I have just returned from NEHA’s 78th Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was one of our most successful AECs with over 1,000 attendees. The AEC’s President’s Banquet was attended by one of the largest crowds in recent memory. Additional tables were needed to seat everyone. The excitement of the crowd was amplifi ed by members of NEHA and the Internationa...

The abilities to either flexibly adjust behavior according to changing demands (cognitive flexibility) or to maintain it in the face of potential distractors (cognitive stability) are critical for adaptive behavior in many situations. Recently, a novel human paradigm has found individual differences of cognitive flexibility and stability to be related to common prefrontal networks. The aims of ...

We intended this Festschrift as a celebration of Dr. Stephen L. Wood’s 85th birthday. Sadly Dr. Wood past away a little before his 85th birthday thus this volume pays tribute to his life’s contribution to the study of bark and ambrosia beetles, which is summarized in the next article by Donald Bright. We arranged the volume geographically, starting with taxonomy of North American scolytines, fo...

Research background: Flexibility has become a possible means for manufacturing companies to better compete in competitive markets. Furthermore, innovations are perceived as an important factor company strategy, which can differentiate the from competition. Purpose of article: This present study investigates problems cooperation flexibility and innovation among electrical engineering Czech Repub...

Since the advent of evolution strategies many attempts have been done to improve the mutation operator [7]. The first enhancement could be seen in the introduction of a flexible step size. As a logical consequence later n step sizes, one per variable, were used. Highest flexibility is achieved with the correlated mutation but also quadratic growth of the number of strategy parameters [8]. A new...

A multiscale meshfree particle method is developed, which includes recent advances in SPH and other meshfree research efforts. Key features will include linear consistency, stability, and both local and global conservation properties. In addition, through the incorporation of Reproducing Kernal Particle Method(RKPM), standard moving least squares (MLS) enhancement and wavelet techniques, the me...

Since the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing was completed, work in ISO in this area has concentrated on the definition of a number of supporting standards to add detail to the basic framework. Taken together, these provide a powerful structure for the support of large federated systems and provide a basis for the enhancement of tools for the development and maintenance of large mi...

background: osteoarthritis is one of the most common diseases in synovial joints. dueto high loading forces during weight-bearing activities, the knee joint is prone to degenerative processes. this study aimed to compare the flexibility of muscles around the knee joint in patients with knee osteoarthritis with those of healthy individuals. methods: twenty-three women with bilateral knee osteoar...

Owing to their high capacity and flexibility, broadband wireless communications have been widely employed in radio and microwave regimes, playing indispensable roles in our daily life. Their optical analogs, however, have not been demonstrated at the nanoscale. In this paper, by exploiting plasmonic nanoantennas, we demonstrate the complete design of broadband wireless links and networks in the...