Providing key pre-distribution in personal area networks (PANs) remains a challenging problem, in particular because of the unique characteristics of, and constraints on, such networks. Several key pre-distribution schemes have been proposed for use in PANs, but these schemes only support key management within a PAN. In a ubiquitous environment, however, users with multiple personal wireless de...

On May 23 and 24, 2013, the First PANS Consensus Conference was convened at Stanford University, calling together a geographically diverse group of clinicians and researchers from complementary fields of pediatrics: General and developmental pediatrics, infectious diseases, immunology, rheumatology, neurology, and child psychiatry. Participants were academicians with clinical and research inter...

“Heat Flux” instruments use an alternative method where both pans are heated from a single heating source in the DSC cell walls. The temperature difference between the two pans is monitored using thermocouples positioned under the sample and reference pans. The actual heat flow into or out of the sample pan is calculated from the measured temperature difference. This approach is that used by TA...

on the meteorological site at the Experiment station, evapoEvaporation from fibreglass pans painted silver was less than ration from the metal pan was greater. from Class 'A' (metal) pans. Painting the fibreglass pans with dark paint decreased the difference in evaporation but the seasonal differences were not uniform. It was also shown that placing a screen over both types of pans decreased ev...

This paper proposes a method by means of which it is possible to calculate the circulation and evaporation rates and thus optimise the design of pans. It is shown that when designing batch pans there is an optimum combination of tube length, diameter and circulation ratio to produce maximum circulation for a given graining volume and heating surface/volume ratio. Similarly when designing contin...

  In northern Kazakhstan and neighbouring parts of the West Siberian Plain of Russia is one of the world’s biggest concentrations of pans. The area has thousands of them. Landsat imagery and Google Earth images indicate their distribution within this semi-arid area and their forms and associated lunette dunes. Many of the pans, most of which are small, wet and shallow, show a characteristic sha...

Objectives: Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and its subset, pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS), are emerging autoimmune encephalopathies of childhood. Management guidelines are needed. This article, from the PANS PANDAS Consortium, presents a consensus management guideline for the infection components. Accompany...

OBJECTIVE This article outlines the consensus guidelines for symptomatic treatment for children with Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Associated with Streptococcal Infection (PANDAS). METHODS Extant literature on behavioral, psychotherapeutic, and psychopharmacologic treatments for PANS and PANDAS was reviewed. Members o...

We have built a network, called the CHOICE network, which globally authenticates users and then securely connects them to the Internet via a high-speed local area wireless network. Our network provides easy-to-use, individualcentric, service-oriented wireless Internet access in places other than the traditional corporate offices and homes. Our architecture is hardware and protocol agnostic and ...

We have built a network, called the CHOICE network, which globally authenticates users and then securely connects them to the Internet via a high-speed local area wireless network. Our network provides easy-to-use, individual-centric, service-oriented wireless Internet access in places other than the traditional corporate offices and homes. Our architecture is hardware and protocol agnostic and...