In spite of the recognition of potentially toxic chemicals in chlorinated drinking water, few studies have evaluated reproductive health consequences of such exposure. Using data from a case-control study of miscarriage, preterm delivery, and low birth weight in central North Carolina, we evaluated risk associated with water source, amount, and trihalomethane (THM) concentration. Water source w...

A bstmct-A new efficient algorithm for bounded-distance decoding of the Leech la t t ice is presented. The algori thm decodes correctly at least ulp to the guaranteed error-correction radius of the Leech lattice. The proposed decoder is based on projecting the points of the Leech lattice onto the codewords of the (6,3,4) quar te rnary code, the hezacode Ne. Project ion on the hexacode induces p...

We propose a projection-based monolithic model order reduction procedure for class of problems in nonlinear mechanics with internal variables. The work is motivated by applications to thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) systems radioactive waste disposal. THM equations the behavior temperature, pore water pressure, and solid displacement neighborhood geological repositories, which contain are respons...

We compute the index of contact p(Z; S)(c) of a set Z with a submanifold S at a point c 2 reg(Z \S) at which Z is normal pseudo-at along Z \ S (Thm 4.1, Cor. 4.4).

Bangladesh’s heavy minerals deposits in river systems remain largely unexplored with past research restricted to beach placer along the south-eastern coastline of country. In this study, 64 samples were collected from stable sand bars northern Brahmaputra River. The average total (THM) all sample sites was 10.73 wt%, THM concentrations generally highest at outermost edges and lowest within mid-...

The objective of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of a magnetic ion exchange resin (MIEX) to enhance the coagulation of disinfection by-product precursors in nine surface waters, each representing a different element of the USEPA's 3 x 3 enhanced coagulation matrix. The effect of MIEX-pretreatment on the requisite alum dose needed for subsequent coagulation of turbidity was a...

The effects of L-158,809, an angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist, on cardiac hypertrophy and nephropathy were examined using Tsukuba hypertensive mice (THM) carrying both human renin and angiotensinogen genes. Nine male THM aged 20 weeks were assigned to each of a no-dosage group and an L-158,809 dosage group, and L-158,809 was administered for 8 weeks. Nine age-matched male C57BL/6 mice ...

AbstructThis paper presents a novel complexityscalable technique t o reduce t h e memory costs of a n M P E G 2 decoder by a factor of four t o six, by recompressing t h e Ia n d P-reference pictures prior t o motioncompensated reconstruction. T h e proposed scheme feat u re s some unique characterist ics, like robustness for multiple encodings and high memory a n d memorybandwidth reduction fa...

In this paper , we prove the first approximate max-flow min-cut theorem for undirected mul t i commodi ty flow. We show tha t for a feasible flow to exist in a mul t icommodi ty problem, it is sufficient t ha t every cut ' s capacity exceeds its demand by a factor of O(logClogD), where C is the sum of all finite capacities and D is the sum of demands . Moreover, our theorem yields an a lgor i t...