Stephanidae Leach, 1815 (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from China are revised. Five genera are reported from China: Foenatopus Smith, 1861; Megischus Brullé, 1846; Parastephanellus Enderlein, 1906; Schlettererius Ashmead, 1900; and Stephanus Jurine (in Panzer), 1801, and the genera are keyed. All the Chinese species are described and illustrated and new synonyms are established. Keys to species of...

We present a routing suite for Mobile Ad hoc networks which uses the mechanisms of swarm intelligence to select good routes to destinations. Our suite, Ad hoc Networking with Swarm Intelligence (ANSI) has both proactive and reactive capabilities. In addition, ANSI has been designed with both deterministic routing capabilities, always choosing the best next hop from a selection of possible next ...

Nachdem das Thema „Management der Unternehmensarchitektur“ (engl. Enterprise Architecture Management, EAM) seit einiger Zeit in Wissenschaft und Praxis bearbeitet wird, werden Modelle der Unternehmensarchitektur in öffentlichen Einrichtungen und Unternehmen neben der Dokumentation von vorhandenen Strukturen und deren Analyse auch zunehmend als Instrument der strategischen Planung benutzt. Gemäß...

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), one of the most used working fluids in HVAC&R and ORC applications, are being phased down rapidly because their high global warming potential (GWP). Consequently, this sector is looking for suitable eco-friendly low-GWP alternatives to representative 3rd generation HFC refrigerants (R-134a, R-404A, R-410A, R-245fa). This article reviews publicly available investigatio...

Audiometric records of 213 employees with low noise exposure were selected from the public domain data base underpinning Draft American National Standards Institute (ANSI) S12.13-1991 Standard Evaluating the Effectiveness of Hearing Conservation Programs. Records were selected from an ANSI S12.13 "control" group demonstrating raw audiometric thresholds in 1-dB steps, presumably resulting from s...

In this paper, we consider ANSI C program slicing using XML (Extensible Markup Language). Our goal is to build a flexible, useful and uniform data interchange format for CASE tools, which is a key issue to make it much easier to develop CASE tools such as program slicers. Although XML has a great potential for such data interchange formats, we first point out that there are still a lot of chall...