To improve the low aerodynamic efficiency and reduce high energy consumption of a single-stage circulation control wing, multistage wing was designed. By combining force measurement particle image velocimetry (PIV), flow-field characteristics an aerofoil were investigated with respect to increase in number blowing slots, changes coefficient, different ratios for three slots. The results reveale...

channel is busy idle slots idle slots This paper analyzes the performance of IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol under a disaster scenario. The performance is measured in terms of the recovery time and the throughput of the protocol when a network disaster occurs. To make the problem amenable to analysis, some approximations are used, and a new technique to collapse a very large state space is introduced....

A scaling theory is applied in order to calculate the temperature dependence of the staggered magnetic susceptibility associated with the anti-ferromagnetism observed in high-temperature superconductors. In a logarithmic approximation, only a summation of the leading square logarithmic terms are taken into account, assuming the parquet approximation. We show that scaling theory can be applied t...

In the context of observational longitudinal studies, we explored the values of the number of participants and the number of repeated measurements that maximize the power to detect the hypothesized effect, given the total cost of the study. We considered two different models, one that assumes a transient effect of exposure and one that assumes a cumulative effect. Results were derived for a con...

Due to the lasting growth in air traffic, many international airports have reached their capacity limits. Access major is granted through assignment of airport time slots. Current practices allocating these slots via grandfathering are widely regarded as inefficient by experts. New market mechanisms need take into account synergistic valuations airlines for departure and arrival slots, well fin...

(75)As and (31)P NMR studies are performed in PrCoAsO and NdCoPO respectively. The Knight shift data in PrCoAsO indicate the presence of an antiferromagnetic interaction between the 4f moments along the c axis in the ferromagnetic state of Co 3d moments. We propose a possible spin structure in this system. The (75)As quadrupolar coupling constant, νQ, increases continuously with decrease of tem...

We treated 12 patients with multilevel stenosis of the cervical canal after spondylosis or ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament by an expansive open-door laminoplasty, stabilised by using an anchor system. The preoperative sagittal diameter of the canal was 9.8 mm(+/-2.2) which was increased to 16.1 mm(+/-2.9) after surgery. The mean expansion ratio of the canal was 64% (42 to 10...

Dear Editor, Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF) are performed for decompression of the spine when the primary compressive pathology lies anterior to the spinal cord – prolapsed intervertebral discs (PID), ossifi ed posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), spondylodiscitis and retropulsion of fractured bony fragments. More specifi cal...