Improved methods are proposed for disk-drive failure prediction. The SMART (Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology) failure prediction system is currently implemented in disk-drives. Its purpose is to predict the near-term failure of an individual hard disk-drive, and issue a backup warning to prevent data loss. Two experimental tests of SMART show only moderate accuracy at low false-alarm ra...

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the impact of telephone counseling and educational materials on medication adherence and persistency among members with newly diagnosed depression enrolled in a pharmacy benefit management-sponsored disease management program. STUDY DESIGN: Longitudinal cohort observation. METHODS: The study population comprised 505 members with a new or recurrent episode of depression w...

The Saglek-Hebron Complex (SHC) located in Northern Labrador, Canada, includes some of the oldest crustal rocks on Earth. This granite-greenstone terrain is dominated by trondhjemite, Mg-rich tonalite, granite, with subordinate granodiorite, and recorded over one billion years early magmatic history between ∼3900 Ma ∼2700 Ma. New in-situ U-Pb analyses zircons from eighteen rock samples, suggest...

New innovative green concepts in electrified vertical take-off and landing vehicles are currently emerging as a revolution urban mobility going into the third dimension (vertically). The high population density of cities makes market share highly attractive while posing an extraordinary challenge terms community acceptance due to increasing possibly noisier commuter traffic. In addition passeng...

Urinary allantoin excretion as a measure of microbial protein production, has been shown to be responsive to ruminal nitrogen (N) supply (Balcells et al. 1993). Dietary phosphorus (P) deficiency has also been observed to reduce microbial protein flow (Gunn and Ternouth 1994). The aim of this experiment was to examine the effects of P and N deficiencies upon microbial protein formation, as deter...

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We study the feasibility of nonlocally compensating for polarization mode dispersion (PMD), when polarization entangled photons are distributed in fiber-optic channels. We quantify the effectiveness of nonlocal compensation while taking into account the possibility that entanglement is generated through the use of a pulsed optical pump signal. © 2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: 060.2...

AIM To identify the clinical predictors and assist surgeons in their clinical management of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) - a prospective study with a new approach to analyse the static and dynamic upper airway morphology between patients with OSA and normal subjects. To introduce a new method of assessment for surgical outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS Quantitative computer-assisted videoendos...