In the first place, the qualities of sulphurous acid are worthy of note. "It is a powerful deoxidising agent, disinfecting and antiseptic, and destructive to vegetable life. It destroys the germs of fungi in wounds, of parasitic lichen on the skin." {Vide Squire's Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia, Art. Sulphurous acid.) Should cholera be due ^as some have supposed) to the presence of a fi...

In this paper, we tackle the problem of opportunistic spectrum access in large-scale cognitive radio networks, where the unlicensed Secondary Users (SU) ac-cess the frequency channels partially occupied by the licensed Primary Users(PU). Each channel is characterized by an availability probability unknown tothe SUs. We apply population game theory to model the spectrum acces...

An in te l l igent robot, operating in an external environment that cannot be f u l l y modeled in the robot's software, must be able to monitor the suc­ cess of its execution of a previously generated plan . This paper outlines a unif led i ormalism for describing and relat ing the various functi ons oi a robot operating in such an environment. After exploring the d is t inet ion between the e...

The stochastic process-algebra modelling paradigm has been introduced recently as an extension of classical p m cess algebras with timing information aiming mainly at the integration of functional design with quantitative analysis of computer systems. Time is represented by exponentially distributed random variables that are assigned to each activity in the model. Thus, the semantic model of a ...

Carboxylesterase (CES) is important for detoxification of a wide range of drugs and xenobiotics and catalyzes cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism. Cynomolgus macaques are widely used in drug metabolism studies; however, cynomolgus CES has not been fully investigated at molecular levels, partly due to the lack of gene information. In this study, we isolated and characterized cDNAs for CES homo...

Ab stract: Ef fec tive ness must be de ter mined for each new tech nol ogy be cause it may have ad van tages and dis ad van tages over what is cur rently of fered. We re viewed the lit er a ture to syn the size in for ma tion on whether telepsychiatry is ef fec tive. Based on the lit er a ture, we sug gest that the ef fec tive ness of telepsychiatry be eval u ated on ac cess to care, qual ity o...

We provide a joint strong approximation of the uniform spacings empirical pro1 cess and of the uniform quantile process by sequences of independent Gaussian processes. 2 This allows us to obtain an explicit description of the limiting Gaussian process generated by 3 the sample spacings from a non-uniform distribution. It is of the form B(t)+ (1− σF ){(1− 4 t) log(1 − t)} ∫ 1 0 {B(s)/(1 − s)}ds,...

18 We show how state dependent behavioral theory, as implemented by Stochastic Dy19 namic Programming can enhance our understanding of play, assuming that play is an 20 evolutionary adaptation rather than a non-functional consequence of other processes. 21 We first explain in generic terms the components of a state dependent behavioral model. 22 We then develop a state dependent life history mo...

Predicting the mobility of heavy metals in soils requires models that accurately describe metal adsorption in the presence of competing cations. They should also be easily adjustable to specific soil materials and applicable in reactive transport codes. In this study, Cd adsorption to an acidic soil material was investigated over a wide concentration range (10(-8) to 10(-2) M CdCl2) in the pres...

Brain-damaged patients showing extinction are able to pro cess stimuli presented on either hemispace, but fail to report contralesional stimuli when simultaneously presented with an ipsilesional stimulus. Extinction may occur between stimuli of the same modality or between stimuli of different modalities (such as visual and tactile). This phenomenon has been inter preted as supramodal imbalance...