Continued progress in both civil and military radio-frequency (RF) digital avionics applications is overstressing the capabilities and reliability of existing RF communication networks based on coaxial cables on board modern aircrafts. Future avionics systems will require high-bandwidth on-board communication links that are lightweight, immune to electromagnetic interference, and highly reliabl...

Twenty-one multiparous sows were used in a Latin square design, from days 7 to 90 of gestation, to test the effect of fibre and food levels on feeding motivation and feeding-related stereotypies. Treatments were: VHF (very high-fibre, 29% ADF, 50% NDF, 4.5kg/day); HF (high-fibre, 23% ADF, 43% NDF, 3.5kg/day); C (control, 8% ADF, 20% NDF, 2.5kg/day); and control fed ad libitum (CAL). All diets e...

BACKGROUND Accurate diagnosis in patients presenting with lesions at various locations within the visual pathway is challenging. This study investigated functional and structural changes secondary to such lesions to identify patterns useful to guide early and effective management. METHODS Over 10,000 records from patients referred for optic nerve head assessment were reviewed and 31 patients ...

CO2 is released into the atmosphere during manufacture of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). Fly ash, a by-product coal industry, used to replace OPC in concrete. It contains lot silicate gel and mixed with an alkaline solution make good Increased fly ash fineness improves compressive strength while lowering porosity. Advances modern bio technology possible freedoms for monetary use agro-mechanica...

Grewia optiva wheat straw waste fibre and PAN are combined in this study to create new composite materials. The novel specimens were created the hydraulic hind moulding machine with varying percentages of mass fibres, (2–8%) an equivalent ratio other materials, Kevlar fibre-based composites (2–4%). Natural fibre-reinforced clothing is getting increasingly fashionable these days; thus, research ...

Introduction In recent years Spherical Deconvolution (SD) methods have been applied to diffusion imaging to improve the visualization of multi-fibre orientation in brain regions with complex white matter organization [1][2][3]. However, the potential to quantify white matter integrity with SD has not been explored. Previous simulations have shown that the variation of fibre diffusion properties...

Developing effective therapeutic interventions for pathological conditions associated with abnormal oxygen transport to muscle fibres critically depends on the objective characterisation of capillarity. Local indices of capillary supply have the potential to identify the onset of fine-scale tissue pathologies and dysregulation. Detailed tissue geometry, such as muscle fibre size, has been incor...

The iFCP protocol (RFC 4172) provides Fibre Channel fabric functionality on an IP network in which TCP/IP switching and routing elements replace Fibre Channel components. The iFCP protocol is used between iFCP Gateways. This document provides a mechanism to monitor and control iFCP Gateway instances, and their associated sessions, using SNMP.

The maturity and mission-critical deployment of Fibre Channel (FC) in storage area networks (SANs) creates a unique class of multi-terabit networks with demanding throughput, latency, scalability, robustness, and availability requirements. This paper reviews the state of and critical system-level requirements for SANs. It describes how Internet SCSI (iSCSI), FC over IP (FCIP), and Internet FC P...

BACKGROUND Reports of relationships between dietary fibre intake and breast cancer have been inconsistent. Previous cohort studies have been limited by a narrow range of intakes. METHODS Women who developed invasive breast cancer, 350 post-menopausally and 257 pre-menopausally, during 240,959 person-years of follow-up in the UK Women's Cohort Study (UKWCS) were studied. This cohort has 35,792...