In recent years there has been widespread growth in the independent development of Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBASs). The Federal Aviation Administration’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) will be the first of multiple systems to become operational in the near future. Of current interest is interoperability of these physically separate, independent SBASs. In particular, designers...

In an effort to delineate how specific molecular interactions of dopamine receptor ligand classes vary between D2-like dopamine receptor subtypes, a conserved threonine in transmembrane (TM) helix 7 (Thr7.39), implicated as a key ligand interaction site with biogenic amine G protein-coupled receptors, was substituted with alanine in D2 and D4 receptors. Interrogation of different ligand chemoty...

Likewise other Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS), EGNOS– the European SBAS – will broadcast augmentation signals for GPS through Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites. GEO broadcasting is proved to be an efficient strategy for avionic applications and other modes of transport. For some applications, though, it may be of interest to complement GEO broadcasting through other transm...

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) can be delivered inefficiently using the movable jaws of a linac. The efficiency can be much improved by delivering IMRT with the movable jaws together with a relocatable mask below the jaws (Webb 2002 Phys. Med. Biol. 47 257-75). This paper extends the modelling work by showing that a much simpler relocatable mask than previously conceptualized can ...

We show that spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry is a valuable tool for surface deformation monitoring. By applying the Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) technique to an ERS data set covering Oslo (Norway), we show that the Bjørvika area has been subsiding more than 5 mm/year in the time period of 1992–2000. We review the SBAS algorithm, a new differential SAR interferometry app...

Requirements of software systems tend to change over time. The speed of this tendency depends on the application domain the software system under consideration belongs to. If we consider novel contexts such as pervasive systems and systems supporting dynamic B2B interaction, requirements change so fast that the research community is studying how to build systems that are able to self-adapt on t...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.02.013 0002-9610/© 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Society of Black Academic Surgeons' members and guest, it has been a personal honor and a privilege to serve as the 21st president for The Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS). I became a member of SBAS in 1997 and never dreamed of becoming its president; as my name joins the pantheon of ext...

In the InSAR solution, uneven distribution of permanent scatterer candidates (PSCs) or slowly decoherent filtering phase (SDFP) pixel density in a region variable radar reflection feature can cause local low accuracy single interferometry. PSCs with higher-order coherence Permanent Scatter (PS-InSAR) are generally distributed those point targets urban built-up areas, and SDFP pixels Small Basel...