The Illinois River is one of the major tributaries of the Mississippi River in the central United States with a drainage area of 75,156 square kilometers. The Illinois River connects the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River through the Illinois Waterway that consists of eight lock and dams along the Illinois River and its tributaries. Because of its central location in the state and being the...

We report on recent work on the crucial role of vortices characterized by Z(N) flux for maintaining confinement at weak coupling in SU(N) gauge theory. The present work is a continuation of our on-going project over the last several years [1]. We begin by distinguishing between various types of vortices. Recall that in the continuum formulation there is no local distinction between pure SU(N) a...

Requiring that supersymmetric SU(5) and SU(6) grand unifications in the heterotic string theory must have 3 chiral families, adjoint (or higher representation) Higgs fields in the grand unified gauge group, and a non-abelian hidden sector, we construct such string models within the framework of conformal field theory and asymmetric orbifolds. Within this framework, we construct all such string ...

The Drosophila Suppressor of Hairy-wing [Su(Hw)] protein is a globally expressed, multi-zinc finger (ZnF) DNA-binding protein. Su(Hw) forms a classic insulator when bound to the gypsy retrotransposon and is essential for female germline development. These functions are genetically separable, as exemplified by Su(Hw)(f) that carries a defective ZnF10, causing a loss of insulator but not germline...

A set of Grand Unified Theories based upon the gauge groups SU(5)L × SU(5)R, SO(10)L×SO(10)R and SU(4)C×SU(4)L×SU(4)R is explored. Several novel features distinguish these theories from the well-known SU(5), SO(10) and SU(4)C×SU(2)L×SU(2)R models which they generalize. Firstly, Standard Model quarks and leptons are accompanied by and mix with heavy SU(2)L × SU(2)R singlet partners. The resultin...

Cognitive radio (Mitola III, 2000) also known as opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) has emerged as a promising solution to increase the spectrum efficiency Haykin (2005). In OSA, the SU finds spectrum holes (white space) by sensing the radio frequency spectrum. The presence of spectrum holes in the PU channels are highlighted in Fig. 1. These spectrum holes are used by the SU for its transmiss...

Adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, N = 179) from six Fraser River populations (British Columbia) were intercepted in continental shelf waters »215 km from the Fraser River mouth, gastrically implanted with acoustic transmitters, non-lethally biopsied for blood biochemistry, gill Na,K-ATPase activity and somatic energy density and then released. Migration behaviour and travel times to the...

In developing countries, large dam projects continue to be launched, primarily to secure a time-stable fresh-water supply and to generate hydropower. Meanwhile, calls for environmentally sustainable development put pressure on the dam-building industry to integrate ecological concerns in project planning and decision-making. Such integration requires environmental impact statements (EISs) that ...

The Drosophila Su(Hw) protein is a multi-zinc finger DNA binding factor required for the gypsy insulator function. At the gypsy element, Su(Hw) recruits partners Centrosomal Protein of 190 kD (CP190) and Modifier of mdg4 67.2 kD isoform (Mod67.2), which are required for the enhancer blocking and barrier functions of the insulator. Our genome-wide studies have identified thousands of endogenous ...