Satellite measurements of the global mesospheric sodium layer Z. Y. Fan, J. M. C. Plane, J. Gumbel, J. Stegman, and E. J. Llewellyn School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden ISAS, Department of Physics and Engineering Physic...

Abstract Introduction Weight reduction is a standard recommended component of OSA treatment in people with obesity or overweight; however, the challenge to achieve and maintain weight has limited its clinical application outside benefit established after bariatric surgery. Currently no FDA-approved anti-obesity medication (AOM) demonstrated clinically meaningful improvement severity symptomolog...

MOON. Y. Ishihara 1 , N. Namiki 2 , S. Sugita 3 , K. Matsumoto 1 , S. Goossens 1 , H. Araki 1 , H. Noda 1 , S. Sasaki 1 , T. Iwata 4 and H. Hanada 1 , 1 RISE Project Office, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (2-12 Hoshigaoka, Mizusawa-ku, Oshu, Iwate 023-0861, Japan; [email protected]), 2 Kyushu Univ. (6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan), 3 Univ. of Tokyo (5-1-5 ...

The paper describes the role of Independent Safety Auditor (ISA) as carried out at the present in the defence and other sectors in the UK. It outlines the way the ISA role has developed over the past 15–20 years with the changing regulatory environment. The extent to which the role comprises audit, assessment or advice is a source of confusion, and the paper clarifies this by means of some defi...

This work was supported by the Spanish MINECO/FEDER under grant no. MAT2015‐71035‐R. The authors thank Norbert Esser (Leibniz Institut fur Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS‐e.V.) for access to synchrotron ellipsometer and PTB (Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt) expert assistance during beamtime at MLS synchrotron. gratefully acknowledge Michael Winkler (OvGU Magdeburg) data recording C.A. a...

Manuscript received May 28, 1999. † The authors are with Communications Research Laboratory, Koganei-shi, 184-8795 Japan. †† The authors are with NTT Multimedia Networks Laboratories, Musashino-shi, 180-8585 Japan. ††† The author is with NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Yokohama-shi, 244-0801 Japan. †††† The authors are with National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka-shi, 181-8588 Japan. ‡‡†...

In this short position paper we argue that dependability technologies must be based on best-effort engineering principles, if they are to be useful for general-purpose enterprise and consumer IT. We will explain why ‘best-effort based dependability’ is not an oxymoron, but, instead, a necessity. We will also argue that service-orientation fits the best-effort engineering philosophy, and in that...

Information seeking anxiety can be interpreted as the fear and/or apprehension of searching for information resources during the information seeking process. The current study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of the information seeking anxiety among a group of graduate students. The target population of the study comprised 11000 postgraduate students enrolled in various graduate ...

The contentious debates between RISC and CISC have died down, and a CISC ISA, the x86 continues to be popular. Nowadays, processors with CISC-ISAs translate the CISC instructions into RISC style micro-operations (eg: uops of Intel and ROPS of AMD). The use of the uops (or ROPS) allows the use of RISC-style execution cores, and use of various micro-architectural techniques that can be easily imp...

Multimedia signal processing, or media processing [1], is the processing of digital multimedia information in a programmable processor. Digital multimedia information includes visual information like images, video, graphics and animation, audio information like voice and music, and textual information like keyboard text and handwriting. With general-purpose computers processing more multimedia ...