The growth in the amount of information available on the Internet and thousands of user queries per second brings huge challenges to the index update and query processing of search engines. Index compression is partially responsible for the current performance achievements of existing search engines. The selection of the index compression algorithms must weigh three factors, i.e., compression r...

Peatland-inhabiting testate amoebae are sensitive indicators of substrate-moisture conditions and have increasingly been used in palaeohydrological studies. However, to improve accuracy of testate-amoeba-based hydrological inferences, baseline ecological data on rare taxa, a larger geographic network of calibration sites, and incorporation of long-term estimates of water-table depth are needed....

Rapid preparation of the trauma patient for early transfer is crucial for optimal outcome. Working together with the staff of the receiving trauma center will ensure that a consistent treatment approach is given to all injured patients. A pretransfer checklist is often helpful (Table 3), and can be made in partnership with your regional trauma center. Preparing a patient for transfer will not v...

Several interaction techniques have been proposed to enable transfer of information between different displays in heterogeneous multi-display environments. However, it is not clear whether subjective user preference for these different techniques depends on the nature of the displays between which information is transferred. We explore subjective usability of speech, touch and gesture for movin...

p-N,N-dimethyl phenylene diamine(DMPD) is oxidized with Iodine into p-N,N-dimehylbenzoquinonemonoimine which can form a purple –red charge –transfer complex with aromatic primary amine (APA) at pH 3.0 . The absorbance of the p-N,Ndimehylbenzoquinonemonoimine – APA charge-transfer complex is measured at 520nm. This proposed method is simple, rapid and sensitive with reasonable precision and accu...

An extensive reasoned review of the results available in the literature for free convection heat transfer from a heated flat plate facing upwards, is conducted. The review is organized in the form of a table, so as to give the reader the opportunity to compare the heat transfer data, expressed through dimensionless equations, as well as the conditions under which these data were obtained. A com...

Patients with stable slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) usually can ambulate at the time of diagnosis. Satisfactory results have been reported after percutaneous in situ pinning using a fracture table. The authors describe a technique to determine the skin-pin entry point for percutaneous pinning of the hip on a regular radiolucent operating table. The pin entry point determined by this m...