Crystallization and morphological features of syndiotactic-b-atactic polystyrene stereodiblock copolymers (sPS-b-aPS), atactic/syndiotactic polystyrene blends (aPS/sPS), and aPS/sPS blends modified with sPS-b-aPS, with different compositions in aPS and sPS, have been investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarized light optical microscopy (POM) and wide angle X-ray diffrac...

We present an approach to joint application of spectral subtraction (SPS) and model combination (PMC) for speech recognition in noisy environments. Contrary to previous solutions e.g. [2] distortion introduced by SPS is not modeled in PMC. Instead we ensure compatibility of the two methods by adapting parameters of SPS (spectral floor and overestimation factor) according to the present signalto...

Software Process Simulation (SPS) has been evolving in the last decades and gained researchers’ and practitioners’ interests in software process community. However, the growth of SPS seems slow down in recent years, and the evidence for its benefits to industrial practice is not commonly reported as expected. SPS still awaits a breakthrough success. This special panel aims to initiate a discuss...

INTRODUCTION One of the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the impaired extinction of traumatic memory. Single prolonged stress (SPS) has been suggested as an animal model of PTSD, since SPS rats exhibited the impaired fear extinction. Oxytocin (OXT) has been recently suggested as a potential pharmacotherapy for treatment of PTSD. In this study, using SPS rats we inves...

Paper currencies could be one of the most potential vehicles to transmit diseases amongst the people. The daily transactions have made the paper currency to pass through many hands and pathogens become imposed on them before they are finally deposited in banks. Modern scientific studies have confirmed the presence of various pathogenic bacteria on paper currencies. Amongst others, Staphylococcu...

Paper currencies could be one of the most potential vehicles to transmit diseases amongst the people. The daily transactions have made the paper currency to pass through many hands and pathogens become imposed on them before they are finally deposited in banks. Modern scientific studies have confirmed the presence of various pathogenic bacteria on paper currencies. Amongst others, Staphylococcu...

Started with a single best-effort service, the Internet has evolved to an ecosystem where different Service Providers (SPs), e.g., Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) provide different types of services, e.g., IP transit and content caching/distribution. In this paper, we propose a preference model on how the Content Providers (CPs) of the Internet choose ...

We show, by means of a simple compilation of the available experimental results, that the p⊥-spectra obtained at RHIC and SPS are strikingly similar. In fact, the discrepancies between various experimental groups working at the same experiment are of the same size as the differences between RHIC and SPS. Our observation is complementary to the well known fact of the equality of the measured Rsi...

in this paper we report an eco-friendly route for the synthesis of sliver nanoparticles using agaricus bisporus (white button mushroom) extract. the synthesized silver nanoparticles were confirmed and characterized by uv-visible spectrum of the aqueous solution containing silver ions showed a peak at 420 nm corresponding to the surface plasmon absorbance of silver nanoparticles. transmission el...