This paper presents diversity factors recommended for use in energy simulation programs that require the input of hourly usage of electricity Jor lighting and receptacle loads relative to the installed lighting/equipment capacity. Typical weekday and weekend profiles are presented for small, medium, and large office buildings. The diversity profiles were developedfrom year-long records from 46 ...

The accuracy of the Surecell Chlamydia Test Kit (Kodak Clinical Products, Rochester, N.Y.) in detecting neonatal conjunctival infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis was determined by comparison of this enzyme immunoassay with the isolation of C. trachomatis in tissue culture. Kodak Surecell is a rapid monoclonal antibody-based membrane capture enzyme immunoassay which can be processed in the...

In this paper we describe our efforts in porting a global ocean model— the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model or MICOM—to clusters of symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs). This work extends our previous efforts in porting this same application to the massively parallel Cray T3D This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research under grant no. N00014-941-0846, by the National Science F...

To address the standardization issues of perceptually based image quality for printing systems, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC28, the standardization committee for office equipment chartered the W1.1 project with the responsibility of drafting a proposal for an international standard for the evaluation of printed image quality. One of the W1.1 task teams is chartered to address the issue of ”Gloss and Gloss U...

In Japan, FTTH users will soon overtake ADSL users [1], [2]. This means that the main technology of broadband access systems has moved from metallic systems such as ADSL to optical systems. PON (Passive Optical Network) is the most popular technology for optical broadband access systems because PON can provide optical access services at low cost by sharing transmission equipment [3]. However, P...

This paper reports on an experiment in which a Sun 3/50 workstation was used as a packet switch in a leased line based network. We conclude that the Sun is both capable and cost effective. • This work was supported in part by gnmts Iran the National &::iCJlee Foundation's Office. of Advanced Sc:iCJltifie Computing (NSF·851·8639), with addilional supportIrom Digital Equipment CoTpOllltion, CSNET...

In 1999 dr Petr Vlcek (Fig. 2) became the head of the Clinic and under his leadership the Clinic continues its diagnostic, therapeutic, scientific and pedagogic work. Since 2001 the Clinic has housed the Centre for thyroid oncology and endocrine orbitopathy of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, which covers the whole Czech Republic. All the equipment and procedures fulfill the con...

OBJECTIVE This article reviews the evidence on the relationship between recent increases in utilization of diagnostic imaging and self-referral. The evidence shows that self-referral invariably leads to higher utilization and the attendant higher costs. CONCLUSION Because most physicians do not own advanced imaging equipment, their own best interests are being thwarted by the practice of self...

Let Nk(n, r,a) denote the number of incongruent solutions of the quadratic congruence a1x 2 1+ · · ·+akxk ≡ n (mod r), where a = (a1, . . . , ak) ∈ Zk, n ∈ Z, r ∈ N. We give short direct proofs for certain less known compact formulas on Nk(n, r,a), valid for r odd, which go back to the work of Minkowski, Bachmann and Cohen. We also deduce some other related identities and asymptotic formulas wh...