The Clar aromatic sextet theory predicts that the intensity of cyclic conjugation in chevron-type benzenoid hydrocarbons monotonically decreases along the central chain. This regularity has been tested by means of several independent theoretical methods (by the energy effects of the respective sixmembered rings, as well as by their HOMA, NICS, and SCI values, calculated at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)...

GAMMA is a prototype lightweight communication system based on the Active Ports paradigm, designed for eecient implementation over Fast Ethernet interconnects. The original implementation started in 1996 based on 3Com 3C595 cards. The optimizations obtained on that NICs allowed us to obtain the lowest latency and highest throughput results ever published in the literature for Fast Ethernet. Tec...

Modern Network Interface Cards (NICs) incorporate programmable processors, DMA channels, and a significant amount of memory on them. Thus, they are becoming faster, smarter, and intelligent and are being designated as “Active Network Interfaces.” Similar to an executive offloading common tasks to his/her secretary, a modern NIC provides flexibility to offload parts of a communication protocol f...

Empirical evidence obtained from data covering Eurozone countries, other industrialized countries, and newly industrialized countries (NICs) over 1980– 2006 shows that exchange rate uncertainty has a consistent positive and significant effect on the volatility of bilateral trade flows. A one standard deviation increase in exchange rate uncertainty leads to an eight per cent increase in trade vo...

Nursing informatics competencies (NIC) refer to the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use technological resources to provide effective care using health care technology (TIGER, 2006). NICs are crucial in providing patient-centered care in healthcare, an industry that uses different technology to support clinical activities, for example, electronic health records (EHR). This study will ...

This paper develops a simple three-region model of the global economy along structuralist lines, with the North, NICs, and the (rest of the) South. The North produces an investment-cumconsumption good while the NICs and the South produce two different consumption goods. The North grows with excess capacity along Kalecki-Keynes lines; the NICs are modelled along Marxian lines with a given rate o...

Since 1948 the World Health Organization (WHO) has established an international network of laboratories for the surveillance of influenza viruses. Currently, the Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN) includes 128 National Influenza Centers (NICs) distributed in 89 countries. Among their attributions the NICs are responsible for collecting and receiving specimens and virus isolates from p...

This Birds of a Feather session will provide an overview of the National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) initiative.