Wetland and floodplain soils in the East African Rift of Kenya provide a record of changing palaeoclimate and palaeohydrology compatible with climate records for the mid-Holocene through the late Holocene Medieval Warm Period (~AD 800–1270) and Little Ice Age (~AD 1270–1850), documented previously in nearby lacustrine sites. Soils forming from volcaniclastic source materials in both Loboi Swamp...

Digital images have been a major form of transmission of visual information, but due to the presence of noise, the image gets corrupted. Thus, processing of the received image needs to be done before being used in an application. Denoising of image involves data manipulation in order to produce a good quality image. This paper introduces a new technique that is formed by hybridizing the thresho...

CONTEXT Certified athletic trainers can choose different types of external compression (none, Flex-i-Wrap, and elastic wrap) when applying an ice bag to the body. However, which type facilitates the greatest magnitude of tissue cooling is unclear. OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of 2 common types of external compression on the magnitude of surface and intramuscular cooling during an ice-bag ...

The World Wide Web has become one of the most important connections to various sources of information. A large proportion of the data is embedded in HTML documents. This language serves the visual presentation of data in Internet browser, but does not provide semantic information for the data presented. This form of data presentation is, therefore, inappropriate for the demands of automated, co...

Limited systolic assistance by weak power of the Latissimus Dorsi Muscle (LDM) due to excessive slow speed of shortening have been considered a problem of Dynamic CardioMyoPlasty (DyCMP ) after its creation by Carpentier and Chachques. To improve systolic assistance, and to reduce potential muscular damage, we introduced the concept of activity-rest stimulation, to deliver fewer impulses per da...

Iterative-improvement 2-way min-cut partitioning is an important phase in most circuit placement tools, and finds use in many other CAD applications. Most iterative improvement techniques for circuit netlists like the FiducciaMattheyses (FM) method compute the gains of nodes using local netlist information that is only concerned with the immediate improvement in the cutset. This can lead to mis...

In Mixed Fuzzy Rule Formation [Int. J. Approx. Reason. 32 (2003) 67] a method to extract mixed fuzzy rules from data was introduced. The underlying algorithm’s performance is influenced by the choice of fuzzy t-norm and t-conorm, and a heuristic to avoid conflicts between patterns and rules of different classes throughout training. In the following addendum to [Int. J. Approx. Reason. 32 (2003)...

Testosterone is important growth factor for prostate cells. If testosterone availability drops, prostate cells stop thriving. Benign prostate shrinks and the same happens with prostate cancer cells. Larger decrease in testosterone availability means larger reduction in prostate cells mass. Although only reduction in testosterone levels will not, in most occasions, per‐ manently heal prostate ca...

In the note a simple calculation of one loop threshold corrections for the SO(32) heterotic string is performed. In particular the compactification on T 2 with a Wilson line breaking the gauge group to SO(16)×SO(16) is considered. Using heterotic type I duality, these corrections can be related to quantities appearing in the quantum mechanics of type I ′ D0 particles. February 1999 1 email: gut...