A Jaw-Dropping Predicament

A Ghazalian Predicament Epistemology and Metaphysics of Causation in the Works of Ghazali

Evolution: Velvet Worm Biogeography

The present-day distribution of velvet worms corresponds neatly to the ancient supercontinent Gondwana - except for a puzzling outpost in southeast Asia. Jaw-dropping new fossil material now establishes when and how peripatid onychophorans reached this isolated spot.

Suppression of jaw-opening and trigemino-hypoglossal reflexes during swallowing in the cat.

Jaw-opening and trigemino-hypoglossal reflexes can be evoked by innocuous as well as noxious afferents from intra-oral structures. It has been reported that the amplitude of the jaw-opening reflex evoked by weak electrical stimulation of the upper lip is subject not only to tonic suppression but also to phase-linked modulation during mastication. In this study, we investigated whether the jaw-o...

The ICT predicament of new ICT-enabled service

The advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) has triggered many ICT-enabled services. Regarding this service, the complementary ICT system involves with customers’ devices, industry-wide ICT development and nation-wide ICT infrastructure, which are difficult for any individual organization to control. The ICT predicament is the phenomenon that the complementary ICT system...

An Analytical Model of Cell Coverage for Soft Handoffs in Cellular CDMA Systems

In this paper, we present an analytical model to study the soft handoff coverage by evaluating the new call blocking and the handoff call dropping probabilities in a cellular CDMA system. By assuming that the new call generation rate per unit area is uniformly distributed over the service area, enlarging the soft handoff region may increase both the blocking and the dropping probabilities. On t...