Cholinesterase Activity in Female Greenhouse Workers—Influence of Work Practices and Use of Oral Contraceptives: Jesper B NIELSEN, et al. Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark—Objectives—Associations between serum butyryl cholinesterase activity in female greenhouse workers and information from a questionnaire on work, use of personal protective equipment, and lifestyle were ev...

This paper presents a review of QoS (Quality of Service) Routing algorithms and proposes the implementation of QoS Routing in pre-configured Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) based optical networks. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm performs better than previous ones in terms of connection establishment time whilst maintaining near-optimal blocking probability...

Wind loads on structures under the buffeting action of wind gusts have traditionally been treated by the ‘‘gust loading factor’’ (GLF) method in most major codes and standards around the world. In this scheme, the equivalent-static wind loading used for design is equal to the mean wind force multiplied by the GLF. Although the traditional GLF method ensures an accurate estimation of the displac...

Warehouse scale datacenters running complex applications involving many servers require low latency interconnects to avoid excessive delays to the user. The SPINet(Scalable Photonic Interconnection Network) architecture can dynamically support ultralow latencies for packetized light loads and high-bandwidth long flows under heavy traffic.

Some important developments have occurred since April 2014, when I first submitted this article for publication. Because the two-volume set of Festschrift contributions in which this article was recently published is not available online, I have decided (with permission of those involved in the Festschrift) to have my own article posted on the website of the University of Kansas Law School (www...

End-to-end automated application design and deployment poses a significant technical challenge. With increasing scale and complexity of IT systems and the manual handling of existing scripts and configuration files for application deployment that makes them increasingly error-prone and brittle, this problem has become more acute. Even though design tools have been used to automated system desig...

Seagrasses around the world are threatened by human activities that degrade water quality and reduce light availability. In this study, light requirements were determined for four common and abundant seagrasses along the Gulf coast of peninsular Florida using a threshold detecting algorithm. Light requirements ranged from 8% to 10% of surface irradiance for Halophila engelmannii to 25-27% of su...

This paper presents results from an investigation on a special optical fiber as a load sensor for application in Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) systems to measure wheel loads of vehicles traveling at normal speed on highways. The fiber used has a unique design with two concentric light guiding regions of different effective optical path lengths, which has the potential to enable direct measurement of ma...

Parallel corpora are the bread and butter of a number of machine translation technologies. Therefore, important efforts are regularly spent in acquiring new ones. This task often involves a rather cumbersome manual inspection and it is rather difficult to set up a strategy that fits all the needs. We thus developed PARADOCS, a system aiming at doing this automatically. Our solution exploits num...