Any Source Multicast (ASM) called Internet Standard Multicast (ISM) and its extension, Specific Source Multicast (SSM), are two known multicast technologies for delivering a data flow to a great number of customers over IP networks without cumulative bandwidth consumption. ASM technology is suitable for the many-to-many delivering model such as videoconferencing, where more sources are sending ...

This paper provides a brief comparison between Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and the Work System Method (WSM) by S. Alter. The latter is a relatively recent systems approach specifically developed with the needs of the Information Systems field. It focuses on previous criticisms towards SSM and suggests how WSM might compare against them. Those comparisons are related to the difference between...

We review the theoretical and experimental status of minimal grand unified theories (GUTS), contrasting the failure of minimal non-supersymmetric SU(5) with the success of the minimal supersymmetric SU(5) and minimal supersymmetric Flipped SU(5)× U(1) models. We show that a reasonable value for the universal soft supersymmetry-breaking gaugino mass, 45GeV < m1/2 < 1TeV, and a 1−σ range of the o...

In many studies, a continuous response variable is repeatedly measured over time on one or more subjects. The subjects might be grouped into different categories, such as cases and controls. The study of resulting observation profiles as functions of time is called functional data analysis. This paper shows how you can use the SSM procedure in SAS/ETS® software to model these functional data by...

BACKGROUND In Zimbabwe, sputum smear microscopy (SSM) is the routinely used TB diagnostic tool in hospitalised HIV-infected patients. However, SSM has poor sensitivity in HIV-infected patients. We compared performance of urine lipoarabinomannan strip test (LAM) and SSM among hospitalized HIV-infected patients with suspected TB. METHODS Hospitalized HIV-infected patients with suspected TB were...

A technique for the assimilation of Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) data in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction’s (NCEP’s) global data assimilation and forecast system is described. Because the radiative transfer (RT) model used here does not yet allow for cloud/rain effects, it is crucial to properly identify and exclude (or correct) cloud/rain-contaminated radiances usin...

The standard slipped-strand mispairing (SSM) model for the formation of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs) proposes that a few tandem repeats, produced by chance mutations, provide the "raw material" for VNTR expansion. However, this model is unlikely to explain the formation of VNTRs with long motifs (e.g., minisatellites), because the likelihood of a tandem repeat forming by chance decrea...

The Sun is a main-sequence star at a stage of stable hydrogen burning. It produces an intense flux of electron neutrinos as a consequence of nuclear fusion reactions which generate solar energy, and whose combined effect is 4p + 2e − → 4 He + 2ν e + 26.73 MeV − E ν , (1) where E ν represents the energy taken away by neutrinos, with an average value being E ν ∼ 0.6 MeV. Each neutrino-producing r...

The Sun is a main-sequence star at a stage of stable hydrogen burning. It produces an intense ux of electron neutrinos as a consequence of nuclear fusion reactions which generate solar energy, and whose combined eeect is 4p + 2e ? ! 4 He + 2 e + 26:73 MeV ? E ; (1) where E represents the energy taken away by neutrinos, with an average value being hE i 0:6 MeV. Each neutrino-producing reaction, ...

Healthy aging is associated with brain volume reductions that involve the frontal cortex, but also affect other brain regions. We sought to identify an age-related network pattern of MRI gray matter using a multivariate statistical model of regional covariance, the Scaled Subprofile Model (SSM) with voxel based morphometry (VBM) in 29 healthy adults, 23-84 years of age (Group 1). In addition, w...