We report a facile route to selectively deposit and arrange palladium (Pd) nanoparticles on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) having sub 10 nm diameter by using supramolecular self-assembly of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as a soft template.

A four-item questionnaire asked active U.S. members of the Child Neurology Society to value painless antiepileptic drug concentration monitoring, whether members had ordered a saliva level (the best established painless method) in the last year, and whether such levels were available. Value was quantified by time per patient that the physician would willingly expend to arrange for the test. Of ...

More Frequent Tests W i l l Be Used Instead Of 2 Hour Exams Wil l i perhaps one or two exceptions, there will he no long filial examinations this summer session, according to an announcement of Dr. M. (.. Nelson, director. I he general policy regarding examination this summer will he that I the instructors wil l give at least three full-period examinations during the course of the Slimmer sessi...

This paper presents a novel method to arrange wakeup schedule for sleeping stations such that the number of wakeup stations in each beacon interval is balanced in IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs). This method reduces the probability of collision and thus the station can save more power. Next, we consider how to poll the wakeup stations to send the PS-Poll frame to get back their...

In conversation speakers design their utterances to be understood against the common ground they share with their addressees-their common experience, expertise, dialect, and culture. That ordinarily gives addressees an advantage over overhearers in understanding. Addressees have an additional advantage, we propose, because they can actively collaborate with speakers in reaching the mutual belie...

Consider the following method of card shuffling. Start with a deck of N cards numbered 1 through N. Fix a parameter p between 0 and 1. In this model a " shuffle " consists of uniformly selecting a pair of adjacent cards and then flipping a coin that is heads with probability p. If the coin comes up heads then we arrange the two cards so that the lower numbered card comes before the higher numbe...

This paper presents an optimal formulation for sequencing a set of robotic tasks. Tasks description and execution are based on the task formalism. A naive solution would be to arrange the execution of the tasks sequentially (potential redundancy not exploited, not optimal), or to set manually the timing and the behavior for each task (burdensome for the user, lack of autonomy, not optimal), or ...

Production efficiency of a sewing machine process has a direct influence on production efficiency of a related shoe factory. Because there are many upper-making processes with complicated techniques, it is essential to arrange and optimize the upper-making process. Through the research on both action and time of these processes, this paper shows examples that illustrate how to analyze the techn...