1 Overview The robots used in this competition were generously provided by Sony 3]. The robots are the same as the commercial AIBO robots except for slight hardware changes and programming capabilities. These autonomous robots are about 30cm long and have 18 degrees of freedom. The neck pans 90 allowing the robot to scan the eld with its on board camera. Six uniquely colored landmarks are place...

Header compression and multiplexing in LISP draft-saldana-lisp-compress-mux-00 Abstract When small payloads are transmitted through a packet-switched network, the resulting overhead may result significant. This is stressed in the case of LISP, where a number of headers are prepended to a packet, as new headers have to be added to each packet. This document proposes to send together a number of ...

Happy birthday CM! On 23 November 2006, we launched Chinese Medicine (CM), a peer-reviewed, open access, international, interdisciplinary and scholarly journal in Chinese medicine [1]. Two years on, with the best efforts and sometimes personal sacrifices made by the authors, editorial and advisory board members, reviewers, and the editorial teams in Macao and at BioMed Central in London, we hav...

Pectinases are a group of enzymes with broad application, including in plant fiber processing, pectic wastewater treatment, paper pulping, fruit juice extraction, and clarification. With an increasing industrial demand for these enzymes, it is useful to isolate organisms that produce large amounts pectinase possess wide ranges stability factors like temperature pH. In this study, 17 out 29 bact...

Double perovskite, Cs2AgBiBr6, is introduced as a lead-free perovskite solar cell. Device modeling of Cs2AgBiBr6 (DP) was accomplished to obtain the optimum parameters using Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator (SCAPS). Two devices with two different hole transport layers (HTLs) were investigated, including P3HT and Cu2O. For both HTLs, an optimal thicknesses 1200 nm defect densities $$1.0\times$$ ...

463 was no malignant transformation at all, nor any local or distant metastasis. This case is the largest in size ever reported in the literature, measuring 21 cm×17 cm×12 cm. Although the radiological findings sug­ gested the involvement of the pericranium, surgical exploration and the management plan favored simple excision with a free margin and skin graft coverage. During extended follow­up...

We have used positron annihilation spectroscopy to determine the nature and the concentrations of the open volume defects in as-grown and electron irradiated (E(el)=2 MeV, fluence 6 x 10(17) cm(-2)) ZnO samples. The Zn vacancies are identified at concentrations of [V(Zn)] approximately 2 x 10(15) cm(-3) in the as-grown material and [V(Zn)] approximately 2 x 10(16) cm(-3) in the irradiated ZnO. ...

A nonstandard, high sensitivity, absorption detection technique has been applied to the investigation of the very weak fifth, sixth, and seventh overtones of HCN at 100 Torr and 296 K. The frequency range covered is from 17 500 to 23 000 cm-‘. We report high resolution, absolute absorption spectra with a noise equivalent sensitivity as low as 2 X 10m9/cm (recently improved to 7 X IO-“/cm). Band...

INTRODUCTION At times, it may be difficult to differentiate early stage, low-grade adrenocortical carcinoma from benign adrenal adenoma. CLINICAL PICTURE A 53-year-old lady underwent right adrenalectomy for a 4-cm adrenocortical tumour causing Cushing's syndrome. Histology revealed an adrenocortical adenoma. Sixteen years later, she presented with a 14-cm adrenal tumour, again on the right si...

461 of publication of this case and any accompanying photographs. A physical examination showed a huge tumoral lesion, oval in shape, situated in the central occipital area slightly to the left side with an irregular surface area. It was associated with ulceration as well as serous discharge but with no bleeding. The mass was solid in consistency, mobile, measuring about (21 cm×17 cm ×12 cm), a...