In the present paper, we address the issue of fast ion and fusion product transport in conditions that are typically relevant for burning plasmas operating in so called Advanced Tokamak regimes. Our results have direct implications, e.g., on the choice of current profiles for ITER steady state operations. We demonstrate that in a Tokamak equilibrium with hollow-q profile, in general, two types ...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the interaction of two kinds of external stimuli (long-term tactile stimulation and underwater trauma) on the exploratory behavior of malnourished rats in an elevated plus maze (EPM). The results showed that tactile stimulation partially recovered body weight deficits produced by malnutrition and decreased EPM exploration. Malnutrition increase...

The role of firmware and digital signal processing in radio transceiver design has increased to meet the global coverage requirement and to cover extra features in the mobile telephony. The Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is the practical approach for this. The paper reviews the SDR concepts, the benefits, the design steps involved in SDR, some emerging concepts, technological solutions and challe...

Software radio or software defined radio (SDR) is a quite attractive field of research in terms of theoretical crossover research themes between radio engineering and computer science in academia as well as new multi-standard or all-purpose radio system products in industry [1], [2]. In order to promote research and development in a field of SDR this paper briefly introduces some prospective as...

Chen et al. in 2004 proposed a new hierarchy structure, called the enhanced pyramid network (EPM, for short), by replacing each mesh in a pyramid network (PM, for short) with a torus. Recently, some topological properties and communication on the EPMs have been investigated or derived. Their results have revealed that an EPM is an attractive alternative to a PM. This study investigates the node...

In this paper, we propose an evolutionary emergency model of home network environment (EEMHNE). This model not only can do self-tuning to fit the home network environment but also detect the emergency event automatically. There are three modules in this model, namely, emergency process module (EPM), emergency knowledge base (EKB), and knowledge base evolution module (KBEM). EKB includes three c...

After prolonged treatment in horses for equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), cerebrospinal fluid antibodies to Sarcocystic neurona may persist. The albumin quotient did not change and the IgG index decreased in horses with EPM after repeated spinal taps 2–3 months apart. A decrease in IgG index, a measure of intrathecal antibody production, may indicate a favorable response to treatment fo...

Several variables, including age, are known to influence anxiety. Previous exposure to the elevated-plus maze (EPM) is known to modify emotional behaviour as retesting in the EPM at a standard age of 3 months increases open-arm avoidance and attenuates the effects of anxiolytic drugs. This study analysed whether similar results are obtained when older animals are subjected to these experimental...

This paper describes the 1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented an evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech recognition and information retrieval technologies. The motivations behind the SDR Track and background regarding its development and implementation are discussed. The SDR evaluation collection and topics are d...

This paper describes the 1998 TREC-7 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track which implemented an evaluation of retrieval of broadcast news excerpts using a combination of automatic speech recognition and information retrieval technologies. The motivations behind the SDR Track and background regarding its development and implementation are discussed. The SDR evaluation collection and topics are d...