to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases (WHO, 2011). Smoking is known as one of the main risk factors of cardiovascular diseases (Ezzati et al., 2005; Norum, 2005; WHO, 2011; Eriksen et al., 2012). World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that about 6 million people die annually from smoking. If current mortality trends continue, it will rise to more ...

The authors tested whether a simple model based on the cancellation of the rate of change in bearing angle could account for the behavioral adaptations produced when individuals intercept moving balls while walking. In Experiment 1, the place of arrival of the ball and the angle of approach were varied. In accord with the model, velocity regulations were earlier and more pronounced the larger t...

This paper reports a complete solution for short-acquisition-time, flood-illumination, and non-scanning 3D imaging. Based on an InGaAs/InP 64×64 Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode array, we developed single-photon imaging Lidar with field of view 19.2 mrad. A spatiotemporal dominant method was also applied depth estimation under high daytime background noise conditions. In the tests, information ...

Molecular imaging is expected to change the face of drug discovery and development. The ability to link imaging to biology for guiding therapy should improve the rate at which novel imaging technologies, probes, contrast agents, drugs and drug delivery systems can be transferred into clinical practice. Nuclear medicine imaging, in particular, positron emission tomography (PET) allows the detect...

IA-64 is Intel Corporation’s recently released 64-bit architecture. It includes features such as data/control speculation, instruction predication and a large number of parallel resources. Also included is a novel memory management unit that allows orthogonal translation and protection mechanisms to be used. This flexibility opens up opportunities for improved memory management techniques. This...

The conjecture (and associated speculation) that I would like to present below is motivated by ideas I learnt from Goodwillie and Weiss. I present it here because I think it is also very much in the spirit of Mislin’s approach to mathematics. All of my suggestions can be discussed for categories of a certain sort and covariant functors of appropriate kinds, and dualized to contravariant functor...