Current systems and architectures in the domains of distributed and embedded computing are complex, respond badly to many application needs, and are not easily specialisable to better support a given application or host platform. This leads to a proliferation of non-reusable ad-hoc solutions. Our goal is to develop a exible, object-oriented virtual execution environment (VEE), dynamically speci...

Mesenteronal infection and transmission thresholds for several Middle American epizootic and enzootic Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) viruses were evaluated in field-collected (Guatemala) and colonized individuals of the enzootic vector mosquito Culex (Melanoconion) taeniopus. Approximate thresholds for 3 epizootic, hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) subtype I-AB strains were 10 chick e...

For a connected reductive group $G$ defined over $\mathbb{F}_q$ and equipped with the induced Frobenius endomorphism $F$, we study relation among following three $\mathbb{Z}$-algebras: (i) $\mathbb{Z}$-model $\mathsf{E}_G$ of algebras Gelfand-Graev representations $G^F$; (ii) Grothendieck $\mathsf{K}_{G^\ast}$ category $G^{\ast F^\ast}$ $\overline{\mathbb{F}_q}$ (Deligne-Lusztig dual side); (ii...

Exposure of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus (at -70 C) to 6 x 10 r gamma-radiation (Co) resulted in loss of lethality for young adult mice and guinea pigs, and loss of capacity to produce plaques or cytopathic effects in tissue culture. The suckling mouse was more sensitive for detecting live virus in radiated suspensions than was the adult mouse or guinea pig. Live virus was de...

Traditional spatial queries return, for a given query object q, all database objects that satisfy a given predicate, such as epsilon range and k-nearest neighbors. This paper defines and studies inverse spatial queries, which, given a subset of database objects Q and a query predicate, return all objects which, if used as query objects with the predicate, contain Q in their result. We first sho...

Using Galois theory, we explicitly construct (in all complex dimensions $$g\ge 2$$ ) an infinite family of simple $$g$$ -dimensional tori $$T$$ that enjoy the following properties: $$\bullet$$ Picard number is $$0;$$ in particular, algebraic dimension $$0$$ ; if $$T^\vee$$ dual , then $$\mathrm{Hom}(T,T^\vee)=\{0\}$$ automorphism group $$\mathrm{Aut}(T)$$ isomorphic to $$\{\pm 1\} \times \mathb...

where Frob^ G Gal(Q/Q) is a Frobenius element at p. Then we say that p arises from ƒ. In [Se 2], Serre conjectures that every such p arises from some cusp form ƒ. He furthermore gives a procedure for determining from p the type (N,k,e) of a modular form which gives rise to it. A second conjecture found in [Se 1], implied by the conjecture above, asserts that in certain cases if such a p arises ...

The object of this paper is to study $(epsilon)$-Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifolds. Some typical identities for the curvature tensor and the Ricci tensor of $(epsilon)$-Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifold are investigated. Further, we study globally $phi$-Ricci symmetric and weakly $phi$-Ricci symmetric $(epsilon)$-Lorentzian para-Sasakian manifolds and obtain interesting results.