Rail freight activity in Britain has increased by almost 50% in the last ten years, with the movement of deep sea ISO containers between ports and inland terminals being a significant growth sector, with considerable further growth potential. High cube (9’6” height) ISO containers have become more prevalent, posing a considerable challenge for rail freight operators since much of the rail netwo...

This paper proposes a simple and efficient technique to generate uniformly random points in a tetrahedron. The technique generates random points in a cube, and folds the cube into the barycentric space of the tetrahedron in a way that preserves uniformity.

The cube attack is a powerful cryptanalytic technique and is especially powerful against stream ciphers. Since we need to analyze the complicated structure of a stream cipher in the cube attack, the cube attack basically analyzes it by regarding it as a blackbox. Therefore, the cube attack is an experimental attack, and we cannot evaluate the security when the size of cube exceeds an experiment...

The study of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy is hindered by problems with LV mass measurement by echocardiography. Both the M-mode and 2D area-length formulas for calculating LV mass assume a fixed geometric shape, which may be a source of error. We examined this hypothesis by using cardiovascular magnetic resonance images to eliminate the confounding effects of acoustic access and image qual...

A method for computing the Disjoint-Sum-Of-Products (DSOP) form of Boolean functions is described. The algorithm exploits the property of the most binate variable in a set of cubes to compute a DSOP form. The technique uses a minimized Sum-Of-Products (SOP) cube list as input. Experimental results comparing the size of the DSOP cube list produced by this algorithm and those produced by other me...

BACKGROUND This crossover study compared fiber-optic assessment of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) position in children using two LMA insertion techniques, i.e., standard and rotational. METHODS Seventy-eight ASA I children, aged 2.5 months to 10 years, undergoing elective cataract surgery were included in this study. LMA was inserted in random order using either standard or rotational technique,...

A new technique is developed for accurate determination of the three-dimensional position and orientation of known sparse objects, e.g., a configuration of points, from a single-perspective projection. In this technique, a computer model of the known object is translated and rotated so as to align it optimally in a least-squares sense with the projection lines connecting the image points with t...

The cooling of molecules during the adiabatic expansion of supersonic seeded molecular beams is reviewed and illustrated by the example of NO -molecules. The reduction of the Doppler width by collimation of the beam and the cooling to low rotational temperatures brings a significant simplification of the complex NO -absorption spectrum and allows its assignment. The measured rotational tem...