Agriculture accounts for ~90% of India's fresh water use, and there are concerns that future food production will be threatened by insufficient water supply of adequate quality. This study aimed to quantify the water required in the production of diets in India using the water footprint (WF) assessment method. The socio-demographic associations of dietary WFs were explored using mixed effects r...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the weight-for-stature (WFS) and BMI methods are not equivalent in determining expected body weight (EBW) in adolescents with eating disorders and to determine the sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value of each method to detect those <75% EBW. We hypothesized that differences in EBW would be greatest at the extremes of height. METHODS EBW...

Wave-Field Synthesis (WFS) has become one of the most promising spatial sound reproduction systems. The most basic difference of WFS in comparison to other available systems is that the acoustic field is accurately synthesized using loudspeaker arrays in a broad area, suppressing the sweet spot that characterizes conventional surround systems and giving an accurate and deep immersion for all th...

The serum proteinograms of 10 female Holstein calves fed milk either through conventional (COV) or step-down (STP) milk feeding methods at different ages were evaluated. Calves fed using the COV method were fed colostrum during the first 24 hours that they stayed with their respective mothers and received transition milk for another 2 days and later, and then milk at four liters/day for 59 days...

We present a compact optical design for a multireference Shack-Hartmann-based wavefront sensor (WFS) for multiconjugate adaptive optical systems. The key component of this WFS design is a field lenslet array that separates the exit pupil images in the sensing plane for all reference sources. An analytical method for WFS optical design is presented, and the optimal strategy for selecting optical...

We propose a new type of wave-front sensor (WFS) derived from the pyramid WFS (PWFS). This new WFS, called the flattened pyramid-WFS (FPWFS), has a reduced pyramid angle in order to optically overlap the four pupil images into an unique intensity. This map is then used to derive the phase information. In this Letter, this new WFS is compared to three existing WFSs, namely the PWFS, the modulate...

Wave field synthesis (WFS) and higher-order Ambisonics (HOA) are two sound reproduction techniques that facilitate a high number of reproduction channels to overcome the sweet-spot limitation known from conventional stereophonic reproduction techniques. HOA is based on a representation of the reproduced wave field in terms of spatial harmonics, WFS is based on the KirchhoffHelmholtz integral. I...

BACKGROUND Wolfram syndrome (WFS) is a recessive neurologic and endocrinologic degenerative disorder, and is also known as DIDMOAD (Diabetes Insipidus, early-onset Diabetes Mellitus, progressive Optic Atrophy and Deafness) syndrome. Most affected individuals carry recessive mutations in the Wolfram syndrome 1 gene (WFS1). However, the phenotypic pleiomorphism, rarity and molecular complexity of...

WFS and STABLE are the two most well known non monotonic semantics for logic programming. We introduce WFS ext1 and WFS ext2 , which are non monotonic semantics for function free normal programs. The suitable properties of these semantics are that they extend WFS by allowing a weak form of reasoning by cases, are rational and also polynomial-time computable. We also introduce C-WE , an extensio...

WFS is a new Linux filesystem which provides a filesystem like interface for the World Wide Web. It was developed as a kernel module for the Linux Kernel 2.2.1, and utilizes a user level process (web daemon) to service HTTP document fetch requests. The filesystem provides for caching of remote documents and can process multiple outstanding requests concurrently. As remote documents are fetched,...