A model is derived for the viscoelastic response of glasses at isothermal uniaxial deformation with small strains. A glass is treated as an ensemble of relaxing units with various activation energies for rearrangement. With reference to the energylandscape concept, the rearrangement process is thought of as a series of hops of relaxing units (trapped in their potential wells on the energy lands...

The growth requirements of 135 clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and six American Type Culture Collection reference strains were examined by using a simple chemically defined medium known as Wong-Shockley-Johnston medium, WSJM. The simple liquid medium supported growth of gonococci from an inoculum of 2 X 10(6) colony-forming units ml-1 and yielded 10(10) colony-forming units ml-1 in 1...

Metrics, which facilitate the measurement of parameters such as “distance” and “length” are used frequently in rigid body guidance problems. Commonly used metrics have a characteristic of being dependent on the choice of fixed or moving reference frame and the units used. Most motion synthesis algorithms require some notion of the “distance” between two desired locations. The metrics in Euclide...

Landscape can be explained both fro� positivistic and constructivistic positions. Confusion and contradictions around the landscape paradig� arise fro� different definitions (e.g. geoco�plex versus cultural landscape), the role of landscape boundaries and landscape classifications. �he deli�itation and classification of (natural) landscape units in Saxony (Ger�any), the concept of landscape fun...

Many ubiquitous computing applications rely upon location information describing the positions of people and devices. To date, location systems for ubiquitous computing have commonly supplied position data which has a single system-wide reference [1]. Examples include 3D coordinates inside a building, or public areas on a campus. In order to provide statically-referenced data, such systems nece...

Word alignment is a challenging task aiming at the identification of translational relations between words and multi-word units in parallel corpora. Many alignment strategies are based on links between single words. Different strategies can be used to find the optimal word alignment using such one-toone word links including relations between multi-word units. In this paper seven algorithms are ...

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INTRODUCTION Telemedicine has been utilized in various healthcare areas to achieve better patient outcomes, lower costs of providing services, and increase patient access to care. Tele-intensive care unit (ICU) technology has been introduced as a way to provide effective ICU services to patients with reduced access, as well as to decrease costs and improve patient care. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

This paper presents a robust control scheme for distributed generations (DGs) in islanded mode operation of a microgrid (MG). In this strategy, assuming a dynamic slack bus with constant voltage magnitude and phase angle, nonlinear equations of the MG are solved in the slack-voltage-oriented synchronous reference frame, and the instantaneous active and reactive power reference for the slack bus...

Both total nucleated cell (TNC) dose and human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-match affect the outcome of cord blood (CB) transplantation. However, how to prioritize these characteristics in unit selection is not established. Therefore, we analyzed the outcomes of 1061 patients who received single-unit myeloablative CB transplantation for leukemia or myelodysplasia. TNC dose and HLA-match each affecte...