ABSTRACT For many years there have been lots of Oil Spill Response Organizations (OSROs) worldwide. Their organization, concept operations and skills to a large extend tailored their specific areas operations, members demand the OSROs own practice experience. Collaboration between has somewhat limited. During last decade, post-Macondo follow up showed – strengthened necessity tiered preparednes...

variability of relative blood volume during haemodialysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2001; 16: 431–432 2. Boer W, Clauss M, Cremaschi L et al. Less intradialytic complications with blood volume control. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2002; 17 [Suppl 1]: 127 3. Kleinoeder T, Cremaschi L, Hickstein H et al. Less complications during hemodialysis by automatic blood volume controlled ultrafiltration. Nephro...

Killer applications, such as Excel and other ones, may be retrospectively considered as potential excellent Learning Environments in different specific domains and also in meta-cognitive skills even if there was no learning intention neither in the designer nor in the user. We present here a patented methodology for knowledge acquisition and construction widely and successfully used for five ye...

A set of experiments on widely different web sites examined the technical accuracy and practicalities of different approaches to using an emulated dial-up link instead of true 56kbps (V.90) dial-up to measure end-user web site experience. The experiments showed that attempts to emulate V.90 dial-up connections by using simple calculations, bandwidth-restricted routers, or sophisticated network ...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED In a period of less than 5 years, the ability to access information using dial-up telephone lines and modems has grown to an extraordinary level. What began as restricted access to a single computer system has grown into the ability to explore millions of computers. With the ease of access has come the ongoing dilemma of how to maintain ease of access for those who have it and...

We carry out attacks using Internet platforms that aim on keeping telephone devices busy, denying users any access. We refer to this behavior using the term DIAL (Digital Initiated Abuse of teLephones), or, in the simple form, Dial attack. We develop an intuitive simulation environment for modeling a Dial attack in order to identify its critical characteristics. Based on the simulation’s result...

BACKGROUND Self-reported body weight is often used for calculation of Body Mass Index because it is easy to collect. Little is known about sources of error introduced by using bathroom scales to measure weight at home. The objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and consistency of digital versus dial-type bathroom scales commonly used for self-reported weight. METHODS Participant...

DIAL (dihedral alignment) is a web server that provides public access to a new dynamic programming algorithm for pairwise 3D structural alignment of RNA. DIAL achieves quadratic time by performing an alignment that accounts for (i) pseudo-dihedral and/or dihedral angle similarity, (ii) nucleotide sequence similarity and (iii) nucleotide base-pairing

Natural gas processing is a major industry in Alberta, Canada, and a significant source of fugitive emissions of both methane and volatile organic hydrocarbon (VOCs). This project investigated fugitive emissions at natural gas processing plants in Alberta using two complementary optical measurement methods. At five gas plants, the fugitive emissions of methane and hydrocarbons ethane and larger...