member of the weak-isospin doublet containing the bottom quark (see our review on the \Standard Model of Electroweak Interactions" for more information). This note summarizes its currently measured properties, and provides a discussion of the experimental and theoretical issues involved in the determination of its parameters (mass, production cross section, decay branching ratios, etc.). B. Top...

Abstract The aim of the present study is to explore strategies in enumerating units three dimensional (3D) arrays. We analyse enumeration students grade 3 (ages 8 9) situations cubical and spherical representations 3D By exploring students’ these two situations, we find that difficulties arrays can be traced units-locating, with consequence applying double triple counting. Our results also indi...

In the 1990s, the government of Senegal implemented a series of policy changes for the provision of family planning services through the public sector. A strategy to provide high quality services through reference centres was adopted. This paper presents findings from a longitudinal survey of 1,320 Senegalese women who had sought family planning services at ten public sector facilities--five re...

Fraunhofer FOKUS – Institute for Open Communication Systems, [email protected] Siemens AG, Information and Communication Mobile,Germany, [email protected] The University of Surrey, Centre for Communication Systems Research, UK, [email protected] Ericsson Research, Corporate Unit, Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland, Germany, [email protected] RWTH Aachen, ...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) offers high data rate and supports high data rate applications. Although OFDM has advantages over traditional communication models but it frequently suffers from PAPR. PAPR is concerned area in OFDM from two decades and vast amount of research is carried out in literature. Selective Mapping remains as effective PAPR reduction approach and in pro...

We present an overview of our recent progress toward the development of segmented X-ray mirrors for the Constellation-X mission. Our reference design incorporates thin glass reflector substrates, with axially curved X-ray reflecting surfaces applied via epoxy replication. Alignment is accomplished via a precision structure incorporating ultraprecise etched Si alignment microstructures (as descr...

A 46-year-old man with untreated type 2 diabetes visited our hospital. His plasma glucose and HbA 1c levels were 429 mg/dL and 11.5%, respectively. He had no renal dysfunction. Insulin therapy (18 units aspart and 22 units biphasic insulin aspart 30/70) was initiated, and the HbA 1c level improved (5.7–6.4%). One year later, he started experiencing frequent hypoglycemic attacks , which persiste...

Educational Modelling Languages (EMLs) have been proposed to enable the authoring of models of learning units (e.g., courses, lessons, lab practices, seminars) covering the broad variety of pedagogical approaches. In addition, some EMLs have been proposed as computational languages that support the processing of learning unit models by appropriate Learning Management Systems (LMSs). In this con...

In this contribution we describe a corpus-based text-to-speech system for Galician. While traditional concatenative speech-synthesis systems generally employ a quite reduced set of speech units, corpus-based synthesis systems consider many instances of every unit and, by means of dynamic programming techniques, select the sequence of units that minimizes a cost function. With reference to proso...

A large multicenter cohort study, the DAI study, is being performed on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are followed by diabetic care units in Italy, to study the prevalence and incidence of myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, coronary artery bypass, coronary angioplasty, cerebral thromboembolism, and amputations. The reference population consists of all patients visited at...