Pricing-based Active Queue Management (AQM), such as Random Exponential Marking (REM), outperforms other probabilistic counterpart techniques, like Random Early Detection (RED), in terms of both high utilization and negligible loss and delay. However, the pricing-based protocols do not take account of unresponsive flows that can significantly alter the subsequent rate allocation. This letter pr...

BACKGROUND Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized not only by disordered eating, but also by other psychopathology. In this exploratory study, we examined the ability of women with different diagnoses of EDs, their unaffected sisters, and healthy unrelated controls to recognize their own and other's emotions. We also looked at interhemispheric integration of emotion recognition and its relati...

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of integrated process networks featuring large recycle streams and small purge streams. We consider a prototype network comprising of a reactor and a condenser, and, within the framework of singular perturbations, we establish that the dynamics of such a network exhibits three time scales. We describe a model reduction procedure which leads to an explicit ...

A mixed cocktail of four strains of Listeria monocytogenes was resuspended in product purge and added to a variety of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products, including turkey, ham, and roast beef. All products were vacuum sealed in shrink-wrap packaging bags, massaged to ensure inoculum distribution, and processed by submersion heating in a precision-controlled steam-injected water bath. Products wer...

Water-holding capacity of fresh meat (ability to retain inherent water) is an important property of fresh meat as it affects both the yield and the quality of the end product. This characteristic can be described in several ways, but in fresh products that have not been extensively processed, it is often described as drip loss or purge. The mechanism by which drip or purge is lost from meat is ...

In the paradigm social choice problem, there is a fixed set of alternatives and a fixed set of voters. This paper considers variations of the electorate, when some subset of voters has a special voice on some subset of alternatives. Such a situation is formalized by means of the veto function. We focus on stable veto functions, and exhibit a liberal social choice function and a promotion mechan...

Abstract The coupling of computational thermodynamics and kinetics has been the central research theme in Integrated Computational Material Engineering (ICME). Two major bottlenecks implementing this performing efficient ICME-guided high-throughput multi-component industrial alloys discovery or process parameters optimization, are slow responses kinetic calculations to a given set compositions ...

We demonstrate the simultaneous manipulation of electrical and thermal transport characteristics ZnO thin films fabricated via prototype atomic layer deposition (ALD) process from diethyl zinc (DEZ) water precursors. The key ALD parameter is length N2 purge applied after DEZ precursor pulse. characterize with x-ray reflectivity measurements for film growth characteristics, photoluminescence spe...