-Questionnaire data obtained from 1,631 tenth quent smoking. That both cigarettes and SLT are tobacco grade students in 14 school districts in the State of Washington products and contain absorbable nicotine indicates strongly are used in this investigation ofthe relationship between the onset that an associated nicotine dependence may result in indiprocesses for smokeless tobacco use and smoki...

Landing gear is one of the critical subsystems of an aircraft. The need to design landing gear with minimum weight, minimum volume, high performance, improved life, and reduced life cycle cost have posed many challenges to landing gear designers and practitioners. Further, it is essential to reduce the landing gear design and development cycle time while meeting all the regulatory and safety re...

A uniform, exible approach is proposed for analysing the feasibility of deadline scheduled real-time systems. In its most general formulation, the analysis assumes sporadically periodic tasks with arbitrary deadlines, release jitter, and shared resources. System overheads of a tick driven scheduler implementation, and scheduling of soft aperiodic tasks are also accounted for. A procedure for th...

Trees are a ubiquitous data structure in computer science. LISP, for instance, was designed to manipulate nested lists, that is, ordered unranked trees. Already at that time, DAGs were used to detect common subexpression, a process known as “hash consing.” In a DAG every distinct subtree is represented only once (but can be referenced many times) and hence it constitutes a dictionary-based comp...

ADVANCES IN ORGAN PRESERVATION, surgical techniques, immunosuppression, and antibiotic therapy now make single-lung transplantation (SLT) a viable and worthwhile therapeutic option. Adult SLT recipients are principally associated with diagnoses of advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/ emphysema (48%) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (31%) (3). Following SLT both health-related qualit...

The main aim of this paper is to investigate automatic quality assessment for spoken language translation (SLT). More precisely, we investigate SLT errors that can be due to transcription (ASR) or to translation (MT) modules. This paper investigates automatic detection of SLT errors using a single classifier based on joint ASR and MT features. We evaluate both 2-class (good/bad) and 3-class (go...

Criteria for the design of an acoustic pulse reflectometer specifically intended for musical instrument research are discussed. Different types of pulse source are considered, and various approaches to the signal processing of the reflected pulse are evaluated., Finally, the practical utility of the technique for instrument designers and manufacturers is discussed.

Advanced lung disease (ALD) that requires lung transplantation (LTX) is frequently associated with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Whether the presence of PH significantly affects the outcomes following single-lung transplantation (SLT) remains controversial. Therefore, we retrospectively examined the outcomes of 279 consecutive SLT recipients transplanted at our centre, and the patients were spli...