Page 2341. Compound 162 in Table 4 has been misrepresented as having a methyl group in the R1 position when there should be an isonicotinoyl group. Page 2345. Compounds 159 and 160 in Table 8 should be drawn as having a methyl group in the 2-postion of the indole and the R should be a methyl group instead of the nicotinoyl group as shown. Pages 2344−2355. In the section “Chemistry Experimentals...

The ability to traverse unknown, rough terrain is an advantage that legged locomoters have over their wheeled counterparts. However, due to the complexity of multi-legged systems, research in legged robotics has not yet been able to reproduce the agility found in the animal kingdom. In an effort to reduce the complexity of the problem, researchers have developed single-legged models to gain ins...

The contamination of 15 ground water resources of a selected region earmarked for the emergency supply of population has been monitored. The resources have been selected on the basis of previous assessment of natural conditions and the exploitation of territory in their surroundings and infiltration area. Two resources out of 15 have been excluded from further exploitation, because they have no...

Quality assurance makes sure the project will be completed based on the previously approved specifications, standards and functionality. It is required without defects and possible problems. It monitors and tries to progress the development process from the start of the project. Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is the combination of the entire software development process, which includes softwa...

Numerous species of filamentous fungi were isolated from lemon on different plantations in the province of Tucuman, Argentina. The techniques suggested by the Subcommittee of Antifungal Susceptibility of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, (USA) were adapted. The effect of three different concentrations of the fungicides imazalil, guazatine, SOPP and thiabendazole on the f...

One of the main PKI problems is currently the lack of interoperability at international level, which is greatly dependent on the automation of the cross-certification procedure using Certificate Policies (CP). This paper addresses the above-mentioned need by presenting an XML-based tool for the automated development and comparison of CPs, with main emphasis on healthcare environments. The CP to...

To ful ll the increasing demand of higher network speeds, ethernet standards and corresponding network adapters are commercially available nowadays, which enable transfer rates of up to 10Gb/s. However the technology above the ethernet layer, especially the IP and TCP protocols, were not changed and optimized that rapidly, hence processing packets in these upper layers represent a bottleneck. A...

In the next years, new hash function candidates will replace the old MD5 and SHA-1 standards and the current SHA-2 family. The hash algorithms RadioGatún and irRUPT are potential successors based on a stream structure, which allows the achievement of high throughputs (particularly with long input messages) with minimal area occupation. In this paper, several hardware architectures of the two ab...

This paper focuses on performance investigation of reactive and proactive MANET routing protocols, namely AODV, DSR, TORA and OLSR. MANET is a type of Ad Hoc network, and here its functionality is based on 802.11 IEEE standards to communicate in a discrete and disperse environment with no central management [21]. Hence, the main investigation done in this paper is of the discrete feature and ro...