“What do you think of ‘our turban-heads’ (women de chantou)?” the taxi driver wondered, nodding out window at a Uyghur pedestrian. I stared him blankly. Not waiting for my response, he continued, wanting to get thoughts on how United States's war in Iraq was going. He had heard that it going affect oil prices. It 2010, and President Barack Obama just been elected, so mumbled something about new...

In this paper, we analyze complemented group Cellular Automata (CA) derived from Linear Hybrid Group CA with rules 60, 102 and 204. We analyze some properties of the CA. And we give rule vectors which determine the state transition of the CA dividing the entire state space into smaller spaces of equal lengths, and find conditions for the complement vectors corresponding to the rule vectors. And...

This paper presents a novel multi-Gb/s multi-mode LDPC decoder architecture and efficient design techniques for gigabit wireless communications. An efficient dynamic and fixed column-shifting scheme is presented for multi-mode architectures. A novel low-complexity local switch is proposed to implement the dynamic and fixed column-shifting scheme. Furthermore, an efficient quantization method an...

TOPIC: Cultural Diversity TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Turban Pin Inhalation Syndrome (TPIS) is mainly reported in countries the Middle East with increased prevalence younger females [1]. Incidences can be found diverse cultural populations such as intercity areas like New York City. CASE PRESENTATION: A 38 year old woman no past medical history presents to emergenc...

An agar-degrading bacterium was isolated from the guts of spiny turban shells. It was identified as a Pseudoalteromonas species and named Pseudoalteromonas sp. JYBCL 1. The viscosity of the inoculated agar medium decreased by more than 60% after 20 h cultivation. The agarase produced by the isolate had optimal activities at 35 degrees C and pH 7. The enzyme had extremely strong resistance to io...

Accurate goodness-of-fit tests for the extreme tails of empirical distributions is a very important issue, relevant in many contexts, including geophysics, insurance, and finance. We have derived exact asymptotic results for a generalization of the large-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, well suited to testing these extreme tails. In passing, we have rederived and made more precise the approximat...