This paper discusses the relationship between formal, context insensitive information, and informal, situated information, in the context of Requirements Engineering; these opposite but complementary aspects of information are called \the dry" and \the wet." Formal information occurs in the syntactic representations used in computer-based systems. Informal situated information arises in social ...

We investigate the kinetics of constant-kernel aggregation which is augmented by either: (a) evaporation of monomers from finite-mass clusters , or (b) continuous cluster growth – i. e., condensation. The rate equations for these two processes are analyzed using both exact and asymptotic methods. In aggregation-evaporation, if the evaporation is mass conserving, i. e., the monomers which evapor...

Introduction: Chronic suppurative otitis media is a major public health problem in children and adults. Tympanoplasty is a surgical procedure which aims to prevent recurrent otorrhea and restore hearing ability. Objective: To compare the graft uptake and the hearing outcome of tympanoplasty in non cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media between wet and totally dry ears. Methods: A total of 108 w...

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BACKGROUND In normal subjects the distal esophageal response to dry swallows differs from that of wet swallows. Our aim in this investigation was to compare the esophageal contractions of the proximal and distal esophageal body to wet and dry swallows. METHODS We studied the esophageal contractions of eight patients with idiopathic achalasia, 37 patients with Chagas' disease, 28 patients with...

Atmospheric nitrogen species including NO3-, NH4+ and total nitrogen in air and precipitation samples were collected with low-volume filter packs and wet deposition collectors from March 1999 through the end of December 2000 in seven sampling locations in Connecticut. Three sampling locations were chosen along the shores of Long Island Sound and four were chosen in interior sections of Connecti...