Networks Chao-Ju Hou and Kar Shun Tsoi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706-1691 [email protected] Abstract The Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) protocol has been jointly adopted by IEEE and ANSI as a standard (IEEE802.6) for metropolitan area networks (MANs). As such, how to provide various services in the DQDB protocol has attracted ...

Reactions and luminescence in passivated Si nanocrystallites induced by vacuum ultraviolet and soft-x-ray photons Journal Article How to cite: Chao, Y.; Krishnamurthy, S.; Montalti, M.; Lie, L. H.; Houlton, A.; Horrocks, B. R.; Kjeldgaard , L.; Dhanak, V. R.; Hunt, M. R. C. and Šiller, L. (2005). Reactions and luminescence in passivated Si nanocrystallites induced by vacuum ultraviolet and soft...

6 Laura K. Richman , Jian-Chao Zong , Erin M. Latimer 2 , Justin Lock , Robert 7 Fleischer , Sarah Y. Heaggans 1 and Gary S. Hayward 1# 8 9 10 (1) Viral Oncology Program, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins School 11 of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 12 and 13 (2) National Elephant Herpesvirus Laboratory, Pathology Department, and (3) Center for Conservation Ecology ...

Wei Lu 1,*, Jun Teng 1,2, Chao Li 1 and Yan Cui 1 1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen 518055, China; [email protected] (J.T.); [email protected] (C.L.); [email protected] (Y.C.) 2 College of Civil Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118, China * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel: +...

In this paper a queueing system with partial correlation is considered. We assume that the amount of work (service time) brought in by a customer and the subsequent interarrival time are dependent. We show that in this case stronger dependence between interarrival and service times leads to decreasing waiting times in the increasing convex ordering sense. This generalizes a result of Chao (Oper...

C. F. Huang, S. D. Chao, and D. R. Hang 1Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C. 2National Measurement Laboratory, Center for Measurement Standards, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, R. O. C. 3 Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C. 4 Department of Materials Science and Optoelectronic ...

1 Background In many regions, electricity demand varies significantly based on time of day. The difference in electricity demand between peak and off-peak time periods has increased annually in Japan.1 A decreased load factor implies a high adjustment of electricity supply. Thus, electricity suppliers must increase the electricity price, which might lead to a decrease in consumer welfare. To re...

Hao Zhang, Chao Wang & Xiumin Zhang College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University Harbin 150001, China E-mail: [email protected] Abstract In this article, we develop a prediction model of China population growth, and notice that the modified index curve is a sort of curve that possesses the growth limit K in the statistics, which is the same with the problem...

Ergodicity of Adaptive MCMC and its Applications Chao Yang Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Statistics University of Toronto 2008 Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (MCMC) and Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (AMCMC) are most important methods of approximately sampling from complicated probability distributions and are widely used in statistics, computer science, chemist...

The central nervous system (CNS) macrophages, the microglia, are the primary immune cells in the brain. Microglia secrete a variety of substances that contribute to both neuroprotection and neurotoxicity (Chao et al., 1995; Gebicke-Haerter et al., 1996; Zhang and Fedoroff, 1996), as well as to synaptic plasticity (Schoen and Kreutzberg, 1994). During neonatal development microglia display an am...