In previous work, we have shown how to use unified modeling language (UML) as the primary representation mechanism to model conceptual design, logical design, modeling of extraction, transformation, loading (ETL) processes, and defining online analytical processing (OLAP) requirements of data warehouses (DW). Continuing our work on using UML throughout the DW development lifecycle, in this chap...

Spintronic devices currently rely on magnetic switching or controlled motion of domain walls (DWs) by an external magnetic field or a spin-polarized current. Controlling the position of DW is essential for defining the state/information in a magnetic memory. During the process of nanowire fabrication, creating an off-set of two parts of the device could help to pin DW at a precise position. Mic...

The dynamics of fluid-borne superparamagnetic bead transport by field-driven domain walls (DWs) in submicrometer ferromagnetic tracks is studied experimentally together with numerical and analytical modeling. A combination of micromagnetic modeling and numerical calculation is used to determine the strength of bead-DW interaction for a range of track geometries and bead sizes. The maximum DW ve...

In this paper we investigate Donder-Weyl (DW) Hamilton-Jacobi equations and establish the connection between DW Hamilton-Jacobi equations and multi-symplectic Hamiltonian systems. Based on the study of DW Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we present the generating functions for multi-symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta (PRK) methods.

In addition to stimulating GH release, GH secretagogues such as GH-releasing peptide-6 (GHRP-6) stimulate small amounts of ACTH and PRL release. Although the effects on ACTH have recently been studied, there is little information about the effects of GHRP-6 on PRL. We have now studied GHRP-6-induced GH and PRL release and their regulation by estrogen (E2) in anesthetized male and female rats an...

The effect of irrigation with lake water containing a variety of microcystins on accumulation of toxins, or toxin metabolites, and plant growth in ryegrass, clover, rape, and lettuce, was investigated in a glasshouse experiment. The plants were grown in sand culture and received either three or six applications of lake water, which was applied either directly to the sand surface or to the plant...

This article reports the organ distribution and bioaccumulation of hepatotoxic microcystins (MCs) in freshwater fishes at different trophic levels from the large, shallow, eutrophic Lake Chaohu in September 2003, when there were heavy surface blooms of toxic cyanobacteria. Among all fish, intestines and blood had the highest average content of MC-RR + MC-LR (22.0 and 14.5 microg g(-1) DW, respe...

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