Perhaps the defining issue of our time in history is the emergence of India and the People’s Republic of China as regional military superpowers. This is a direct by-product of large scale industrialisation, as the economies of these billion plus population base nations are able to support increasingly large and modern military force structures. Spare cash and national pride are often a volatile...

Giant foxtail (Setaria faberi) seeds differ in requirements for germination. Variable germinability arises during seed development under the influence of genotype, environment and parent plant. Giant foxtail seed germination has been shown to be regulated by independent asynchronous or dependent synchronous action of seed structures. To gain better insight into the process, germination was divi...

We introduce a class of supersymmetric cycles in spacetimes of the form AdS times a sphere or T 1,1 which can be considered as generalizations of the giant gravitons. Branes wrapped on these cycles preserve 12 , 1 4 or 1 8 of the supersymmetry. On the CFT side these configurations correspond to superpositions of the large number of BPS states. On leave from the Institute of Theoretical and Expe...

Abiotic and biotic factors determining the upper (shallow or nearshore) limit of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Agardh, were examined along a wave exposure gradient on the Monterey Peninsula, central California, USA. Wave modeling, analysis of aerial photographs from 1986 to 1989 and SCUBA surveys from 1993 to 1995 indicated a significant positive relationship between wave intensity and depth...

A small number of M-theory branes as giant gravitons in the M-theory sector of LLM geometry is studied as a probe. The abelian way shows that the low energy effective action for M-theory brane is exactly the 2d electron subject to a vertical magnetic field. We also briefly discuss the microscopic description of M2-brane giant graviton in this geometry, in the language of a combination of D0-bra...

In a shared-memory system, n independent asynchronous processes, with distinct names in the range f0; : : : ; N ? 1g, communicate by reading and writing to shared memory; processes operate at diierent speeds or fail entirely. A wait-free algorithm guarantees that a non-faulty process completes its execution regardless of the behavior of other processes, thus tolerating an arbitrary number of cr...

Identifying users frequent behaviors is considered as a key step to achieve real intelligent environments that support people in their daily lives. These patterns can be used in many different applications. An algorithm that compares current behaviors of the users with previously discovered frequent behaviors and detects shifts has been developed. In addition, it identifies the differences betw...

High order splitting schemes with complex timesteps are applied to Kolmogorov backward equations stemming from stochastic differential equations in Stratonovich form. In the setting of weighted spaces, the necessary analyticity of the split semigroups can be easily proved. A numerical example from interest rate theory, the CIR2 model, is considered. The numerical results are robust for drift-do...

The International Standard STEP (ISO 10303) is intended to facilitate the exchange of data between CAD systems. The first release of the standard, which occurred in 1994, allows the transfer of geometric product models in terms of geometry and topology alone. Since most CAD systems now allow the creation of parametric, constraint-based and feature based models, it is necessary to extend STEP to...