol. xiv. of the "Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh" ), and is intended to give the results of extended experience and the after-history of the cases formerly narrated. We may with some advantage generalise on a few preliminary points of interest. The diagnosis of stricture of the large intestine has rarely presented difficulties. The sympto...

The expected performance of the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in QCD and top quark measurements is discussed, with a focus on the early data taking phase. Such processes are amongst the primary backgrounds in the searches for new physics, and thus must be understood very well before discoveries can be made. In addition, they serve as useful detector calibration cand...

One of the options considered for the ECFA-CERNNuPECC design study for a Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) [1] based on the LHC is adding a recirculating energy-recovery linac tangential to the LHC. First designs of the electron Final Focus System have shown the need to correct the chromatic aberrations. Two designs using different approaches for the chromaticity correction are compared, na...

⎯ This paper presents a case study on the challenges of teaching state-of-the-art design to undergraduate students. The issues encountered are exposed specifically through the discussion of the development and teaching of a comprehensive first course in Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit (VLSI) design at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Index Terms ⎯ Design Education, Undergraduate Education,...

The ALICE experiment is designed to study strongly interacting nuclear matter which will be produced in heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The muon spectrometer of the ALICE experiment is equipped with a trigger system based on resistive plate chambers. A commissioning phase was started in 2008 with the detection of cosmic rays and induced particles of the first beam injec...

The Higgs boson is hoped to be discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when it begins running in 2008. The most promising channel for its discovery is the decay path Higgs → 2 Z bosons → 4 muons. The leading order backgrounds for this signal have been well studied but insufficient knowledge exists regarding the total influence of the lower order backgrounds. The project seeks to determine...

In this paper, we present a methodology and techniques for generating cycle-accurate macro-models for registertransfer (RT)-level power analysis. The proposed macro-model predicts not only the cycle-by-cycle power consumption of a module, but also the moving average of power consumption and the power profile of the module over time. We propose an exact power function and approximation steps to ...

The aim of this new project is to develop an aerosol/cloud microphysics parameterization of mixed-phase stratus and boundary layer clouds. Our approach is to create, test, and implement a bulk-microphysics/aerosol model using data from Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) sites and large-eddy simulation (LES) explicit bin-resolving aerosol/microphysics mode...

Sequencing of large clones or small genomes is generally done by the shotgun approach (Anderson et al. 1982). This has two phases: (1) a shotgun phase in which a number of reads are generated from random subclones and assembled into contigs, followed by (2) a directed, or finishing phase in which the assembly is inspected for correctness and for various kinds of data anomalies (such as contamin...

Power-suppressed corrections to parton evolution may affect the theoretical accuracy of current determinations of parton distributions. We study the role of multigluon-exchange terms in the extraction of the gluon distribution for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Working in the high-energy approximation, we analyze multi-gluon contributions in powers of 1/Q2. We find a moderate, negative correc...