The relative risks of malignant lymphomas among road transport workers were investigated using the National Cancer Registry in England and Wales. Drivers of buses and coaches (OCC unit 120) had increased risks for both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and the drivers of other road passenger vehicles (OCC unit 121) for Hodgkin's lymphomas only. Although the increased risks did not show stat...

Representing emotions in agents is important for designing agents that behave like humans or are intended to interact with humans. OCC model, a descriptive emotion model, has been used widely as a standard for emotion synthesis, however it is also criticized for falling short on suggestions for what to do with the emotional states. PAD emotion scale, a numeric emotion measurement of emotions, s...

abstract one of the most frequently encountered cases of rapid varied flow is the hydraulic jump. it occurs when a supercritical open channel flow changes into sub critical flow. in the present research, the experimental study of the hydraulic jump on seven sinusoidal corrugated beds with different wave steepness. the wave steepness of sinusoidal corrugated beds is in the range of 0.1667 to 0.7...

A multi-set of N strings of length n is called a multi-track string. The permuted pattern matching is the problem that given two multi-track strings T = {t1, . . . , tN} of length n and P = {p1, . . . , pN} of length m, outputs all positions i such that {p1, . . . , pN} = {t1[i : i+m−1], . . . , tN [i : i+m−1]}We propose two new indexing structures for multi-track stings. One is a time-efficien...

In this paper, an improved modular multilevel converter (MMC) control strategy based on one-cycle control (OCC) is proposed. With the introduction of OCC, the stability, rapidity and disturbance rejection of MMC is greatly improved. Based on the volt-second equilibrium, the control is distributed to every single submodule (SM). For further stability, an unbalanced OCC strategy is designed based...

Studies aimed at the influence of smoking on reproductive functions have found out fertility disorders in smokers occurring at any stage of reproductive processes. In our experiments the role of cadmium, nicotine and anabasine was investigated in the expansion of oocyte-cumulus complexes (OCC) isolated from large antral porcine follicles. Suppression of FSH-induced cumulus expansion and signifi...

Two non-linear interpolation techniques are introduced for enhancing speech reproduction in Prototype Waveform Interpolation (PWI) and similar encoders. A Temporal Differential Rate (TDR) vector is used to characterise the non-uniform evolution of pitch cycle temporal structure during interpolation. Experimental results show a clear improvement in the accuracy of decoded pitch cycle lengths and...