After years of efforts to push the LEP performance to, and indeed beyond, the limits of what had been believed possible, hints of a signal of a Higgs boson at 115GeV/c appeared in June 2000, were confirmed in September, and confirmed again in November. Spending an additional six-month period with LEP would have given the unambiguous opportunity of a fundamental discovery. Instead, this possibil...

machines that can interact with them as they interact with each other. Science fiction writers have given us these goals in the form of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, at present, our computers are deaf, dumb, and blind, almost unaware of the environment they are in and of the user who interacts with them. In this article, I present th...

The screening method, which employs readily available data, is an inexpensive and quick means of estimating vaccine effectiveness (VE). We compared estimates of effectiveness of heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) against invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) using the screening and case-control methods. Cases were children aged 19-35 months with pneumococcus isolated from normally ...

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, 20–39 (2008) © 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20305 1 COM (97) 131. Promotion of road safety in the European Union 1997–2001. 2 The direct economic cost of world road crashes has be...

CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF PESTICIDE REGULATION MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY BRANCH SUMMARY OF TOXICOLOGY DATA ORTHO-PHENYLPHENOL (OPP) AND SODIUM ORTHO-PHENYLPHENATE (SOPP) OPP: Chemical Code # 448, Document Processing Number (DPN) # 00129, SB 950 # 090 SOPP: Chemical Code # 248, Document Processing Number (DPN) # 50438, SB 950 # 474 July 29, 1986 Revised: 3/30/87, 8/30/89,...

The work was created in the framework of the research project B141180000050.03 “Alcohol craving in alcohol-dependent people. Polish adaptation of measuring tools and their distribution” (“Odczuwanie głodu alkoholu przez osoby uzależnione. Polska adaptacja narzędzi pomiaru i ich upowszechnienie”), financed by the State Agency for the Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems. Validation of the Poli...

The proposed digital system consists of several different modules that can be divided into three main groups: input modules, audio output modules, and video output modules. All of these modules will be clocked off a 27MHz clock signal provided by the 6.111 Labkit. The system’s input comes from an analog signal produced by a pedometer, and it is then processed by the input modules to produce rel...

The pH on the frustule of individual cells of the marine centric diatoms Coscinodiscus granii and Coscinodiscus wailesii (Bacillariophyceae) was measured with pH microsensors in culture media with increasing pH values of 8.04, 8.14, and 8.22, respectively. In 85-96% of the C.granii cells the pH on the frustule was up to 0.4 units higher than that of the medium, reaching a maximum pH 8.95. Only ...

Why do computers need emotional intelligence? Science fiction often portrays emotional computers as dangerous and frightening, and as a serious threat to human life. One of the most famous examples is HAL, the supercomputer onboard the spaceship Discovery, in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL could express, recognize and respond to human emotion, and generally had strong emotional skills – t...