Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) provide a good combination of both strength and formability and are therefore applied extensively in the automotive industry, especially in the crash relevant parts of the vehicle. Dual-phase (DP) steel is an example for such AHSS which is widely employed. The excellent macroscopic behavior of this steel is a result of the inherent micro-heterogeneity and co...

BACKGROUND Nicotine use amongst athletes is high and increasing, especially team sports, yet the limited previous studies investigating the performance consequences of this behaviour have not examined the effects of the principal active ingredient, nicotine, per se. Therefore, we determined whether nicotine gum affected muscular and anaerobic performance. METHODS Nine active males (24 ± 3 yea...

Objective : to study the association between the histological grading of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN I, CIN II and CIN III) and the immunohistochemical expression for p16ink4a, hTert and Ki67, as well as to evaluate the relationship of these markers with the risk of recurrence after surgical treatment. Methods : we studied a historical cohort of 94 women with intraepithelial l...

RATIONALE Nicotine enhancement of reward has been implicated as an important contributor to tobacco addiction. Despite the attention that reward enhancement has received, the behavioral mechanisms whereby nicotine enhances operant responding remain largely unknown. The present study sought to extend previous work by evaluating the effects of nicotine on responding for two qualitatively differen...

This document describes a new networking subsystem architecture built around a packet classifier executing in the Network Interface Card (NIC). By classifying packets in the NIC, we believe that performance, scalability, and robustness can be significantly improved on shared-memory multiprocessor Internet servers. In order to demonstrate the feasibility and the benefits of the approach, we deve...

Freuder and Elfe [1996] introduced Neighborhood Inverse Consistency (NIC) as a new local consistency property for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) that filters the domains of variables. Two advantages of the algorithm for enforcing NIC is that it automatically adapts its filtering power to the local connectivity of the network and has insignificant space overhead. In this document, we di...

In this study, we attempted to prepare carbamazepine (CBZ) cocrystal through the solution method in ethanol-water solvent mixture (volume ratio 1:1) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) solution. Nicotinamide (NIC) and saccharin (SAC) were selected as cocrystal coformers. Cocrystal screening products were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Differential Scanning Calorime...

The activity of vertical burst neurons (BNs) was recorded in the rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus (riMLF-BNs) and in the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (NIC-BNs) in head-restrained cats while performing saccades or smooth pursuit. BNs emitted a high-frequency burst of action potentials before and during vertical saccades. On average, these bursts led saccade ons...

We explore the possibility of exploiting the computing power of chip-multiprocessor-based network interface controllers and switches in a system area network environment. We use stream processing applications as case studies to show that combining the compute-power of the host processor and a CMP-based NIC with 4 CPU cores can achieve speedup up to 1.30 even with the NIC running at one tenth th...