It is my honor to introduce this year’s recipient of the Proctor Medal, Nicolas G. Bazan. By any measure, Nic is a big man. A welcome from him usually includes a big bear hug. He also has a huge appetite for life, for curiosity, for innovation, for the growth of young scientists, and for food and music. As a consequence, his work has been extraordinarily honored with prizes similar to today’s P...

Background: Dialysis is a method of maintaining body function in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). therapy causes several complications. Therefore, it needs special approach to ensure that the nursing process CKD who undergoing hemodialysis goes well.Objective: To analyze case using North American Nursing Diagnosis Association-Nursing Outcome Classification-Nursing Intervention Classi...

The title compound, NH(4) (+)·C(2)H(8)NO(6)P(2) (-)·2H(2)O, was obtained by the reaction between 1-amino-ethane-1,1-diyldiphospho-nic acid and ammonium hydroxide (1:1) in an aqueous solution. The asymmetric unit contains one anion with two H atoms transferred from the phospho-nic acid groups to the amino group of the anion and to an ammonia mol-ecule, giving an ammonium cation. The structure di...

We present an integrated dual approach to reduce power consumption in infrastructure-mode 802.11 wireless LANs. A novel distributed power control algorithm adaptively adjusts the transmit power of the 802.11 radio/NIC to achieve power savings in the presence of mobility and RF noise. An adaptive radio activation algorithm selectively sleeps the 802.11 radio/NIC to reduce idle power consumption....

Nowadays, servers are popularly virtualized and highly consolidated, requiring much more network capacity than ever before. While scaling up the capacity of the network interface controllers (NICs) is inarguably important, we focus on the alternative and explore how to scale out the network capacity by aggregating multiple NICs. In this paper, we discuss the various requirements and problems of...

RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet network interface card (NIC). It was created as an open platform for public use and is freely available for research and education. It can be used to prototype new network server architectures, and has proved invaluable in recent research efforts. Using a commercial development board saved significant time and expense compared with c...

ARKTOS (Advanced Reasoning Using Knowledge for Typing of Sea Ice) is a fully automated intelligent sea ice classification system. ARKTOS is in use at the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC) for daily operations related to the NIC’S task of mapping the ice covered oceans. ARKTOS incorporates image processing, input from ancillary data, and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and classify RADARSAT...

The title compound, [Zn(C(2)H(8)NO(6)P(2))(2)(H(2)O)(4)]·4H(2)O, was synthesized by the reaction of ZnCl(2) with 1-amino-ethane-1,1-diyldiphospho-nic acid in aqueous solution. The asymmetric unit contains one-half of the complex and two water mol-ecules of solvation. The Zn atom occupies a special position on an inversion centre. This results in a slightly distorted octa-hedral coordination env...