0017-9310/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.10.027 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.G. The efficiency of a thermoelectric material is measured by the figure of merit ZT, which is inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity. Superlattice structures often have a reduced thermal conductivity because of the intr...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.04.034 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 2123 5812; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (Y.H. Jang). Greenwood’s approximation for the thermal resistance of a cluster of microcontacts is used recursively to estimate the thermal resistance due to a fractal array of circular contact areas motivated by Archa...

This study investigated the relationship between perceived reduction in performance due to injury or illness (RPII) and basic psychological need satisfaction youth elite handball. Participants were 174 handball players 15 18 years of age, from five different sport schools. It was a quantitative study, with two time points (one week apart), resulting crossed-lagged structural equation model. Com...

Epistemic model checking is an automated verification methodology that enables multi-agent and concurrent systems and models to be verified with respect to properties concerning the information possessed by the agents, and how this information changes over time. The project investigated an approach the optimization of epistemic model checking using reasoning about independencies detected by mea...

Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto-Daigaku Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan, Division of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0017, Japan, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan, Laborat...

The relation between the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and resting heart rate (rHR) in patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease is unknown. The authors examined the cross-sectional association at baseline between components of the MetS and rHR and between rHR and left ventricular ejection fraction in the population from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BA...

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is the most commonly isolated pathogen responsible for travelers' diarrhea and the cause of up to 650 million cases of pediatric diarrhea per year in the developing world. As a safe alternative to the prophylactic use of antibiotics, a hyperimmune bovine milk antibody product with specific activity against purified colonization factor antigens (CFAs) was ...

In 1993 LEP performed a scan at three energy points around the Z 0 mass, with the primary aim of substantially improving the errors on M Z and ? z. The results of the preliminary lineshape analyses of the 4 LEP experiments are presented here, together with the combined LEP averages. The Z 0 mass and width are determined as M Z = 91:1899 0:0017 exp 0:004 lep Gev and ? z = 2:4971 0:0027 exp 0:002...

In this report, we describe an obstacle identification method using affine structures from motion. We first identify a reference plane by tracking feature points across image sequences. We then compute the homographies between images induced by the reference plane from these feature points. Once the feature points are categorized as on the plane and off the plane, we reconstruct the affine stru...

The parents of 41 young people with epilepsy who were living in the same household as the patients were interviewed using the Camberwell Family Interview, and ratings of expressed emotion (EE) carried out according to standard criteria. The presence of any seizures in the 6 months prior to interview was found to be a predictor of EE (p= 0. 0017). Absolute seizure frequency, as well as presence ...