This study simultaneously varied experiences of recent victory or defeat, 2-hour familiarity with the meeting place, and hen weight in order to understand their combined effects on the establishment of dyadic dominance relationships between hens not previously acquainted with each other. Three kinds of encounters were arranged: (i) a previous winner unfamiliar with the meeting place met a previ...

Tbe bioenergetics and behaviour of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) wben feeding on a copper contaminated diet. Hamisb Alistair Campbell The long-term effects of sub-lethal dietary Cu-exposure were investigated in relation to consequential energy shifts and resultant locomotory adaptation in 0. mykiss. This study represents the first to attempt to quantifY the physiological cost of dietary h...

A novel GPS antenna for surveying applications is proposed. It is a fixed beam phased array of aperturecoupled slots optimized to receive a right hand polarized signal. The proposed antenna is made out of a single PCB board. Another PCB board is placed underneath the antenna to act as a reflector in order to reinforce the antenna directivity and reduce the back-lobe radiation. The radiation pat...

In this paper, we propose a fuzzy bandwidth allocation controller (FBAC) to support two types of services: (i) restricted time-bounded service (RTBS), such as voice and video services, (ii) loose time-bounded service (LTBS), such as data service in wireless networks. Base on the FBAC, five different request assignment strategies are introduced. Simulation results demonstrate that the fuzzy cont...

This demo presents an http-based client/server application prototype that facilitates internet access to Earth science dara. The client consists of a Java applet GUI that allows the user to select spatiab’temporal subsets of indexed datasets. The client also includes a MATLAB interface that ullows the incoming data to be loaded directly into a MATLAB session. The server provides directory, cata...

The achievable quality of control for a particular system (its dynamic resilience) is limited by the nonminimum phase characteristics of the plant, constraints on the manipulated variables and model uncertainty. Model uncertainty requires that the controller be detuned and performance be sacrificed. The goal of this paper is to quantify this well-known qualitative statement. The closed-loop sys...

Adcock, G.J. and Billing, T.M. and Carew, P.J. and Mulder, R.A. and Kraaijeveld, K. Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, VIC and Department of Biology, Darwin Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom Mate choice and dispersal history within a population of the mutually ornamented black swan. Dispersal and mating behaviour were examined in the Lake W...

Experimental data were acquired for a study of the effects of variable atmospheric path on the spectral signals obtained by remote sensors in the optical region of the spectrum. Multichannel optical-mechanical scanners which provide calibrated apparent spectral radiance data were flown over agricultural test sites, and passes were made at several different altitudes between 2000 and 10,000 ft. ...

The gap in the commercially-available pediatric drug products and formulations suitable for children, especially those below the age of 6 years, is long recognized. A group of clinicians and scientists with a common interest in pediatric drug development and medicines-use systems developed a practical framework for identifying a list of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with the greatest...

In this note we derive a simple necessary and sufficient condition for a stable system to exhibit an undershooting step response. Specifically, we show that undershoot occurs if and only if the plant has an odd number of real right-half plane zeros. Consider a lumped scalar system with a strictly proper transfer function p(s), and suppose the system is stable. Let y ( ) denote the step response...