We have been favoured by the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, with the perusal of papers relating to a remedy which promises to rival Ipecacuanha in its power over acute dysentery. The credit of bringing this remedy to notice belongs to AssistantSurgeon Umrito Lall Deb, attached to the Howrah General Hospital. In December 1876 SurgeonMajor K. Bird, M. D., Civil Surgeon of Howrah, sub...

We introduce a new multiobjective evolutionary algorithm called PESA (the Pareto Envelope-based Selection Algorithm), in which selection and diversity maintenance are controlled via a simple hyper-grid based scheme. PESA's selection method is relatively unusual in comparison with current well known multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, which tend to use counts based on the degree to which sol...

Bioaccumulation of metal within an organism results from interactions between physiological factors (growth, weight loss, absorption and accumulation), chemical factors (metal concentration, speciation and bioavailability) and environmental factors (temperature and food concentration). To account for such interactions in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, we combined bioaccumulation and Dyna...

Simple stoichiometric models based on the principle that limiting elements are used with high efficiency have been unable to capture the apparently constant and low nitrogen gross growth efficiency that characterizes egg production in marine copepods. A new model of egg production is presented based on Dynamic Energy Budget theory. The model splits substrates between nitrogenous and non-nitroge...

Recent breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV have coincided both with a dramatic reduction in HIV mortality, and with a disturbing increase in HIV infection rates. These apparently contradictory trends may be causally related, if treatment improves the health and functional status of HIV+ individuals and allows them to engage in more sexual risk-taking. Using state-level health insurance as an ...

We used a multi-channel energy measurement device that was designed to measure the power consumption of mobile electronic health devices. We measured the power consumption of the devices’ sub circuits which were responsible for data storage and transmission. These were a microSD card, a GSM modem and a Bluetooth device. We took these three components because they are common in the electronic mo...

[1] The question of whether clouds are the cause of surface temperature changes, rather than acting as a feedback in response to those temperature changes, is explored using data obtained between 2000 and 2010. An energy budget calculation shows that the radiative impact of clouds accounts for little of the observed climate variations. It is also shown that observations of the lagged response o...

In most mobile video encoding systems, long battery life and high performance video encoding are competing design goals. This paper proposed a Macroblock (MB) level perceptual energy scalable video encoding method noted as PMP-ESVE, in which just noticeable distortion (JND) model is introduced as the perceptual cue. PMP-ESVE includes three parts, first, PMP-ESVE can dynamic adapt the variable e...

During the U. S. Civil War (1861-65) surgeons performed a vast number of surgical procedures. The efficacy of surgery has been continually debated since the war began, in part because of lack of evidence for the (in)effectiveness of surgery. I analyze data gathered by Dr. Edmund Andrews, a surgeon with the 1st Illinois Light Artillery. The data can be arranged as observational data on surgery a...

S. Karataglidis, K. Amos, B. A. Brown, and P. K. Deb Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321 ~Received 8 November 2001; published 12 Marc...