A new leafhopper genus, Bhatiahamus gen. nov., is established for B. flabellatus (Shang & Shen) n. comb. (Bhatia) (type species) and B. sinuatus sp. nov., both from China. A key to distinguish the two species is provided. 

Michele Saysana, MD,1 Mark Shen, MD2 1Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana 2University of Texas Southwestern Austin Pediatrics, Dell Children’s Medical Center, Austin, Texas

In this short note we extend Hamilton’s advanced maximum principle for parabolic systems on closed manifolds to the case of manifolds with boundary, which also generalizes a Hopf type theorem of Shen.

In this short note we extend Hamilton’s advanced maximum principle for Ricci flow on closed manifolds to the case of manifolds with boundary, which also generalizes a Hopf type theorem of Shen.

the present study sets out to integrate the performance-based seismic design approach with the connection topology optimization method. performance-based connection topology optimization concept aims to simultaneously optimize the size of members and the type of connections with respect to the framework of performance-based seismic design. this new optimization concept is carried out for unbrac...

This thesis presents the architecture and implementation of a query system resulted from a domain-specific conceptual data modeling and querying methodology. The query system is built for a high level conceptual query language that supports dynamically userdefined domain-specific functions and application-specific functions. It is DBMSindependent and can be translated to SQL and OQL through a n...

In recent years, many password-based remote user authentication schemes have been presented. In 2003, Shen et al. proposed a timestamp-based password authentication scheme using smart cards. In their scheme, the server does not need to maintain any verification table and only stores a secret key. However, Awasthi et al. found that Shen et al.’s scheme is vulnerable to impersonation attacks with...

s and Poster PresentationsRisacher SL, Yoder KK, West JD, WuDunn D, MaGee TR, McDonald BC,Hutchins GD, Zheng QH, Saykin AJ. Relationship of visual contrast sensitivity toamyloid deposition assessed by [11C] PiB PET. Accepted for poster presentation at the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference, January 12-13, 2012. Wang H, Nie F, Huang H, Risacher SL, Ding C, Saykin AJ, Shen L, and the<lb...

Watermarking as a powerful technique for copyright protection, content verification, covert communication and so on, has been studied for years, and is drawing more and more attention recently. There are many situations in which embedding multiple watermarks in an image is desired. This paper proposes an effective approach to embed dual watermarks by extending the single watermarking algorithms...

Changchun Liu, Junchao Gao, and Songzhe Lian Department of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China Correspondence should be addressed to Changchun Liu, [email protected] Received 31 October 2011; Accepted 6 December 2011 Academic Editor: Hui-Shen Shen Copyright q 2012 Changchun Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, wh...