The permeation of technology into our daily lives has resulted in new types of criminal activity and new ways of committing old crimes. As with traditional crime, fundamental to the apprehension of offenders that have adopted technology, is the ability to identify the magnitude of the incident, assess its importance and response in a timely and appropriate manner. Over the past decade many auth...

The local dispersal of polyphagous, mobile insects within agricultural systems impacts pest management. In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, stink bugs, especially the invasive Halyomorpha halys (Stål 1855), contribute to economic losses across a range of cropping systems. Here, we characterized the density of stink bugs along the field edges of field corn and soybean at different s...

Northeastern U.S. farms are often situated adjacent to forestland due to the heterogeneous nature of the landscape. We investigated how forested areas influence Carabidae diversity within nearby crop fields by establishing transects of pitfall traps. Trapping extended across a forest-agriculture ecotone consisting of maize, an intermediate mowed grass margin, and a forest edge. Carabidae divers...

‎let $g$ be a graph and $chi^{prime}_{aa}(g)$ denotes the minimum number of colors required for an‎ ‎acyclic edge coloring of $g$ in which no two adjacent vertices are incident to edges colored with the same set of colors‎. ‎we prove a general bound for $chi^{prime}_{aa}(gsquare h)$ for any two graphs $g$ and $h$‎. ‎we also determine‎ ‎exact value of this parameter for the cartesian product of ...

A four-dimensional deformable motion algorithm is described for use in the motion compensation of gated cardiac positron emission tomography. The algorithm makes use of temporal continuity and a non-uniform elastic material model to provide improved estimates of heart motion between time frames. Temporal continuity is utilized in two ways. First, incremental motion fields between adjacent time ...

ABSTRACT The paper describes common issues faced designing GaAs HBT Power Amplifiers for 2G CDMA handsets & how to solve them. Common issues developed are non-linear noise performance, current consumption & ACPR at all power levels, Icq versus temperature, all related to the bias circuit. Then requirements more specific to 2.5G applications are explored, solutions for better Icq control, Effici...