In a comparison of rates of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining malignancies (ADMs) for 1989-1996 versus 1997-2002, we found a decrease in ADMs (rate ratio, 0.31; P<.0001) and a significant increase in non-AIDS-defining malignancies (non-ADMs; rate ratio, 10.87; P<.0002). The mean CD4 cell count was lower among patients with ADMs than among those with non-ADMs. A longer duration ...

This paper describes a revision of the scheme presented in P13/01, P13/02, P13/03 and P13/04 with the aim of predicting fluctuations for the wider range of source configurations which were introduced in ADMS 2, namely line, area, volume and multiple sources. Other changes between the ADMS 2 and ADMS 3 schemes are also summarised in this paper and some tests of the scheme are presented. The sche...

An angular dependence model (ADM) describes the anisotropy in the reflectance field. ADMs are a key element in determining the top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) albedos and radiative fluxes. This study utilizes 1-yr satellite data from the Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB) for overcast scenes to examine the variation of ADMs with cloud properties. Using ScaRaB shortwave (SW) overcast radiance mea...

[1] Using multiple satellite instruments, we demonstrate a new empirical method for obtaining shortwave (SW) aerosol angular distribution models (ADMs) over cloud-free oceans. We use nearly a year’s worth of multispectral Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data to obtain aerosol properties within a Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) footprint and Special Sensor Mi...

Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) rings are being deployed to support multiple SONET/SDH selfhealing rings over a single physical optical ring. In such systems, the dominating cost is the SONET Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs). To minimize the system cost, algorithms must be developed to assign wavelengths to lightpaths in the system so that the number of ADMs required is minimized. Ho...

This work deals with wavelength assignment for lightpaths. We restrict our attention to the near term, in which WDM networks will be in the form of rings and higher level networks will be SONET/SDH self-healing rings. This view changes the goal of wavelength assignment (WLA) vs. previous work on the subject in a number of aspects. First, a pair of SONET add/drop multiplexers (ADMs) terminates e...

Agricultural Disaster Management System (ADMS) has become an important tool and technology in modern agricultural production. In this paper, we present a new method for the design and implementation of ADMS. This method is based on a new layered architecture model, which integrates flexibly GIS, simulation models and expert system in ADMS and simplifies its design and implementation. This syste...

Koza has previously shown that the power of a genetic programming system can often be enhanced by allowing for the simultaneous evolution of a main program and a collection of automatically deened functions (ADFs). In this paper I show how related techniques can be used to simultaneously evolve a collection of automatically deened macros (ADMs). I show how ADMs can be used to produce new contro...

This work deals with wavelength assignment for lightpaths. We restrict our attention to the near term, in which WDM networks will be in the form of rings and higher level networks will be SONET/SDH self-healing rings. This view changes the goal of wavelength assignment (WLA) vs. previous work on the subject in a number of aspects. First, a pair of SONET add/drop multiplexers (ADMs) terminates e...

Koza has previously shown that the power of a genetic programming system can often be enhanced by allowing for the simultaneous evolution of a main program and a collection of automatically defined functions (ADFs). In this paper I show how related techniques can be used to simultaneously evolve a collection of automatically defined macros (ADMs). I show how ADMs can be used to produce new cont...