repeatability, (the consistency with which a given trait is expressed) of aggressiveness against prey (attack latency) in gravid females of the predatory mite neoseiulus californicus (mcgregor) was examined. in two experiments, prey - conspecific individuals, the onion thrips thrips tabaci (lindeman), and the two-spotted spider mite tetranychus urticae koch- were repeatedly offered in various n...

General The conditions dealt with here are those where detection of women or couples at risk of having children with burdensome disorders with little or no curative treatment, is feasible. One objective of screening is avoidance of birth of affected individuals by identifying those at risk, prospectively. As important is the reassurance which can follow negative tests. Voluntary participation o...

This paper proposes a coexistence model for two independent companies both operating hydropower plants in the same river flow, based on a case study of the Cetina river basin in Croatia. Companies are participants of the day-ahead electricity market. The incumbent company owns the existing hydropower plants and holds concessions for the water. The new company decides to build a pump storage hyd...

Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) encoding is a computationally expensive operation. This paper outlines a method of compressing video streams from within a Resolution Independent Video Language (RIVL) using the MPEG standard of compression in parallel. Two processes, a client and a server, work in tandem to parallelize the MPEG encoding process. The client dispatches jobs to each of the avail...

In this project, a multiuser diversity scheme for MIMO-OFDM systems has been proposed to improve system performance. In the space-time MIMO-OFDM system with multiuser, it needs a scheduler at the base station to do the spatial multiplexing. The scheduler distributes sub-channels to different users based on the feedback channel state information (CSI). The goal is that each user determines a lim...

This report presents the creation and simulation of a model based on system dynamics, applied to a complex system, in this case a system of urban public transport for medium-sized cities, evaluating the service quality variables based on comfort and speed. Simulation was performed in four scenarios, in which the value of the variable “Time interval of dispatches” was modifi ed, as it correspond...

In [1] we proposed a balanced Multiple Description Coding (MDC) scheme based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). This MDC includes an efficient bit allocation procedure that dispatches the source image redundancy between different channels. The amount of redundancy is controlled according to the Bit Error Rate of the different channels. Here, we propose to extend this approach for low bit ...

We investigate an electronic marketplace driven by suppliers that survey customer responses, determine market values of products, and sell products. A supplier creates and dispatches a mobile agent to potential buyers. The mobile agent carries with it information about the available stock and the residual price of the product. The objective is to maximize the gross returns to the supplier. The ...