Assessment of potential risks of complex contaminant mixtures in the environment requires integrated chemical and biological approaches. In support of the US Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the US Environmental Protection Agency lab in Duluth, MN, is developing these types of methods for assessing possible risks of aquatic contaminants in near-shore Great Lakes (USA) sites. One component in...

We present the next-to-leading order full results in Chiral Perturbation Theory for the charged Kaon K → 3π slope g CP violating asymmetries. We discuss the constraints that a measurement of these asymmetries would impose on the Standard Model results of ε K and search for new physics. We also study the kind of information that such measurement can provide on Im G8, Im (e GE) and higher order w...

Gryllophila cephalobulata n. sp. (Nematoda, Thelastomatidae) a parasite of the mole cricket Neocurtilla claraziana (Orthoptera, Gryllotalpidae) isolated in Buenos Aires Province, is described and illustrated. It is characterized by cuticle annulated all along the length of the body; the first ring has 4 lobules, the second one has 14 lobules, the others rings are simple, the stoma is short and ...

This chapter introduces a novel technique to evaluate composite power system reliability indices and their sensitivities with respect to the control parameters using a dynamically directed binary Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) search method. A key point in using PSO in power system reliability evaluation lies in selecting the weighting factors associated with the objective function. In this ...

The special selective drive (SSD) was conducted on a request from the Joint Director of Health Services (Leprosy and TB) Government of Maharashtra. The study team comprised the Foundation for Medical Research (FMR), assisted by a member of the Acworth Leprosy Hospital Society for Research, Rehabilitation and Education in Leprosy and two from Kushtrog Nivaran Samiti (KNS). The drive was conducte...

The fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) is a nest-building North American cyprinid that spawns multiply and exhibits exclusive male parental care. Here, we examined the effects of nest substrate availability on the genetic mating system in 2 natural populations from the glacial pothole region of eastern South Dakota. The sites differed dramatically with respect to the type and density of avail...

We apply results from recent theoretical work on networks of relations to analyze optimal peering strategies for asymmetric ISPs. It is shown that from a network of relations perspective – ISPs’ asymmetry in bilateral peering agreements need not be a problem, since when these form a closed network, asymmetries are pooled and information transmission is faster. Both these effects reduce the ince...

Federal agencies install many security controls for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) implementation. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-53 revision 4 (rev4) standardizes these security and privacy controls. This article presents a study of NIST SP 800-53 security controls. The purpose is to classify the security controls from di...

We investigate the effect of the temperature-size rule upon zooids of the tropical American bryozoan Cupuladria exfragminis. Results show that mean zooid length, zooid width and zooid area vary significantly between clonal replicates of C. exfragminis kept under different controlled temperature conditions. Significantly larger zooids are produced during times of lowered water temperature that a...