Until 6 October 2005 sixteen redshifts have been measured of long gamma-ray bursts discovered by the Swift satellite. Further 45 redshifts have been measured of the long gamma-ray bursts discovered by other satellites. Here we perform five statistical tests comparing the redshift distributions of these two samples assuming as the null hypothesis identical distribution for the two samples. Three...

Recently introduced 3D radial MRI pulse sequence entitled Multi-Band SWeep Imaging with Fourier Transformation (MB-SWIFT) having virtually zero acquisition delay was used to obtain functional MRI (fMRI) contrast in rat's brain at 9.4 T during deep brain stimulation (DBS). The results demonstrate that MB-SWIFT allows functional images free of susceptibility artifacts, and provides an excellent f...

The Swift gamma-ray burst explorer was launched on Nov. 20, 2004 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first instrument onboard became fully operational less than a month later. Since that time the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on Swift has detected more than 180 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), most of which have also been observed within two minutes by the Swift narrow-field instruments: the X-Ray Telescop...

Results are presented of early X-ray afterglow observations of GRB 060105 by Swift and Suzaku. The bright, long gamma-ray burst GRB 060105 triggered the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) at 06:49:28 on 5 January 2006. The Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) started pointed observations 87 s after the trigger (T0). The Suzaku team commenced a pre-planned target of opportunity observation at 19 ks (5.3 hr)

The measured redshifts of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which were first detected by the Swift satellite, seem to be bigger on average than the redshifts of GRBs detected by other satellites. We analyzed the redshift distribution of GRBs triggered and observed by different satellites (Swift[1], HETE2[2], BeppoSax, Ulyssses). After considering the possible biases significant difference was found at t...

Fig.4 Images of a tooth at different intensity scale and resolution phantom and a piece of rubber (red arrows) obtained by SWIFT and gm=0.8 for GM-SWIFT. 1721 Gradient-modulated SWIFT for SAR reduction and controlled short-T2* sensitivity Jinjin Zhang, Djaudat Idiyatullin, Curtis Corum, Naoharu Kobayashi, and Michael Garwood Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minne...

the task of building adaptive system software relies on wizardry. Feedback controls for such software systems are written in an ad-hoc manner and are often brittle. As a result, it is difficult to move an existing control, such as TCP flow control [1], to a new domain such as admission control for CPU scheduling. In addition , existing controls are built with implicit assumptions about the syst...

On 23 November 1981, the Packers Consent Decree of 1920 was terminated on the joint motion of the Justice Department and Swift Independent Packing Company. This ended a long legal battle that began shortly after the decree was signed. The decree, agreed to by the old Big Five (Armour, Cudahy, Morris, Swift, and Wilson), became progressively less effective as the meatpacking industry evolved. By...