The quality of the power supplied t o sensitive electronic equipment is a n important issue. Quantifytng this quality, however, is difficult under the present s ta te o f nonexistent or uncoordinated standards concerning two related questions: ( I ) what levels of power quali ty a r c r equ i red for what types of loads, and (2) what measurement techniques a r e required to determine reliably t...

The most commonly considered types of disorder in a crystal containing long-&& molecules are those in which the individual chain molecules are either rotated about their long axes or else translated along the fibre axis. However, since many fibrous polymers are helical in structure, we should also expect the possibility of screw disorder; that is, a combination of the above two types. A disorde...

HST observations have contributed significantly to our knowledge on the behaviour of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) as optical emitters. First, HST has been instrumental both to discover new optical counterparts (PSR B1055-52, PSR B1929+10, PSR B0950+08) and to confirm proposed identifications (PSR B0656+14). Second, HST multicolor photometry provided useful information to characterize the optic...

In dynamic stochastic environments, dynamic decision-making is necessary for effi-ciency. We consider multi-agent projects where each agent has hidden abilities, actionsand chance events. Here, efficient dynamic decision-making means that all agents shouldtruthfully reveal their private information, and they should make all their hidden actionsaccording to the efficient dynamic ...

Video on Demand applications emerge on campus wide networks Compressed video streams pass switches which do not have any bandwidth reservation mech anism nor any other mechanism against congestion The switches shared among video servers WWW servers and clients get easily congested in critical sit uations hence the switches drop packets and the qual ity of end to end delivery service degrades To...

The generalized second-pri ce (G SP) mech anism is th e mo st wid ely-used au ction format in sponsored search markets . However , figuring ou t how to bi d on GSP auctions presents major theoretical and computational challenges due to the complex nature of the auction format and the infinite nu mber o f equ ilibria. Ou r stud y cha racterizes vario us eq uilibrium bidding behaviors in GSP auct...

We have analyzed the molecular features of a t(ll;14)(q23;q32) chro mosome translocation of a cell line established from a B-cell lymphoma. Somatic hybrid cells carrying the llq— and/or 14q+ chromosome(s) were produced in order to map the breakpoints. Southern blot analyses of DNAs from these hybrid cell lines together with various probes from the IGH locus on chromosome 14 and the ETS-l and ...

The four-fermi model with continuous chiral symmetry is studied in three di-mensions at non-zero chemical potential μ using both the 1/Nf expansion andcomputer simulations. For strong coupling this model spontaneously breaksits U(1) chiral symmetry at zero chemical potential and the Goldstone mech-anism is realized through massless pions. The computer simulation predicts acr...

s of wireless microsensors for monitoring vironments have emerged as an important new area for wireless technology. Key attributes of types of networked systems are the severely computational and energy resources, and an rational environment. This paper is a study of nication security aspects of these networks. imitations and specific architecture of sensor all for customized security mechanism...

This paper presents a cursive handwritten address recognition system which con sists of four main modules i over segmentor ii dynamic zip locator iii zip can didates generator and iv city state zip veri er The dynamic zip locator and city state zip veri er are based on a exible matcher for matching a sequence of graphemes with a list of generalized strings The dynamic zip locator is able to loc...