Resistance of wood reacted in situ with phosphorus pentoxide-amine to the brown-rot fungus Gloeophyllum trabeum and white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor was examined. Wood reacted with either octyl, tribromo, or nitro derivatives were more resistant to both fungi. Threshold retention values of phosphoramide-reacted wood to white-rot fungus T. versicolor ranged from 2.9 to 13.3 mmol, while these...

Over half of the total electricity consumption is used in buildings. Air-conditioning and electric lighting are the two main resources of electricity consumption in high rise buildings. One way to reduce electricity consumption would be to limit heat gain into buildings, therefore reduce the demand for air-conditioning during hot summer months especially in hot regions. On the other hand natura...

Fatigue is a common problem in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), experienced by the majority of patients, with fatigue scores that are often higher than pain scores [1,2]. Despite this, patients feel fatigue has been largely ignored by clinicians. This article provides a personal overview of the journey of RA fatigue from ‘nonexistence’ to ‘hot topic’ and looks toward a time when fatigue might return ...

We show how data independence results can be used to generalise an inductive proof from binary to arbitrary branching tree networks. The example used is modelled on the RSVP Resource Reservation Protocol. Of particular interest is the need for a separate lower-level induction which is itself closely tied to data independence. The inductions combine the use of the process algebra CSP to model sy...

In recent years sustainability has become a ‘hot topic’ and something al organisations want to be seen as being identified with. The twin disciplines of quality and HRM have joined this bandwagon. In HR terms this has meant a shift in emphasis away from human management to resource management with the argument that organisations need to allow the needs and aspirations of individuals to be place...

Pursuit formation control of double-integrator Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) is considered in this paper. To achieve a formation, a hierarchical control scheme is proposed in two layers. In the first layer, in a leaderless architecture, each agent pursues another one in a cyclic topology to achieve a regular polygon formation around a centroid, namely, pursuit centroid, and in the second layer, th...

At Asiacrypt 2015, Barbulescu et al. performed a thorough analysis of the tower number field sieve (TNFS) variant of the number field sieve algorithm. More recently, Kim and Barbulescu combined the TNFS variant with several polynomial selection methods including the Generalised Joux-Lercier method and the Conjugation method proposed by Barbulescu et al. at Eurocrypt 2015. Sarkar and Singh (Euro...

Summay.-The effects of specific versus variable practice on retention and transfer was investigated. 30 participants were randomly assigned to one of three practice conditions. The variable speed group practiced on a pursuit rotor task at three different speeds (60, 45, 30 rpm) which were randomly distributed but equal in number for 30 10-sec. trials on Day 1. The Specific Practice group perfor...

Bicyclooxacalixarenes were synthesized in high yield via a selective, rooro temperature SNAr reaction of phluoroglucinol with 2,6-dichloropyridines. Functionality 00 the 2,6-dichloropyridioe was varied by changing the electron-withdrawing groups in the 3 and 5 positions (using chlorine, nitro groups, and cyano groups) and the side-chains in the 4-position (using ethyl, butyl, phenyl and p-tolyl...

Ligand-free Pd(OAc)2 was found to catalyze very efficiently the direct C2-arylation of benzothiophene derivatives under low catalyst concentration. The reaction can be performed employing as little as 0.5-0.1 mol-% catalyst with electron-deficient and some electron-rich aryl bromides. The presence of a methyl or a formyl substituent at C3 of benzothiophene has a minor influence on the reactivit...