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Understanding of fission properties super-heavy nuclei (SHN) is essential not only for the synthesis new elements but also astrophysical nucleosynthesis because fragments from SHN are recycled as seed r-process. A recent discovery r-process site by gravitational wave observations requires more precise nuclear information detailed simulation nucleosynthesis. However, mechanisms understood well, ...

We introduce a new concept of efficiency in vector optimization. This concept, super efficiency, is shown to have many desirable properties. In particular, we show that in reasonable settings the super efficient points of a set are norm-dense in the efficient frontier. We also provide a Chebyshev characterization of super efficient points for nonconvex sets and a scalarization theory when the u...

Super-peer topologies have been found efficient and effective in heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks. Due to dominant position of super-peers, super-peer selection requires a protocol that is aware of peer capacities. Lack of global information about other peers capacity and dynamic nature of peer-to-peer networks are two major challenges that impose uncertainty in decisionmaking. SG-1, is a we...

Hubble Space Telescope images of the core-collapse supernova remnant Cassiopeia A are used to identify highvelocity knots of ejecta located outside the remnant’s main emission shell of expanding debris. These ejecta fragments are found near or ahead of the remnant’s forward shock front and mostly lie from 12000 to 30000 in radial distance from the remnant’s center of expansion. Filter flux rati...

Manju K. Ahuja • Dennis F. Galletta • Kathleen M. Carley Kelley School of Business, Information Systems Department, Indiana University, 1309 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 Department of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 208 Porter Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 m...

One of the environmental issues in urban planning is finding a suitable site for constructing infrastructures such as water and wastewater treatment plants. There are numerous factors to be considered for this purpose, which make decision-making a complex task. We used an integrated fuzzy logic and multicriteria decision model to select a suitable site for establishing wastewater treatment plan...

The aim of this study was to further characterize the expression and function of human CYP2B6 in a recently generated CYP2A13/ 2B6/2F1-transgenic (TG) mouse model, in which CYP2B6 is expressed selectively in the liver. The inducibility of CYP2B6 by phenobarbital (PB) and dexamethasone (DEX), known inducers of CYP2B6 in human liver, was examined in the TG mice, as well as in TG/Cyp2abfgs-null (o...