The AIM parameters at the ring critical point (the electron density and its Laplacian, the total electron energy density and both its components, potential and kinetic electron energy densities), have been intercorrelated with aromaticity indices: the geometry-based HOMA and the magnetism-based NICS, NICS(1), and NICS(1)(zz). A set of 33 phenylic rings having possibly a diversified aromatic cha...

Software/open routers, PCs (personal computers) running open-source OSs (operating systems) and equipped with Ethernet network interface cards (NICs), are receiving increasing attention in the research community, because they can offer multi-gigabit-per-second packet forwarding speed, performance comparable to those of low-to-medium end commercial routers. However, commercially available NICs l...

Twenty-eight antibiotics were tested with the Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay to determine their non-inhibitory concentrations (NICs). The Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay was found to be a valid test for most of the antibiotics tested; the NICs were found to be greater than the minimum valid test concentrations. Borderline results were obtained with cefamandole nafate and neomycin sulfate. Poly...

The fact that modern Networked Industrial Control Systems (NICS) depend on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), is well known. Although many studies have focused on the security of these systems, today we still lack the proper understanding of the effects that cyber attacks have on NICS. In this paper we use our previously developed framework to study the effects of network paramet...

Quercetin (QRC), a flavonoid found in foods and plants such as red wine, onions, green tea, apples, berries, possesses remarkable anti-inflammatory antioxidant properties. These properties make it effective combating cancer cells, reducing inflammation, protecting against heart disease, regulating blood sugar levels. To enhance the potential of inclusion complexes (ICs) containing β-cyclodextri...

Software/open routers, PCs (Personal Computers) running open source OSs (Operating Systems) and equipped with Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs), are receiving increasing attention in the research community, because they can offer multi-gigabit-persecond packet forwarding speed, performance comparable to those of low-medium end commercial routers. However, commercially available NICs lack ...

Modern high speed interconnects such as Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet have shifted the bottleneck in communication from the interconnect to the messaging software at the sending and receiving ends. The development of userlevel protocols and their implementations on smart and programmable network interface cards (NICs) have been alleviating this communication bottleneck. Most of the userlevel pro...

In the present study it was demonstrated that the NICS(zz)-scan patterns along with symmetry-based selection rules can unequivocally probe the antiaromaticity in a wide range of antiaromatic organic and inorganic rings/cages. The NICS(zz)-scan profiles typical of antiaromaticity correspond to symmetric curves around the axis perpendicular to the ring plane with the positive NICS(zz)(R) values d...

Scholars and policy makers have long debated the causes of the spectacular economic success achieved by the East Asian newly industrialisin g countries (NICs) as well as the lessons that other developing countries can learn from this development experience. Latin America started to industrialise many decades before the East Asian NICs and yet was quickly overtaken by them in the last few decade...

Part of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, www.unicamp.br), the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Sound Communication (NICS, www.nics.unicamp.br) was founded in 1983 by the composer Raul do Valle and collaborators. Since then, NICS has maintainined a longstanding list of participations in the academic and artistic musical scenario, specially the ones concerning the application of mathematical mode...