Minimum spanning tree problem is a very important problem in VLSI CAD. Given n points in a plane, a minimum spanning tree is a set of edges which connects all the points and has a minimum total length. A naive approach enumerates edges on all pairs of points and takes at least (n 2) time. More eecient approaches nd a minimum spanning tree only among edges in the Delaunay triangulation of the po...

OBJECTIVE To determine the number of fatalities related to roller coasters and examine factors common to multiple incidents. METHODS A case was defined as the death of a person, which was associated with a roller coaster in the United States between 15 May 1994 and 14 May 2004. Cases were identified from four DATA SOURCES (1) Consumer Product Safety Commission, (2) Lexis-Nexis, (3) Medline,...

The polymer solar cells were fabricated by a novel solution coating process, the roller painting. The roller painted film composed of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) has smoother surface than the spin coated film. Since the roller painting is accompanied with shear and normal stresses and is also a s low drying process, the process induces eff...

The first roller pump was patented in 1855 by Porter and Bradley and was hand operated. A modification first named "surgical pump", designed and manufactured by E. E. Allen in 1887, was intended for direct blood transfusion. Truax, who also distributed and promoted the Allen pump with one roller, developed the first double roller pump in 1899. In the following decades, several researchers, incl...

An on-farm field experiment on a locally adapted conservation tillage method was undertaken to evaluate its effect soil erosion, surface runoff, and agronomic parameters. It conducted five farmer fields with 3–14% slopes in the Rift Valley Eastern escarpment of Ethiopia’s central highlands region for two cropping seasons. The treatments were conventional (CT), repeated ploughing performed tradi...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective radiographic study. PURPOSE To evaluate the axial plane lumbar responses after anterior selective thoracic fusion (STF) in patients with main thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (MT-AIS). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Anterior scoliosis surgery induces more MT derotation through disc preparation than posterior surgery. METHODS Twenty-eight MT-AIS patients treate...

Abstract Rapid Access Ice Drill is a new drilling technology capable of quickly accessing the glacial bed Antarctic ice sheets, retrieving core and rock samples, providing boreholes for downhole logging physical properties. Scientific goals include searching old near sampling subglacial bedrock. During field trials McMurdo Station on piedmont glacier at Minna Bluff in 2019–20 austral summer, we...