We investigate nonanalyticities (e.g., zeros and poles) of refractive index $n(\ensuremath{\omega})$ group ${n}_{g}(\ensuremath{\omega})$ in different optical media. first demonstrate that while a Lorentzian dielectric has no nonanalyticity the upper half complex frequency plane (CFP), its index---which governs pulse-center propagation---possesses same region. Thus we classify as (a) order (ref...

Continuing professional development (CPD), also known as continuing medical education, has been around since the earliest days of institutionalized medical instruction. After graduation from medical schools, physicians continued to learn by meeting with their peers. Hospital-based grand rounds, case discussions, and meetings to discuss published medical papers made up the bulk of the continuing...

Abstract Co-products from the ethanol industry may be able to provide high-quality sustainable protein sources for pet foods. Unlike traditional co-products, corn fermented (CFP) contains a yeast component which additional benefits. The objective of this study was determine, by exchange, effects in on diet utilization. four experimental diets included control with no (CON) and containing either...

The serious overfishing of most Mediterranean stocks demands urgent reforms of the management measures aiming to guarantee the sustainability of resources, notably when compared with the improvement observed in other European areas. The new EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) constitutes an excellent opportunity to introduce the changes needed for such a reform. According to this CFP, all European...

Exploitation of fish and shellfish stocks by the European Union fishing fleet is managed under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which aims to ensure that fishing and aquaculture are environmentally, economically and socially sustainable and that they provide a source of healthy food for E.U. citizens. A notable feature of the CFP is its legally enshrined requirement for sound scientific advic...

Data communication services based on the widelyused high performance mobile devices have been sophisticated and diversified recently. These services require increasing the data rate and enhancing the capacity of optical transmission equipment in the network systems. One of the important functions of optical transmission equipment is to transform electrical data streams to optical data signals a...

The paper introduces solution of Coalition Formation Problem (CFP) in Multi-Agents Systems (MAS) based on evolutionary algorithm. The main aim of our study is to develop an evolutionary based algorithm for creation of coalitions of agent for solving assumed tasks. We describe the coding schema and genetic operators such as mutation, crossover and selection that occurred to be efficient in solut...

This paper proposes a route multicast scheme for the moving agent such as a robot or telematics built on top of a wireless network which runs CFP (Contention Free Period) and CP (Contention Period) alternately. With the mappings of route multicast to CFP, error report to CP, and retransmission to redundant bandwidth of CFP, the proposed scheme can guarantee timely delivery of route information ...

PURPOSE To assess the clinical application of multicolor imaging by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (cSLO). METHODS Retinal imaging was performed in 76 patients including cSLO multicolor imaging (SPECTRALIS SD-OCT, Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) and color fundus photography (CFP). RESULTS The use of confocal optics, reduced light scatter and automated eye tracking enabl...

The Counterflow Pipeline (CFP) organization may be a good target for synthesis of application-specific microprocessors for embedded systems because it has a regular and simple structure. This paper describes a design environment for tailoring CFP's to an embedded application to improve performance. Our system allows exploring the design space of all possible CFP's for a given embedded applicati...