Gene drives have the potential to rapidly replace a harmful wild-type allele with a gene drive allele engineered to have desired functionalities. However, an accidental or premature release of a gene drive construct to the natural environment could damage an ecosystem irreversibly. Thus, it is important to understand the spatiotemporal consequences of the super-Mendelian population genetics bef...

This article presents some of the characteristics of future service-oriented systems. Also, it focuses on a set of architecture and design drivers for these future serviceoriented systems that can help meet new expectations without sacrificing the loosely coupled, stateless, standards-based characteristics that have driven SOA adoption in many contexts. The article concludes with thoughts on th...

It occurs frequently in robotic applications that a robot manipulates a workpiece which is free to slide on a work surface. Because the pressure distribution supporting the workpiece on the work surface cannot in general be known, the motion of the workpiece cannot be calculated uniquely. Yet despite this indeterminacy, several researchers have shown that sliding motions can be employed to accu...

epicentre of the epidemic in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, found that no-one was wearing one. The majority of journalists dealt with the underlying uncertainties of the story rather well. Using information from national laboratories and the World Health Organization, they reported the initial pinpointing of the causative agent as a paramyxovirus, the subsequent implication of ...

In the current work, we test the hypothesis that 'at-issue' and 'not-at-issue' content (Potts, 2005) are processed semi-independently. In a written rating study comparing restrictive relative clauses and parentheticals in interrogatives and declaratives, we observe a significantly larger length penalty for restrictive relative clauses than for parentheticals. This difference cannot be attribute...

Beam-pushed propulsion systems, such as solarlaser-, or microwavepushed sails, allow the possibility of fuel-free propulsion in space. This makes possible missions of extremely high delta=V, potentially as high as 30,000 km/sec (0.1c), which is required for an fly-by mission to a nearby star. This project analyzed the potential use of dielectric thin films for solar and laser sails. The advanta...

In this paper, we prove some qualitative properties of pushed fronts for the periodic reaction-diffusion-equation with general monostable nonlinearities. Especially, exponential behavior when they are approaching their unstable state. The proof also allows us to get pulsating speed c larger than minimal speed. Through behavior, finally stability fronts.