T oday, physical and electronic media coexist like ships passing in the night: proximate but unaware of each other. Contemporary design studios, offices, and labs are filled with both physical and electronic artifacts, but the two exist separately, and the infrastructure for moving between media representations—scanning and print-ing—is heavyweight and cumbersome, at odds with the freewheeling,...

T ODAY, the majority of biomedical tomography systems on the market (e.g., modern positron emission tomog-raphy (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and X-ray cone-beam computed tomography (CT) devices) acquire projection data in 3-D mode. The detectors these devices employ have an axial extent which seems to increase steadily with the introduction of new systems. This all...

The increasing demand of personal health monitoring products with long battery life had forced designers to use of those circuits which consume low power. Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) operating in subthreshold (weak inversion) region introduces a versatile solution for the realization of low power VLSI building blocks. This paper is focused on design of high performance OTA thro...

1. introduction some narratologists like kristeva and genette believe that if a text remembers another text, a dialogue has taken place between them and an inter-textual (or trans-textual) relationship has thus been established. some also believe that there is always a relationship between texts. among them, genette accompanied his claims by a theory and opened a new way before the narratologis...

powerful as these studies are, they do not provide information on which microbes are responsible for specific biogeochemical processes. Additional studies were designed to evaluate ocean function with the use of culturing technologies. However, a significant challenge to our ability to study and understand these microorganisms is that the vast majority are not easily cultured on typical growth ...

The syndromal presentation of chronic f:~tigue, feverishness, diffuse pains and other constitutional complaints, often precipitated by an acute infectious illness and aggravated by physical and emotional stressors, has a len~hy history. It has been described in the medical literature since the early 1700',. Sir Richard Manningham wrote, in 1750, of the 'febricula' or 'little fever' which presen...

T oday science is in the age of biology and biology is in the age of genomics. Sequencing the entire genome of an organism, an enterprise that could not have been imagined barely 50 y ago, is being thought of as the first step toward a complete understanding of its biology. If I had been asked to recommend just two families of living organisms from which to pick the first two species for whole-...

ed to car tographic point-like symbols. Nonetheless, the qualitative locative information of the landmarks is maintained, for example their position at a corner of an intersection. The benefits of maps are apparent from their ubiquitous existence in our culture. Recently, route maps have become widely available through the Web and on-board navigation systems (e.g. Agrawala & Stolte, 2001). Desp...

The above c o n t e n t i o n . I f t r u e , g r e a t l y s h i f t s the emphasls w i t h i n the Process Transformat ion Phase from tha t of a general problem so lver s o l v i n g problems In a domain Independent way to modi fy ing a s o l u t i o n so t ha t it does not ma in ta in any i r r e l e v a n t p o r t i o n s of the complete model and which abs t rac t s the re levan t po r t ...

This paper begins by exploring the ongoing debates about corporate involvement in UK universities and the broader marketization of the higher education sector of which it is but part. Following this, we move on to consider whether higher education institutions might also be conceptualized as corporations in their own right and whether the current preoccupation with ideas of corporate social res...