We review the scientific history of random close packing (RCP) of equal spheres, advocated by J D Bernal as a more plausible alternative to the non-ideal gas or imperfect crystal as a structural model of simple liquids. After decades of neglect, computer experiments are revealing a central role for RCP in the theory of liquids. These demonstrate that the RCP amorphous state of hard spheres can ...

This paper shows that the selected CMIP5 models consistently capture such important climate features as the stratospheric cooling trend due to anthropogenic emissions, the stratospheric warming episodes due to volcanic eruptions, etc. However, authors have misused the CMIP5 data in sections 3.1, 3.2 and 5a as far as the El Niño/La Niña signals are concerned. Thus, the manuscript requires a majo...

The Reader Collision Problem (RCP) is a bottle-neck decreasing the reading efficiency in multiplereader RFID systems. This paper proposed a novel anti-collision protocol – DRA (Distributed Reservation-based Anti-collision) protocol to solve the RCP in multiple-reader RFID systems. Temporal Cluster Headers (TCHs) are dynamically selected among the potentially interfered readers in DRA protocol. ...

An analysis was made of cell length and cycle time in time-lapse films of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe using wild-type (WT) cells and those of various mutants. The more important conclusions about 'size controls' are: (1) there is a marker in G2 in WT cells provided by a rate change point (RCP) where the linear rate of length growth increases by approximately 30%. The period befo...

Abstract. Warming trends in the Laurentian Great Lakes and surrounding areas have been observed recent decades, concerns continue to rise about pace pattern of future climate change over world's largest freshwater system. To date, most regional models used for projections either neglected lake-atmosphere interactions or are only coupled with a 1-D column lake model represent hydrodynamics. This...

Future increases in flooding potential around the world’s coastlines from extreme sea level events is heavily dependent on projections of future global mean sea level (GMSL) rise. Yet, the two main approaches for projecting 21st century GMSL rise—i.e., process-based versus semi-empirical—give inconsistent results. Here, a novel hybrid approach to GMSL projection, containing a process-based ther...

Empirical results have shown that the classical critical path (CP) list scheduling heuristic for task graphs is a fast and practical heuristic when communication cost is zero. In the rst part of this paper we study the theoretical properties of the CP heuristic that lead to near optimum performance in practice. In the second part we extend the CP analysis to the problem of ordering the task exe...

Riboflavin carrier (or binding) protein (RCP) was isolated from the Emu egg yolk (Dromaius novaehollandia) for the first time. In the present study an attempt has been made to isolate and purify the RCP in two steps, DEAE Sephadex A-50 ion exchange chromatography and the final purification was achieved on sephadex G-100.The purity of the protein was judged on cylindrical and slab gel electropho...

During the period 1979–1992, on average nearly 400 people each year were killed in the United States by excessive heat (NOAA 1995; Kilbourne 1997). In fact, in this period over the United States, excessive heat accounted for more reported deaths annually than hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and lightning combined (NOAA 1995). Furthermore, agriculture products such as wheat, rice, corn and maize ...