Pocket switched networks (PSNs) take advantage of human mobility to distribute data. Investigations on real-world trace data indicate that human mobility follows a simple reproducible pattern: a human being usually visits a few places at high frequencies. These most frequently visited places form the home of a node, which is exploited in this paper to design two HomE based ROuting (HERO) algori...

Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow (HeRO) grafts (Merit Medical Systems, Inc, South Jordan, Utah) provide a means for access in catheter-dependent hemodialysis patients but typically require several weeks for tissue incorporation. Modifying the HeRO graft with an ACUSEAL graft (W. L. Gore & Associates, Newark, Del) can allow immediate cannulation, thus reducing catheter dependence time and its assoc...

To satisfy patients, fulfill demands of surgeons and operation theater staff and to proof a well-functioning operation theater an excellent management is needed. Operation theatre needs a great quantity of resources 4 to maintain a working function in any hospital . It’s always been a difficult and daring procedure, to improve the function and effectiveness of an operation theater in such a hos...

Intelligent behavior of a system is often equated with its ability to perform logical or heuristic inferences. Intelligence is thought to reside in the ability to reene the knowledge base, and thus in the articulation of \new" facts beyond the set of assertions explicitly represented. The fragility and complexity of the inference mechanisms required for this invite attempts at imbuing other com...

The existence of multiple decision-makers and goals, spatial and non-linear forest management objectives and the combinatorial nature of forest planning problems are reasons that support the use of heuristic optimisation algorithms in forest planning instead of the more traditional LP methods. A heuristic is a search algorithm that does not necessarily find the global optimum but it can produce...

AIM To compare the shaping ability of progressive versus constant taper shaft instruments in curved root canals of extracted human teeth. METHODOLOGY A total of 40 root canals of mandibular molars with curvatures ranging between 20 degrees and 40 degrees were divided into two groups of 20 canals each and embedded in a muffle system. The root canals sectioned horizontally at three levels befor...

in cultural semiotics as posed by tartu-moscow circle the concepts of cultural sphere, border, and the (non)cultural other and the dialogue between this cultural self and that other on the borders are very critical. the mechanism of intercultural translation and the processes of inclusion and exclusion govern this intercultural dialogue. such communication between cultures, in order to be reali...

The Truman Show, as a 1998 film, set touchstone in the world of cinema by telling desperate situation an individual who was lost reality built media and his realization this, which led him to try push boundaries fiction. Nowadays, narratives are challenging ways limits producing alternative instead seeking questioning itself. Making preferred more real desired new such virtual-hyper-simulation-...

The Theater of the Absurd is a new form of drama after The Second World War. Playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd reveal the conditions of human beings’ existence in modern society. This paper analyzes the artistic features and themes of the Theater of the Absurd.