H aving firmly grasped the torch that Mahadev Satyanarayanan handed to me, I feel like the second runner in a relay, sprinting to make as much progress as I can during my allotted time. Satya founded IEEE Pervasive Computing, which, in the last four years, has published a rich legacy of peer-reviewed work and earned a venerable reputation. I will do my best to maintain this reputation and, wher...

A series of detailed calculations have been carried out using a stagnation flow model to examine the dependence of diamond growth rate on hydrocarbon injector location in dc arcjet reactors. It is predicted that, for methane feed, growth rate can be increased by as much as 75% by relocating the injector from a position near the plasma torch exit to one near the diamond surface, but outside the ...

TORCH, includes Toxoplasmosis, Other (syphilis, varicella-zoster, parvovirus B19, Hepatitis B), Rubella, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), and Herpes infections are some of the most common infections associated with congenital anomalies. Most of the TORCH infections have serious fetal consequences and there has no impact on fetal outcome. In the present article, we wanted to discuss about the causative ag...