UNLABELLED I describe a simple standalone program that assists in the preparation of peptide digestion maps. These are useful for comparative studies and for locating peptides within a primary sequence. The program creates an output file as scalable vector graphics that can then be viewed in a web browser or imported into a graphics-editing program. AVAILABILITY The program, as a standalone e...

The current implementation of the SVG library in iTasks (Graphics.Scalable) is inefficient, since every time the image changes, the whole image is recalculated using JavaScript on the (sometimes lightweight) clients. More elegant would be sending a delta to the client, that can easily be applied to the image, such that the server does the calculating in the much faster language Clean. Furthermo...

The static VAR generator (SVG) is an important device in flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) for the development of smart grids. Based on the basis principle of SVG and instantaneous reactive power theory, the conventional ip–iq and dq methods have a certain error when the three phase voltages are unbalanced. In this paper, the current detection algorithm is improved in cases of three-phas...

The present paper examines the elicited production of definite determiners, pronominal and reflexive clitics in a group of Italian children diagnosed for Selective Language Impairment. The present results argue against the Surface Hypothesis (Leonard, 1998; Leonard, 1989): Italian singular definite determiners and object pronominal clitics are phonologically identical, they are brief and non sa...

We present a technology based on Nb/NbxSi1−x/Nb junctions, with barriers near the metal-insulator transition, for applications in superconducting electronics (SCE) as an alternative to Nb/AlOx/Nb tunnel junctions. Josephson junctions with co-sputtered amorphous Nb-Si barriers can be made with a wide variety of electrical properties: critical current density (Jc), capacitance (C), and normal res...

Over the last few years Grid computing has evolved into an innovating technology and gotten increased commercial adoption. However, existing Grids do not have enough users as for sustainable development in the long term. This paper proposes several suggestions to this problem on the basis of long-term experience and careful analysis. The Scientific Computing Environment (SCE) in the Chinese Aca...

Children with SLI show a variety of language difficulties, but it is generally agreed that their syntax/grammar is more affected than other language components. More specifically, research on their language production shows marked delays in their acquisition of grammatical morphemes, especially those associated with the verbal system, while the nominal system is mostly intact (Rice and Oetting,...

This paper describes the concept of improving operation of a distribution circuit of the future through installment of interoperable devices, including distributed energy resources (DER) that are controlled using a multi-agent system approach. This concept for improving distribution service is being considered by SCE’s DER Program, with additional assistance from West Virginia University in the...

Scalable TCP [2] is a proposition for a new TCP where both the increase and the decrease rate of the window size are multiplicative. It has been recently proposed in order to improve performance in high speed networks. In this paper, we present a mathematical analysis of such multiplicative increase multiplicative decrease protocols in the presence of random losses. These are typical to wireles...