In July 2000 the FCC issued the rules to govern the upcoming 700MHz auction. The rules are a departure from the auction architectures previously used by the FCC. Rather than all bidding only on individual licenses, the auction participants will be able to bid on combinations or packages of licenses. Several combinatorial auction processes exist in the literature and testing demonstrates that su...

For generic 3D sampling, the Body Centered Cubic (BCC) lattice and the Face Centered Cubic (FCC) lattice are significantly superior to the traditionally popular Cartesian Cubic (CC) lattice. Motivated by the goal of high visual fidelity in the visualization community, this thesis investigates the relative perceptual merits of high quality reconstruction filters for CC, BCC, and FCC sampled data...

High-accuracy lattice sums have been evaluated for the Lennard-Jones 12-6 pair potential, without cutoffs, in the close-packed fcc and hcp lattices. The results confirm the small relative stability of hcp at low pressure, and locate precisely the first-order phase transition at zero temperature to the fcc structure. The reduced pressure p / at this transition is approximately 878.476 . . . , wi...

We use a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate the shaking of spheres at different vibrational amplitudes and find that spontaneous crystallization occurs in specific dynamical regimes. Several crystallizing transitions are typically observed, leading to end states which can be fully or partially ordered, depending on the shaking amplitude, which we investigate using metrics of global and lo...

AIM The aim of this study is to explore the history of family-centered care (FCC). BACKGROUND FCC was developed after Word War II, when nursing, then deeply paternalistic, had become asynchronous with changing social expectations for the care of hospitalized children. METHODS This is a historical review of literature reflecting development of pediatric models of care using publications of c...

Introduction Net neutrality—the notion that all Internet traffic, regardless of its source or type, must be treated the same by Internet Service Providers (ISPs)—is back on the nation’s political radar. The catalyst was the D.C. Court of Appeals’ decision last January in Verizon v. FCC, which overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “Open Internet Order.” The essence of the Cour...

Heritable cancer syndromes affect all ethnicities, however, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds do not attend the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) Familial Cancer Centre (FCC) in the numbers that reflect the diversity of the Victorian population. Despite interpreters routinely organised, there still remains an impediment to attendance. Based on this observation, w...

A novel competitive binding assay was implemented to monitor the binding of a redox inactive substrate to a redox inactive metallacrown host based on its competition with ferrocene carboxylate (FcC(-)) using cyclic voltammetry (CV). First, the binding of FcC(-) to Ln(III)[15-MC(Cu(II),N,L-pheHA)-5] (LnMC) hosts was characterized by cyclic voltammetry. It was shown that the voltammetric half wav...

Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is a major refinery process designed to upgrade heavy and less valuable petroleum products to gasoline and lighter products. The feedstock for the FCC process ranges from light gas oils to heavy hydro-treated resids. The complexity of the feedstock, and the associated analytical chemistry and computational obstacles, helped shape early FCC modeling approaches (2.3...

As one of soft computing optimization tools, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been applied in many fields such as in handwritten recognition and classification. Associated with the development of PSO algorithm is the data representation to be used as input to the algorithm. One of data representation scheme is Freeman chain code (FCC). As one of traditional scheme in representing data, FCC...