In ?How do Embryos Assess Risk? Vibrational Cues in Predator-Induced Hatching of RedEyed Treefrogs? (2005), Karen Warkentin reported on experiments she conducted to see how red-eyed treefrog embryos, Agalychnis callidryas [5], can distinguish between vibrations due to predator attacks and other environmental occurrences, such as storms. Though the ability of red-eyed treefrogs to alter their ha...

Microorganisms maintain a constant monitoring of extra-cellular physicochemical conditions in order to respond and modify their gene expression patterns accordingly. Modelling plays an essential role in developing an understanding of the regulatory networks in microorganisms. Means-end analysis, also called functional modelling, is proposed as a methodology to model regulatory networks. A model...

The output tracking control problem for fuzzy time -delay systems in presence of parameter perturbations has been solved via fuzzy T-S system models and variablestructure control approach. Following the reaching condition, a variable-structure fuzzy control method is proposed accordingly, when the time delay is known and available and when unknown and unavailable. The method guarantees the syst...

Cleaning pipeline networks is a routine operation in almost every chemical plant. Our aim is to develop a systematic strategy to generate the needed operating procedures with Petri-net models. Specifically, the proper materialtransfer routes are selected on the basis of the Petri-net representation of all possible paths. The equipment models are then attached to this path model according to net...

At TCC 2005, Groth underlined the usefulness of working in small RSA subgroups of hidden order. In assessing the security of the relevant hard problems, however, the best attack considered for a subgroup of size 2 had a complexity of O(2 ). Accordingly, = 100 bits was suggested as a concrete parameter. This paper exhibits an attack with a complexity of roughly 2 /2 operations, suggesting that G...

Recently it was shown that for the linear time-invariant plant ASPR(Almost Strictly Positive Real)/ASNR(Almost Strictly Negative Real) property can be used to design an adaptive multi-periodic repetitive control system that guarantee the Lyapunov stability of the whole system. This paper attempts to extend this concept to SP(Strictly Passive)/ASP(Almost Strictly Passive) nonlinear plant. The ge...

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3575, April 2005 The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingl...

Proton Source and LEBT At CEA/Saclay the SILHI (Source des Ions Légères a Hautes Intensitées) is operating since 1996 and its nominal beam parameters fit to the needs of the FAIR proton linac. In December 2005 beam emittances for various source and LEBT parameters were measured during a joint CEA/GSI/IAP campaign. Its evaluation in 2006 followed by additional measurements on space charge compen...

This paper aims at an important task of computing the webometrics university ranking and investigating if there exists a correlation between rankings provided by world prominent rankers such as QS ranking, for time period 2005–2016. However, portal provides required data recent years only, starting from 2012, which is insufficient investigation. The rest can be obtained internet archive. existi...