Small polymeric nanoparticles sized below 10 nm were effectively synthesized via free radical polymerization of a cross-linker in a glassy polymer matrix, owing to the successful prohibition of aggregation between the primary nanoparticles by the matrix.

—In this work, an analytical coverage probability framework is derived for all the User Equipment (UE) types in a Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR)-aided heterogeneous network leveraging tools of stochastic geometry. This framework is used to determine the minimum distance for edge femtocells to safely reuse same spectrum resources utilized by center macro users (MUEs) for successful signal tra...

ÐNew heuristic algorithms are proposed for the Graph Partitioning problem. A greedy construction scheme with an appropriate tie-breaking rule (MIN-MAX-GREEDY) produces initial assignments in a very fast time. For some classes of graphs, independent repetitions of MIN-MAX-GREEDY are sufficient to reproduce solutions found by more complex techniques. When the method is not competitive, the initia...

Harmony is one of three major elements in the music. Harmonics are the basic theory of composition. There are several kinds of prohibitions in relation to the chord progression in the rules of Harmonics. When composers compose music pieces, they pay attention not to contain these prohibitions. The prohibitions are empiricallydefined with giving the musical expressions to melody processes by try...

Many incomplete approaches for MAX-SAT have been proposed in the last years. The objective of this investigation is not so much horse-racing (beating the competition on selected benchmarks) but understanding the qualitative differences between the various methods. In particular, we focus on reactive search schemes where taskdependent and local properties in the configuration space are used for ...

In this paper we study turn prohibition based multicast wormhole message routing in computer networks with irregular interconnection graphs. Routing is accomplished in two phases. When a topology change is detected the first phase of routing is executed. Here the network graph is analyzed and a set of turns to be prohibited to break all cycles in the channel dependency graph is created. The tur...

A recent decision by the High Court of Australia (Wong v Commonwealth; Selim v Professional Services Review Committee (2009) 236 CLR 573) (the PSR case) has not only clarified the scope of the Australian constitutional prohibition on "any form of civil conscription" in relation to federal legislation concerning medical or dental services (s 51xxiiiA), but has highlighted its importance as a gre...

Predatory pricing law attempts to keep prices low by harshly sanctioning prices that are anticompetitively low. The paradox of predatory pricing law is that even an analytically perfect specification of the line between predatory and innocent price cuts would result in deviations from optimal pricing because the very recognition of a predatory pricing offense will induce some firms to forgo inn...