Theory relating species richness to ecosystem variability typically ignores the potential for environmental variability to promote species coexistence. Failure to account for fluctuation-dependent coexistence may explain deviations from the expected negative diversity-ecosystem variability relationship, and limits our ability to predict the consequences of increases in environmental variability...

The timeliness and synchronization requirements of multimedia data demand e&ient buffer management and disk access schemes for multimedia database systems. The data rates involved are very high and despite the developmenl of eficient storage and retrieval strategies, disk I/O is a potential bottleneck, which limits the number of concurrent sessions supported by a system. This calls for more efi...

This study evaluated the preparation of Shewhart's control charts using the concept of rational subgroups for monitoring the Salmonella antibody ELISA used for surveillance of Danish pig herds. Control charts were prepared for a buffer control sample, a negative serum sample and a positive serum sample. The quality control variables were the natural logarithm (In) of the uncalibrated optical de...

A simple and rapid capillary electrophoresis (CE) with electrcochemical detection (ED) method has been established for the simultaneous determination of seven active ingredients in the stems and roots of Gaultheria leucocarpa var. yunnanensis and its medicinal preparation, including (+)-catechin, rutin, gentisic acid, vallinic acid, salicylic acid, quercetin, and protocatechuic acid. The effect...

Convolutional decoding using Fano algorithms is one of the most important techniques of channel coding used for error control. It is of interest since they have variable decoding time and are highly sensitive to the channel parameters such as an inaccurate estimate of channel SNR and an incomplete compensation of phase noise. The operation of Fano decoding in this paper is considered in TCP/IP-...

A miniaturized analytical system for separating and detecting toxic organophosphate nerve agent compounds, based on the coupling of a micromachined capillary electrophoresis chip with a thick-film amperometric detector, is described. Factors influencing the on-chip separation and detection processes have been optimized. Using a MES buffer (20 mM, pH 5.0) running buffer, a 72-mm-long separation ...

A simple and rapid capillary zone electrophoretic (CZE) method has been established for separation and quantification of a mixture of eight cephalosporins – cefadroxil (CFL), cefixime (CIX), cefuroxime sodium (CFR), ceftriaxone sodium (CTR), ceftizoxime (CFT), cefaclor (CFC), cefradine (CFD), and cefotoxime (CTA). Conditions affecting the separation were pH, buffer concentration, and applied po...