We study the collective transport of robots (CTR) problem. A large number of commodity mobile robots are to be moved from one location to another by a single operator. Joysticking each one or carrying them physically is impractical. None of the robots are particularly sophisticated in their ability to plan or reason. Prior work on flocking and formation control has addressed the transport of a ...

The structure of the a-Al2O3 (1 1 0 2) surface was examined using crystal truncation rod (CTR) diffraction. The initial surface was prepared by Ar-ion sputter and anneal cycles in O2, which resulted in a clean (1 1) surface. CTR data were then collected for the clean and water-dosed surfaces (1 10 –1.6 Torr) in a UHV diffraction chamber (base pressure 1–3 10 9 Torr). Water dosing had little eff...

Background and objectives: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) previously known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy refers to a set of signs and symptoms that include pain, increased sweating, and vasomotor instability. Pain is usually triggered by a noxious stimulus in a peripheral nerve, which is disproportionate to the triggering stimulus. Its development after surgery is not uncommon varying ...

Novel FPGA architectures combined with new implementation methods influence the widespread area of embedded system design. Current research results based on the Global Run Time Reconfiguration (RTR) method show improvements to the functional density of up to 500% incon-trast to the widely used Compile Time Reconfiguration (CTR) method. In addition, the RTR method applied to a partial reconfigur...

Steven G. McNulty, Jennifer A. Moore USDA Forest Service, Southern Global Change Program 920 Main Campus Dr., Venture Ctr. II, Ste. 300, Raleigh, NC 27606 USA Louis Iverson, and Anantha Prasad USDA Forest Service Northeastern Forest Experiment Station 359 Main Road, Delaware, OH 43015 USA Robert Abt North Carolina State University 3126 Jordan Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA Bryan Smith, Ge Sun, Mic...

Background: Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR) is a common cause of both cardiomyopathy and carpal tunnel syndrome, with many patients needing release (CTR). Although tafamidis now an approved treatment ATTR cardiomyopathy, insurers in most provinces require biopsy confirmation amyloidosis. Endomyocardial often the chosen approach due to optimal sensitivity, albeit risk serious adverse events suc...

Learning sophisticated feature interactions behind user behaviors is critical in maximizing CTR for recommender systems. Despite great progress, existing methods seem to have a strong bias towards lowor high-order interactions, or require expertise feature engineering. In this paper, we show that it is possible to derive an end-to-end learning model that emphasizes both lowand highorder feature...

This paper presents a formal security analysis of SSH in counter mode in a security model that accurately captures the capabilities of real-world attackers, as well as security-relevant features of the SSH specifications and the OpenSSH implementation of SSH. Under reasonable assumptions on the block cipher and MAC algorithms used to construct the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), we are able t...

Twenty-four weaned female Hypor piglets (10.9 ± 0.1 kg mean BW) were used to evaluate the antioxidant effect of a natural extract, titrated in verbascoside, on blood and liver oxidative status in relation to a high intake of n-6 PUFA, inducing oxidative stress. Piglets were assigned to 1 of 3 experimental groups; the first group was fed a diet with 9% sunflower oil (T1) and the second received ...

Objective Presenting an estimate of a Mexican food-support program (FSP) program's cost transfer ratio (CTR) from start-up (2003) to May 2005. Methods The program's activities were listed by constructing a time allocation matrix to ascertain how much time was spent on each of the program's activities by the personnel so involved. Another cost matrix was also constructed which was completed with...