In recent times non-biodegradeable materials, especially containers of commercially baged drinking water has been a source of environmental concern to public health institutions and metropolitan, municipal and district administrations. These containers are not properly disposed of after use and choke drains and fill refuse dumping sites. Apart from the environmental problems these containers ar...

Introduction Computer security is undeniably important, and as new vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited, the perceived need for new security solutions grows. "Trusted computing" initiatives propose to solve some of today's security problems through hardware changes to the personal computer. Changing hardware design isn't inherently suspicious, but the leading trusted computing proposals...

The craniocervical junction (CCJ) is a potential choke point for craniospinal hydrodynamics and may play a causative or contributory role in the pathogenesis and progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, MS, and ALS, as well as many other neurological conditions including hydrocephalus, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, migraines, seizures, ...

Video recordings were made of 67 children with cerebral palsy and 64 able bodied children eating soft boiled ('non-mashed') and mashed potato. Those children with cerebral palsy who had no speech, presumed to have poor oral motor function, took significantly longer to eat non-mashed than mashed potato. Children with cerebral palsy, especially those with no speech, were more likely to cough or c...

The interoceanic transfer of seawater between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, 'Agulhas leakage', forms a choke point for the overturning circulation in the global ocean. Here, by combining output from a series of high-resolution ocean and climate models with in situ and satellite observations, we construct a time series of Agulhas leakage for the period 1870-2014. The time series demonstrate...

Philip W. Stather, Nicolas Sylvius, John B. Wild, Edward Choke, Robert D. Sayers and Differential MicroRNA Expression Profiles in Peripheral Arterial Disease Print ISSN: 1942-325X. Online ISSN: 1942-3268 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Circulation: Cardiovascular Genet...

This paper considers the problem of erosion in choke valves used on offshore oil platforms. A parameter commonly used to assess the valve erosion state is the flow coefficient, which can be analytically calculated as a function of both measured and allocated parameters. Since the allocated parameter estimation is unreliable, the obtained evaluation of the valve erosion level becomes inaccurate ...

Around the world, ash and thick smoke from wildfires can choke the surrounding skies. While this visible, murky mess seems to disappear with distance from the fires, polluting gases and small particles not visible to the human eye drift upward and are carried away by global air currents. Can large wildfires contribute to smog problems in distant places? Gabriele Pfister, a researcher at the Nat...

Due to the development of embed computer, improvement the bandwidth of computer is required, in order to break the choke point of the bus’ development. The text brings a hardware design method of computer based on CompactPCI Express bus, introduces the architecture of system and principle, goes into descriptions abouth the design of Swithboard, bridgeboard and rapid serial single PCB etc. The u...

@iR. ..... ........... VCCD PE ....... ........ Q ........... vcc GND ............ ........... ......... A radio frequency power amplijier for 4.8-5.7GHz has been realized in a 0.25 pm SiGe-bipolar technology. The balanced 2-stage push-pull power amplger uses two onchip transformers as input-balun and for interstage matching. Further it uses three coils for the integrated LC-output balun and th...