1. BALANCING NUMBERS We call an Integer n e Z a balancing number if 1+ 2+ --+ (»l ) = (w + l) + (w + 2) +••• + (» + >•) (1) for some r e Z. Here r is called the balancer corresponding to the balancing number n. For example, 6, 35, and 204 are balancing numbers with balancers 2, 14, and 84, respectively. It follows from (1) that, if n is a balancing number with balancer r, then n2^(n + r)(n + r ...

Balancer chromosomes are critical tools for Drosophila genetics. Many useful transgenes are inserted onto balancers using a random and inefficient process. Here we describe balancer chromosomes that can be directly targeted with transgenes of interest via recombinase-mediated cassette exchange (RMCE).

The subject of this article is network management through web service calls, which allows software applications to exert an influence on network traffic. In this manner, software can make independent decisions concerning the direction of requests so that they can be served as soon as possible. This is important because only proper cooperation including all architecture layers can ensure the bes...

This Open Access book constructs a theory of institutional strategy to explain ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics East Asia.

Cloud, fog and dew computing concepts offer elastic resources that can serve scalable services. These resources can be scaled horizontally or vertically. The former is more powerful, which increases the number of same machines (scaled out) to retain the performance of the service. However, this scaling is tightly connected with the existence of a balancer in front of the scaled resources that w...

Unbalanced currents, low power factor and high losses contribute to increasing the bill infrastructure managers must pay TSO/DSO operator that supplies electric energy railway system. Additionally, if regenerative coming from braking regimes is not allowed be injected into grid or even penalized when it occurs, then optimization of those parameters pursued. One possible measures can taken count...

In many industrial applications imbalance is a major cause for unwanted vibrations. One way to compensate for an unknown imbalance is the implementation of an automatic ball balancer. Oil-lubricated automatic ball balancers are applied in hand-held tools and washers. However, in applications such as optical drives fluid lubrication is highly undesirable since it may destroy the optical system u...

In multi-server distributed queueing systems, the access of stochastically arriving jobs to resourcesis often regulated by a dispatcher, also known as load balancer. A fundamental problem consists indesigning a load balancing algorithm that minimizes the delays experienced by jobs. During the last twodecades, the power-of-d-choice algorithm, based on the idea of dispatching each...