The history of heroin smoking and the subsequent development and spread of 'chasing the dragon' are examined. The first heroin smoking originated in Shanghai in the 1920s and involved use of porcelain bowls and bamboo tubes, thereafter spreading across much of Eastern Asia and to the United States over the next decade. 'Chasing the dragon' was a later refinement of this form of heroin smoking, ...

In this paper we study the correlation between wirelength and routability for standard-cell placement problem, under the modern place-androute environment. We present a placement tool named Dragon (version 2.1), and show its ability to produce good quality placement for designs with high row utilization. Compared to an industrial placer and an academic state-of-the-art placer, Dragon can produc...

Video Surveillance as a Service provides service to users using Cloud technology. The DRAGON-Lab supports an opportunity for researchers to use Cloud technology on an open platform, but the services utilize schemes have not been defined. This paper proposed two VSaaS working models, market model and tender/contract model. A comparision testing are given and proven the proposed models are applic...

We give the first published description of the pathology and molecular findings associated with adenovirus infection in lizards in Australia. A central netted dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis) exhibited severe necrotising hepatitis with abundant intranuclear inclusion bodies within hepatocytes and rarely within intestinal epithelial cells. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using pooled tissues yielde...

We show that overloading is NP-complete. This solves exercise 6.25 in the 1986 version of the Dragon book.

the form of dragon has been appeared during the history of iran art in different formats whit mysterious contents. in fact, it is the only mythical character that is in collection with the rest ancient earthly animals. dragon with its scaly serpent, like body, is also one of the twelve zodiac signs in the world. in most of the old pictures, figures or written texts, they are explained with a bo...

Lévy’s dragon curve [P. Lévy, Les courbes planes ou gauches et les surfaces composées de parties semblables au tout, J. Ecole Polytechn., 227-247, 249-291 (1938)] is a well-known self-similar planar curve with non-empty interior. We derive an arithmetic expression for the coordinate functions of Lévy’s dragon curve, and show that the 3 2 -dimensional Hausdorff measure of the graph of each coord...

In this paper, we detail the implementation of a self-organized GMPLS network using the DRAGON software suite to introduce service awareness in a GMPLS network. DRAGON daemon has been extended to support anycast routing to allow forwarding user (service) requests to the most suitable servers based on their advertised service attributes. Furthermore, OSPF daemon has been also extended to allow f...