Present descriptions of nitric oxide (NO) transport in the lungs use two compartment models: airway compartment without mixing and alveolar compartment with perfect mixing. These models neglect NO molecular diffusion in the airways. To assess the impact of axial diffusion on expired NO profile, we solved a transport equation that incorporated diffusion, convection, and NO sources in the symmetr...

Using a nonperturbative method based on asymptotic behaviour of Wilson loops we calculate masses of glueballs and corresponding Regge–trajectories. The only input is string tension fixed by meson Regge slope, while perturbative contributions to spin splittings are defined by standard αs values. The masses of lowest glueball states are in a perfect agreement with lattice results. The leading glu...

We determine the mixing time of a simple Gibbs sampler on the unit simplex, confirming a conjecture of D. Aldous. The upper bound is based on a two-step coupling, where the first step is a simple contraction argument and the second step is a non-Markovian coupling. We also present a MCMC-based perfect sampling algorithm that is based on our proof and which can be applied to Gibbs samplers that ...

the start up dynamics of a one-million and two-hundred-thousand liter anaerobic digester of municipal waste treatment sludge was studied. in the digester, mixing was accomplished by circulation of the produced biogas at a rate of 0.13 m3 per hour of the digester volume per hour. during the nine-month study, no serious phenomena of foaming, getting sour, temperature fall, etc. were observed desp...

A new way of constructing (minimal) perfect hash functions is described. The technique considerably reduces the overhead associated with resolving buckets in two-level hashing schemes. Evaluating a hash function requires just one multiplication and a few additions apart from primitive bit operations. The number of accesses to memory is two, one of which is to a fixed location. This improves the...

We consider the problem of covering the complete r-uniform hypergraphs on n vertices using complete r-partite graphs. We obtain lower bounds on the size of such a covering. For small values of r our result implies a lower bound of Ω( e r r √ r n log n) on the size of any such covering. This improves the previous bound of Ω(rn log n) due to Snir [5]. We also obtain good lower bounds on the size ...

Organic Light Emitting Displays (OLED) is a new type of display device which has become increasingly attractive and popular. Due to the complex manufacturing process, various defects may exist on the OLED panel affecting the quality and life of the display panels. These defects have the characteristics of fuzzy boundaries, irregular in shape, low contrast with background and especially, they ar...