We will restrict our discussion to finite groups acting on closed, connected, orientable surfaces, with (g) orientation-preserving for all g e G. In addition we will consider only effective ( is injective) free actions. Free means that (g) is fixed-point-free for all geG, g 4= 1. This paper addresses the classification of such actions. Given an action of G on F, as above, new actions c...

Graphs representing interconnection networks are often drawn without considering inherent symmetry and bisection properties. By using the nauty package for analyzing a graph for automorphisms, vertices are then displayed in AT&T’s NEATO package to make topologically-equivalent vertices obvious. Edges are similarly colored based on the METIS package’s heuristic for bisecting a graph by removing ...

The selective recovery of heavy metals of Cu, Zn, Ni and Cr from a mixed plating sludge by sulfidation and oxidation treatment was targeted in this study. At first, the mixed plating sludge was simultaneously subjected to an extraction and Cu sulfidation process at pH=1.5 to dissolve heavy metals and to precipitate Cu as CuS. In the next step, the sulfidation treatment of Zn was carried out at ...

For m < n, any real analytic m-submanifold of complex n-space with a nondegenerate CR singularity is shown to be locally equivalent, under a holomorphic coordinate change, to a fixed real algebraic variety defined by linear and quadratic polynomials. The situation is analogous to Whitney’s stability theorem for cross-cap singularities of smooth maps. The complex analyticity of the normalizing t...

An algorithm is presented to fit precipitates in atom probe tomographic data sets as equivalent ellipsoids. Unlike previous techniques, which measure only the radius of gyration, these ellipsoids retain the moments of inertia and principle axes of the original precipitate, preserving crystallographic orientational information. The algorithm is applied to study interconnected γ-precipitates (L12...

The value of a postremission treatment in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), with alternating combinations of non-cross-resistant drugs, has been prospectively assessed. Of 515 evaluable patients, 347 (67.4%) entered into complete remission (CR), following induction treatment with daunorubicin (DNR), vincristine (VCR), and cytosine arabinoside (ara-C). After one consolidation course, 248 patient...

AIM Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a proven intervention that substantially improves physical health and decreases death and disability following a cardiovascular event. Traditional CR typically involves 36 on-site exercise sessions spanning a 12-week period. To date, the optimal dose of CR has yet to be determined. This study compared a high contact frequency CR programme (HCF, 34 on-site sess...

Various definitions of directional derivatives in topological vector spaces are compared. Directional derivatives in the sense of G~teaux, Fr6chet, and Hadamard are singled out from the general framework of cr-directional differentiability. It is pointed out that, in the case of finite-dimensional spaces and locally Lipschitz mappings, all these concepts of directional differentiability are equ...

A new concept of stability, closely related to that of structural stability, is introduced and applied to the study of Cr endomorphisms with singularities. A map that is stable in this sense will be conjugated to each perturbation that is equivalent to it in a geometric sense. It will be shown that this kind of stability implies Axiom A, Omega-stability and that every critical point is wanderin...

Cosmic rays (CR), constrained by scattering on magnetic irregularities, are believed to propagate diffusively. However, a well-known defect of diffusive approximation, whereby some of the particles propagate unrealistically fast, has directed interest toward an alternative CR transport model based on the “telegraph” equation. Though, its derivations often lack rigor and transparency leading to ...