T h i s r e p o r t p r e s e n t s the r e s u l t s o f e x p e r i m e n t s o n t h e s t a r t l i n g a n d a w a k e n i n g e f f e c t s o f s o n i c booms. The o b j e c t i v e s o f the s tudy were (1) t o bu i ld and test a dev ice and a s soc ia t ed room where one could simul a t e the e f f e c t s o f s o n i c booms on a room i n a house, and (2) t o conduct s t u d i e s of ...

the isoe lect r i c f ocusing p a t terns and ph activity cur ves of f i ve glycosidas e e nzymes i n blood plasma and ur i ne were s t ud i e d . this s tudy demons trated the presence o f a sing le molecular f onn in a -glucosidase and of two mole cul a r fonns of the enzymes h-a ce t yl-b-d-gluco sarni nidase, na c e t y l -•p-d-g a l a c t o s amin i ua s e and s-glucuronidase i n both plas...

The f ie ld of algori thm design is concerned wi th the development of e f f ic ient methods f o r so l v i ng computat ional problems. Although the f ield traces its roo ts to theore t i ca l c o m p u t e r science, recent algorithmic advances have drastical ly reduced the costs of rea l c o m p u t a t i o n s . For this reason it is important that anyone involved w i th comput ing have at l...

Ethanol i s a known tes t i cu la r tox in and i s known to impai r reproduc t ive per formance in exper imenta l an imals and humans . Our p rev ious s tudy wi th Wis ta r rats demonstrated the deleterious effects of e thanol in t es tes inc lud ing tes t i cu la r atrophy, germ cell apoptosis, oxidative stress and reduced steroidogenesis (1, 2) . We had also reported alcohol abuse in men resu...

100 patients s uffering f rom myocardial i n f a r cti on we r e t ested i n various hos p itals, f o r cho l ester o l , t r iglyceride , and t otal lipid . method s f or choleste r o l , triglyce ride a nd total lipid tests , as wel l as the ir norma l ranges e xpl ained . spe cifi cations of pa t i ents were compi l e d a s f a r as poss ible and i n table no.1, a comparison has be en g i ve...

A new concep t in the fo rm of a mobi le sc reen (0 .5 x 0 .4 m) produc ing u l t ra -c lean exponent ia l LAF (a i r f low cent ra l zone 0 .6 m/s and pe r iphera l zone 0 .4 m/s) was inves t iga ted as an addi t ion to convent iona l turbulent /mix ing opera t ing room vent i l a t ion . The evalua t ion was per formed dur ing s t r ic t ly s tandard ised sham opera t ions re f lec t ing cond...

The paper presents the analysis outcomes on the catching-up process. Additionally, it seeks to identify the “convergence clubs” in cross-national section. It implements a traditional analysis of convergence, tracking the catching-up process as well as the per capita income dynamics across time. The author finds no statistically significant relationship between an average annual GDP PPP per capi...

We start by describing two of the main proposals for duality in Abelian gauge theories, namely F (ield strength)-duality approach and the S-duality formalism. We then discuss how F -duality and S-duality can be applied to the case of linearized gravity. By emphasizing the similarities and differences between these two type of dualities we explore the possibility of combining them in just one du...

T h e inf luence of s t imu lus modali ty and task dif f iculty on workload and perform a n c e was invest igated in the current s tudy. T h e goal ums t o quant i fy the "cost" (in t e r m s of response t i m e and ezperienced workload) incurred when essentially serial task componen t s shared c o m m o n e l emen t s (e.g., the response to one init iated the other) which could be accomplished...

K e y w o r d s P a r a b o l i c equations, Cauchy-Dirichlet problem. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N Let Z; be a l inear parabol ic opera to r of the form, x lx j i,j=l i=1 ! ! ] ~n -F1 . w h e r e x = (xt , t) ---( x l , x 2 , . . . ,X/n,t) C Let f~ C ]R ~ be a bounded C 1,1 domain and QT, the cylinder ft × (0, T) . Aim of this note is to s tudy the Cauchy-Dir ichle t problem, Z:u = f , a.e. x C ...