We propose a new policy for virtual path bandwidth allocation in broadband networks. Based on a threshold scheme, our policy handles the inherent tradeoo between bandwidth utilization and processing costs. In each virtual path controller the thresholds are chosen so as to keep bandwidth utilization high, while obtaining a low rate of processing requests. Two novel ideas are used in our threshol...

Regulation of carcinogens in the United States has been based on a "no threshold" policy. This makes the assumption there exists no level of exposure for which the possibility of causing harm is truly zero. The alternative "threshold" policy assumes that there exists some level of exposure at which no harm will come to anyone in a population so exposed. The no-threshold policy made sense when a...

Using the two-body interactions obtained from a chiral constituent quark model, we study all NN and NN states with I = 0, 1, 2 and J = 1/2, 3/2 at threshold, taking into account all three-body configurations with S and D wave components. We constrain further the limits for the N spin-triplet scattering length a1/2,1. Using the hypertriton binding energy, we find a narrow interval for the possib...

BACKGROUND Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits federal funds recipients from providing care to limited English proficiency (LEP) persons more limited in scope or lower in quality than care provided to others. In 1999, the California Department of Mental Health implemented a "threshold language access policy" to meet its Title VI obligations. Under this policy, Medi-Cal agencies must...

Image fusion is a method for obtaining a highly informative image by merging the relative information of an object obtained from two or more image sources of the same scene. The satellite cameras give a single band panchromatic (PAN) image with high spatial information and multispectral (MS) image with more spectral information. The problem exists today is either PAN or MS image is available fr...