Abstract The aerodynamical optimal design (OD) of the shape of flying configurations (FCs) can be improved by refinements of its start software used for the optimization and of the optimization strategy itself. The author has two times enlarged the classical variational method. The first one consists in the inviscid global OD of the FC’s shape (the optimization of the camber, twist, thickness a...

1. The effects of restricted feeding, and ad lib. feeding following food restriction, on hepatic carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in the laying hen were studied. 2. The birds were allocated to four groups and given either 92, 84 or 75 g/d or allowed ad lib. access to food. 3. Food restriction significantly reduced liver total lipid content compared with ad lib.-fed control birds and this was r...

In this paper we present a floating-Gate differential amplifier input stage with tunable gain. The input stage can be used in a differential ultra lowvoltage (ULV) floating gate (FG) transconductance amplifier. Measured data for the subcircuits operating at 0.8V, 0.5V and 0.3V are provided.

PSstract: In the recent case of Nike v. Kasky both sides argued that their standard for distinguishing commercial speech from political speech would create the better policy for ensuring accurate and complete disclosure of social information by corporations. Using insights from information economics, we argue that neither standard will achieve the policy goal of optimal truthful disclosure. Ins...

Figure 1. Approximate distribution of harbor porpoise in the U.S. Pacific Northwest (shaded area). Stock boundaries separating the stocks are shown. STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE In the eastern North Pacific Ocean, the harbor porpoise ranges from Point Barrow, along the Alaskan coast, and down the west coast of North America to Point Conception, California (Gaskin 1984). Harbor porpoise...

Fish mortality and hypoxic events occur in many coastal and inland systems and may result from natural or anthropogenically mediated processes. The effects of consequent changes in water biogeochemistry have been investigated for communities of benthic invertebrates and pelagic metazoans. The responses of micro-plankton assemblages, however, have remained largely unstudied. The northern basin o...

This study investigates risk factor disclosures under the voluntary, incentive-based disclosure regime provided by the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the SEC’s subsequent disclosure mandate. Firms subject to greater litigation risk disclose more risk factors, update the language more from year-to-year, and use more readable language than firms with low...