Three studies were analyzed this year that examined genetic aspects of Swiss needle cast (SNC) tolerance. Families sampled across the Siuslaw National forest showed differences in foliage health traits, but very little of the variation could be explained by environmental or climatic conditions at the parent tree location. Five test sites of the Nehalem series of progeny trials were measured for...

To optimize the technological process of manufacturing copper wire coated with solder POIN-52 grade, optimal modes for tinning temperature, linear velocity, diameter diamond die and flux were identified. It was found that best is achieved when cleaning surface a by method electrochemical degreasing. The results tests showed that, in terms mechanical electrical parameters meets require-ments ele...

BACKGROUND Cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently have impaired glucose metabolism. AIMS To investigate whether impaired glucose metabolism affects the growth rate of the tumour. PATIENTS AND METHODS Tumour doubling time (DT), assessed by ultrasound imaging analysis, was measured in 60 patients with single small HCC (diameter <30 mm). DT was compared with plasma i...

We report an experimental and theoretical study on the alignment error tolerance of a 2 μm-size solid immersion lens (SIL) illuminated by different types of focused spots. Tightly confined focal spots are of great interest for improving the performance of many optical systems, so that a study on the alignment tolerance is of interest. In particular, it was found that micro-SILs can be largely m...

The present paper approaches the comparative design and analysis of 5 SRM topologies for an EPAS application. Different number of phases and different combination of stator and rotor pole number will be considered, keeping the same main dimensions (outer and inner stator diameter, airgap length, stack length, stator pole height, stator yoke width, rotor pole height) and the same winding per pha...

We propose in this work a model for describing visual acuity (V) as a function of defocus and pupil diameter. Although the model is mainly based on geometrical optics, it also incorporates nongeometrical effects phenomenologically. Compared to similar visual acuity models, the proposed one considers the effect of astigmatism and the variability of best corrected V among individuals; it also tak...

In this paper we give new results on the fault{tolerance capabilities of the star graph. We rst consider the problem of determining the maximum number r(n) of vertices in a n! vertices star graph S n such that by removing any set of vertices and/or edges from S n of cardinality at most r(n) the diameter of S n does not increase. Subsequently, we give an algorithm for broadcasting a message in S...

Distributed double loop networks are very advantageous for the design and implementation of local area networks and parallel processing architectures, mainly due to their fault-tolerance, low communication latency, and regularity. In this paper, an algorithm for the formulation of routing tables that facilitate routing of messages in a distributed double loop network is presented. The algorithm...

The hypercube as a parallel interconnection network has been of academic and engineering concern for tens of years due to its many merits. However, its increasing node degree is an obvious weakness. Some networks such as the cube-connected cycles (CCC) and the de Bruijn network have been proposed to overcome the increasing degree of the hypercube. In this paper, we present a new cost-effective ...

DCell [7] has been proposed as a server centric network structure for data centers. DCell can support millions of servers with high network capacity and provide good fault tolerance by only using commodity mini-switches. In this paper, we show that DCell is only a special case of a more generalized DCell structure. We give the generalized DCell construction rule and several new DCell structures...