With the rise of the Internet, the number of information processing systems has significantly increased in many fields of daily life. To enable commodity products to communicate, socalled embedded computing systems are integrated into these products. However, many of these small systems need to satisfy strict application requirements with respect to cost-efficiency and performance. In some case...

Controversy exists over estimation of ecological risk in biological control. At present, the risk to the rare, federally listed Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in North America from Rhinocyllus conicus, a biological control weevil now feeding on many native thistles, is unknown. We hypothesized that quantification of host specificity and potential phenological overlap between insect and pl...

background :the ccr5 is a chemokine receptor that serves as a co-receptor for hiv-1 attachment and entry to t lymphocytes. a 32bp deletion (∆32) in this gene is believed to be associated with resistance to infection and delay disease progression. the aim of this study was to determine the ∆32 allele frequency in healthy individuals and hiv-infected individuals with aids.   methods : in this exp...

E A C H Y E A R the Board of Trustees of the Federal o ld-age a n d survivors Insurance trust fund is required to subm i t to Congress a report dealing with the past and prospective operations and status of the trust fund. These reports were first required by the S o cial Security Act Amendments of 1939, and in accordance wi th these amendm e n t s the first report was submitted in January 1941...

 The category of the title is called $mathcal{W}$. This has all free objects $F(I)$ ($I$ a set). For an object class $mathcal{A}$, $Hmathcal{A}$ consists of all homomorphic images of $mathcal{A}$-objects. This note continues the study of the $H$-closed monoreflections $(mathcal{R}, r)$ (meaning $Hmathcal{R} = mathcal{R}$), about which we show ({em inter alia}): $A in mathcal{A}$ if and  only if...

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