The Atmospheric Interceptor Technology (ATT) program (formerly Endo LEAP) is focused on demonstrating strapdown seekers and strapdown guidance for very small miss distance intercepts at very high velocities against ballistic missiles within the atmosphere. This is being accomplished by advancing state-of-the-art technologies for small, lightweight, highly integrated kinetic energy kill vehicles...

BACKGROUND Tailored psychosocial activity-based interventions have been shown to improve mood, behaviour and quality of life for nursing home residents. Occupational therapist delivered activity programs have shown benefits when delivered in home care settings for people with dementia. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of LEAP (Lifestyle Engagement Activity Program) for Li...

In December 2015, J‑AIM is completing six years of its publication. In the history of academic journals, six years is a very short period to expect any noticeable impact. According to the Indian tradition, the period of 12 years or one mandala of hard work is known as " Tapas. " J‑AIM has just completed only half a mandala. During this period, we have tried to take baby steps toward our goal to...

This paper provides an overview of the work currently underway at Media Lab Europe to enable an existing, open-source, FIPAcompliant agent platform with the ability to operate in an ad-hoc environment. The motivations for using agents in ad-hoc networks and the requirements this places on an agent platform are discussed. A mechanism for discovering instances of an agent platform using current s...

Although collaboration is widely accepted as the most efficient method for creating value some important barriers of knowledge sharing arise leading to the creation of noncollaborative environments. Especially in developing countries, universities have to face new challenges that rise from shifts in the knowledge production paradigms and from frequent changes in policies. Considering these part...

This study considers using Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for stochastic simulation of chemical reactions. The proposed method uses SSA (Stochastic Simulation Algorithm) distribution which is a standard method for solving well-stirred chemically reacting systems as a desired distribution. A new numerical solvers based on exponential form of exact and approximate solutions of CME (Chemical Master...

We explore the relationship between Kekulé structures and maximum face independence sets in fullerenes: plane trivalent graphs with pentagonal and hexagonal faces. For the class of leap-frog fullerenes, we show that a maximum face independence set corresponds to a Kekulé structure with a maximum number of benzene rings and may be constructed by partitioning the pentagonal faces into pairs and 3...

We describe an eecient fair queuing scheme, Leap Forward Virtual Clock, that provides end-to-end delay bounds similar to WFQ, along with throughput fairness. Our scheme can be implemented with a worst-case time O(loglog N) per packet (inclusive of sorting costs), which improves upon all previously known schemes that guarantee delay and throughput fairness similar to WFQ. Interestingly, both the...