We present a droplet-based microfluidic platform for carrying out sequential and multiple reactions. Flexible droplet formation, multiple injections of additional droplets into pregenerated droplets, addressing of droplets into incubation chambers, and dosing of additional droplets to incubated droplets were achieved by the forward/reverse flow direction control and flow path control with pneum...

The J-Machine network is a 3-D mesh employing wormhole routing and virtual channels to provide two network priorities. Each network channel is 9 bits wide and operates at 32MHz. Each J-Machine node contains network routers that guide messages between the six bidirectional channels incident on each node, and a network interface that handles messages originating or terminating at the node. The ro...

This paper presents an attempt at a legal approach to addressing wrongful privatisations, avoiding reverse privatisation or even re-publitisation as answers to (unavoidable) negative discrepancies between public values and related public services. In no. 58 of the paper a short overview of the steps from the leading question to the concluding remarks is presented. This paper is still in the dra...

This article provides a brief overview of the global health-worker shortage, which could undermine the Millennium Development Goal to halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. The current situation suggests that long-term solutions to shortages can only be found by addressing the problem from a global perspective; that is, to eliminate shortages through substantial investments in traini...

The establishment of disassembly plants and the creation of product designs which specifically facilitate disassembly are enabling manufacturers to carry out item segregation. Item segregation is defined as the separation from an assembly of a part or a group of parts by following a reverse assembly process. Once segregated, the items can be reused, recycled or discarded. However, there are ope...

The establishment of disassembly plants and the creation of product designs which specifically facilitate disassembly are enabling manufacturers to carry out item segregation. Item segregation is defined as the separation from an assembly of a part or a group of parts by following a reverse assembly process. Once segregated, the items can be reused, recycled or discarded. However, there are ope...

This paper discusses the application of the plantwide control design procedure of Skogestad [Skogestad, S. (2004a). Control structure design for complete chemical plants. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 28, 219–234] to the ammonia synthesis process. Threemodes of operation are considered: (I) given feed rate, (IIa) maximum throughput, and (IIb) “optimized” throughput. Two control structures...

In an effort to relate static measurements of machine code instructions and addressing modes to their dynamic counterparts, both types of measurements were made on nine different machines using a large and varied suite of programs. Using classical regression analysis techniques, the relationship between static architecture measurements and dynamic architecture measurements was explored. The sta...

This article reviews the current trends and impact of mass incarceration on communities of color, with a focus on criminal justice policy and practice contributors to racial disparity. The impact of these disproportionate incarceration rates on public safety, offenders, and communities are discussed. Recommendations for criminal justice and other policy reforms to reduce unwarranted racial disp...

The behavior of the conditional expectation E{X I Y) under a small perturbation Z of the conditioning random variable Y is analyzed. We show that if Y and Z are independent then E(XIY + EZ) converges to E{XIY) in mean as E --* 0 for all integrable X, provided the distribution of Y is absolutely continuous. We also show that the limit is E{X 1 Y, Z} rather than E(X 1 Y}, i.e., there is no stabil...