We present results from detailed computations focused on chemical mixing in convective regions of very low mass stars (VLMs) and brown dwarfs (BDs) during deuterium burning. Computations are made both in the instantaneous and in the coupled–diffusive mixing schemes to check which mixing is required to treat these phases. The convective timescale is much shorter than the nuclear time scales for ...

In this work we propose a lightweight scheme for negotiating client’s capabilities in the context of end-end content adaptation for wireless web access. Our method is much less complex then W3C’s proposed CC/PP framework. We suggest that for the purposes of content negotiation all (mobile) clients could be grouped into a few relatively large categories. With this assumption we simplify the CC/P...

The focus of this paper is on the development of a novel cross correlation technique for shape matching between two similar objects. The shape profile is derived from the curvature of the object profile. The cross correlation technique is applied to the shape profile of the two image objects to evaluate their similarity. An application of the shape profile technique is presented in the context ...

Measurement invariance is a prerequisite for confident cross-cultural comparisons of personality profiles. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to detect differential item functioning (DIF) in factor loadings and intercepts for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (P. T. Costa, Jr., & R. R. McCrae, 1992) in comparisons of college students in the United States (N = 261), Philippines...

the genetics and mechanism of malathion resistance in the adults of an. stephensi (ban-s), was studied. nine successive generations of malathion selection in the adults resulted in an increase in ltso of about 3-fold. the crossing experiments indicated that the resistance is inherited as partially dominant character with no indication of sex linkage. the results of back-crosses suggested that p...