In the redshift range z = 0−1, the gamma ray burst (GRB) redshift distribution should increase rapidly because of increasing differential volume sizes and strong evolution in the star formation rate. This feature is not observed in the Swift redshift distribution and to account for this discrepancy, a dominant bias, independent of the Swift sensitivity, is required. Furthermore, despite rapid l...

Swift foxes (Vulpes velox) and coyotes (Canis latrans) are sympatric canids distributed throughout many regions of the Great Plains of North America. The prevalence of canid diseases among these two species where they occur sympatrically is presently unknown. From January 1997 to January 2001, we collected blood samples from 89 swift foxes and 122 coyotes on the US Army Piñon Canyon Maneuver Si...

Several correlations among observables derived from modelling the high-energy properties of GRBs have been reported in the literature. We show that well-known examples of these have common features indicative of an origin in selection effects. In particular, we focus here on the possible origin of the Epk-Eiso correlation in Swift data due to detector threshold truncation. The existence of fain...

BACKGROUND Timely provision of an ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) orthotist customized for individuals early after stroke can be problematic. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a therapist-made AFO (SWIFT Cast) for walking recovery. METHODS This was a randomized controlled, observer-blind trial. Participants (n = 105) were recruited 3 to 42 days poststroke. All received conventional physical t...

The Swift VO architecture is designed to provide high data rates in support of multimedia type applications in general-purpose distributed environments through the use of distributed striping. Strþing techniques place sections of a single logical data space onto multiple physical devices. The original Swift prototype was designed to validate the architecture, but did not provide fault tolerance...

We present an I/O architecture, called Swift, that addresses the problem of data-rate mismatches between the requirements of an application, the maximum data-rate of the storage devices, and the data-rate of the interconnection medium. The goal of Swift is to support integrated continuous multimedia in general purpose distributed systems. In installations with a high-speed interconnection mediu...