Wireless home entertainment center refers to a device able to handle heterogeneous media and to connect client devices located within the house and the outside world (i.e., the Internet).

High-pressure energy dispersive X-ray diffraction of wi~stite has been obtained with three types of diamond cells; each one is designed to optimize a type of in situ study, namely single-crystal X-ray diffraction, deviatoric strain measurement, or simultaneous high-P-T experimentation. The results demonstrate that above 17 GPa at 300 K wiastite undergoes a displacive transition from B 1 to a rh...

OBJECTIVE The non-heart-beating donor has been proposed as a solution to donor shortage for renal transplantation. Because the nature of such donors, the kidneys so derived have been damaged by primary warm ischemia (WI), and so potentially they may never function. Minimizing graft injury is especially important in case of transplantation form marginal donors because of a high rate of delayed g...

While physiological responses to water immersion (WI) are well-studied, the vascular responses after WI are less understood. Fifteen male subjects performed six-hour resting thermoneutral water immersions (WI) at 1.35 atmospheres absolute for four consecutive days, with follow-up on the fifth day. Measurements included peripheral endothelial function and augmentation index (PAT, peripheral arte...

The hypothesis was tested that suppression of generation of ANG II is one of the mechanisms of the water immersion (WI)-induced natriuresis in humans. In one protocol, eight healthy young males were subjected to 3 h of 1) WI (WI + placebo), 2) WI combined with ANG II infusion of 0.5 ng. kg(-1). min(-1) (WI + ANG II-low), and 3) a seated time control (Con). In another almost identical protocol, ...

The multi-armed bandit problem with switching penalties (switching cost and switching delays) is investigated. It is shown that under an optimal policy, decisions about the processor allocation need to be made only at stopping times that achieve an appropriate index, the well-known “Gittins index” or a “switching index” that is defined for switching cost and switching delays. An algorithm for t...

The 21st century is the age of Intemet and World Wide Web. The Web revolutionizes the way we gather, process, and use information. At the same time, it also redefines the meanings and processes of business, commerce, marketing, finance, publishing, education, research, development, as well as othq aspects of our daily life. The revolution is just beginning. Although individual Web-based informa...

This paper is a study of the use and possible flaws of the two basic cryptographic protocols (WEP, WPA) in Wi-Fi Networks. It is presenting some very easy to implement methods to gain malicious access to such networks by disclosing the network secret key, using Windows Operating Systems, like Win XP. It is also describing the shutter of the myth saying that the MAC Address filtering is a safe p...

The maximum segment density problem is this: Given a sequence of pairs (ai, wi), i = 1, 2, . . . , n, with wi > 0, and another pair of numbers L ≤ U , we have to find a subsequence ai, ai+1, . . . , aj whose density (ai + ai+1 + . . .+ aj)/(wi +wi+1 + . . .+wj) is maximum under the constraint that L ≤ wi + wi+1 + . . . + wj ≤ U . A principal motivation for studying this problem is its applicati...