Call packing has been recognized as a routing scheme thatsignificantly reduces the blocking probability of connection requests ina circuit-switched Clos multistage interconnection network. In this briefcontribution, for the first time, we develop general analytical models forthe point-to-point blocking probability of the call-packing scheme appliedto Clos networks. By introd...

BACKGROUND High levels of exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) are a marker of airway or lung inflammation. We investigated whether hypo- or hyperventilation can affect measured values. METHODS Ten healthy volunteers were trained to achieve sustained end-tidal CO2 (etCO(2)) concentrations of 30 (hyperventilation), 40 (normoventilation), and 50 mmHg (hypoventilation). As soon as target etCO(2) values...

Background: To date, although multiple molecular approaches have illustrated the various aspects of Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome plus (APS SLE), no study has so far fully characterized potential role posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms such as alternative splicing. Objectives: identify shared differential changes...

Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) is charact erized by a unique combination of extremely low permeability, high strength and deformability. Extensive R&D works and applications over the last 10 years have demonstrated that cast on site UHPFRC is a fast, efficient and price competitive method for the repair/re habilitation of existing structures. More recently, an origina...

Eco-driving is a driving style that can significantly reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emission. Current methods for eco-driving practice are inefficient or not easily accessible. Therefore, we introduce iCO2, an online multi-user three-dimensional (3D) ecodriving training space, which was developed in Unity3D and made available as a Facebook application since September 2012. In iCO2, agents are...

Number: 007-0582 Abstract Title: A Closed-loop Supply Chain Model for Managing Overall Optimization of Eco-efficiencyTitle: A Closed-loop Supply Chain Model for Managing Overall Optimization of Eco-efficiency Authors: Name: Wei D. Solvang, Ziqiong Deng, Bjoern Solvang Organization: Department of Industrial Engineering, Narvik University College, Norway Address: Lodve Langes gate 2, pb. 385, N-8...

1 Cray Japan, Inc., 41-12 Nihonbashi, Hakozaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0015, Japan 2 Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan 3 Protonic NanoMachine Project, ERATO, JST, 1-7 Hikaridai, Seika, Souraku, Kyoto 619-0237, Japan 4 RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan 5 National Institut...

scientists call pasture a natural eco-system and range is an agricultural eco-system. in this point of view although pasture that was full of plants growing by itself and not growing by human being (pirdashti, 2007; mohgadam, 2005) and two groups of living beings such as human being, plants, domesticated, and not living being like weather, wind, gradient which are effective in making of pasture...