Ad-hoc networking is one of the fastest growing areas of information technology. Together with rapidly evolving handheld devices it has created a demand for running distributed applications also on wireless devices. CORBA, the most widely used middleware solution in fixed networks offers an open, platform-independent environment that enables easy development of distributed services. However, CO...

The aim of this work was to study the derivation of bovine embryonic stem-like (ES-like) cells from the inner cell mass (ICM) of in vitro produced blastocysts. The ICMs were mechanically isolated and six out of seventeen (35%) ICMs could attach to a monolayer of murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEF).Ten days after, primary outgrowths were mechanically dissected into several small clumps and transf...

The ICMS aligns its founding with the history of the in-vitro fertilization procedures developed in the 1970's. Developed by pioneering OB/GYN's, this medical procedure rapidly expanded to be practiced by tens of thousands of physicians throughout the world. IVF has long been classified as a medical procedure, and thus not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Like IVF, autologou...

TEM pictures that were taken at different polymerization times during the formation process of the intramolecularly cross-linked macromolecule (ICM) indicate that ICM growth undergoes three stages. At the first stage, monomers (i.e. prepolymers) react with each other to form small coils, called “dot molecules” (DM), which are shown as small black dots in TEM pictures. At the second phase, the r...

ICMS is a value-added tax and the most important in Brazil terms of revenue. This paper investigates technical feasibility impact reform to ICMS. The aim twofold, on one hand, modernize redress some current flaws neutrality, simplicity transparency and, other, reduce its regressivity, increase redistribution, poverty positively social welfare (without loss revenue). A static behavioral microsim...

AccuRhythm AI is a suite of cloud-based algorithms that filter and suppress false arrhythmia detections from insertable cardiac monitors (ICMs). Its initial release represented large reduction to remote monitoring burden, suppressing 74.1% AF alerts. Deploying performance updates easy with AI, but the adjudication effort train test becomes increasingly burdensome as improves. Ever larger datase...

Resumo O ICMS ecológico é a aplicação de critérios ambientais na distribuição recursos arrecadados pelos estados brasileiros. Surgiu como instrumento inovador capaz desenvolver política ambiental e justiça fiscal, compensando financeiramente incentivando municípios com áreas conservação ambiental. objetivo do estudo comparar receita pública gerado pelas Terras Indígenas o da produção agrícola e...

This project was a continuation of previous work under DOE CCPP funding in which we developed a twin approach of non-homogeneous hidden Markov models (NHMMs) and coupled ocean-atmosphere (O-A) intermediate-complexity models (ICMs) to identify the potentially predictable modes of climate variability, and to investigate their impacts on the regional-scale. We have developed a family of latent-var...

Clusters of inside cells (ICs) were isolated immunosurgically from morulae and early cavitating blastocysts, and cultured for varying periods in vitro. The ICs responded to their changed position by transformation to a blastocyst-like vesicle and also showed a correlated synthesis of trophectodermal-marker polypeptides. Both changes were inhibited by alpha-amanitin, indicating that transcriptio...

We study the dependence of the simulated ENSO on the mean simulated climate in the HadCM3 GCM and attempt to understand its relation with results from intermediate-complexity models (ICMs). Our aim is to bridge an existing gap between results from complex GCMs and from more readily understandable ICMs, and thereby to improve our process-based prediction skills of the potential sensitivity of ob...