At the end of the 20th century, access to information provided by the World Wide Web (WWW) is changing as never before. The fast availability of current medical literature and the availability of tools for easy access to information, as well as for the easy production of information, have confronted research physicians, scholars, and students with new kinds of problems, many of which concern us...

A geophysical investigation involving the vertical electrical sounding (VES) electrical resistivity methods was carried out around Pydibhimavaram Industrial area Srikakulam district Andhra Pradesh. Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) using Schlumberger array was conducted at thirteen (13) VES stations. The study was carried out with a view to determine the subsurface layer parameters (resistivit...

In patients with repeated exposure to cold water, such as cold water surfers and kayakers, the reactive exostoses can occur in the external auditory canal. The external auditory canal exostoses are multiple, benign bony growths. They can cause external auditory canal stenosis, leading to repeated otitis externa and potentially conductive hearing loss. It is vital to consider this entity in susc...

A previously healthy 32-year-old man developed acute onset of lower extremity weakness (American Spinal Injury Association [ASIA]–motor L2-S1, grade 2/5), T8 sensory level, and loss of bowel and bladder control (ASIA Impairment Scale [AIS] C) while surfing. The patient was a novice surfer and recalled a prolonged period in prone hyperextension. MRI spine was consistent with surfer’s myelopathy,...

The Green Wave Hypothesis posits that herbivore migration manifests in response to waves of spring green-up (i.e. green-wave surfing). Nonetheless, empirical support for the Green Wave Hypothesis is mixed, and a framework for understanding variation in surfing is lacking. In a population of migratory mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), 31% surfed plant phenology in spring as well as a theoreticall...

Search engines, directories and web browsers all deal with the Internet at the level of individual web-pages. We argue that this is too low a level of resolution for many, including the non-casual surfer, who has detailed knowledge of his/her topic of interest. We present the shopping-mall metaphor that is based on identifying tightly integrated communities of web pages, where pages procure inf...

The measurement and control of soil moisture are the key technologies of precision agriculture. In order to real-time detect soil moisture content faster and more accurately, a portable soil moisture sensor based on NIR spectroscopy was developed. With the sixty soil samples collected from a winter jujube orchard, a linear regression model was established. The determination coefficients of the ...

1 Ph.D. Student, AIAA Student Member, Email: [email protected] 2 Senior Research Associate, AIAA Member, [email protected] Associate Professor, AIAA Member, Email: [email protected] ; http://141.217.13.61/ 4 Senior Scientist, AIAA Member, Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT In this paper, we report the experience of calculating three-dimensional detonations by the Space-...

We examine how three different communication processes operating through social networks are affected by homophily – the tendency of individuals to associate with others similar to themselves. Homophily has no effect if messages are broadcast or sent via shortest paths; only network connection density matters. In contrast, homophily substantially slows learning based on repeated averaging of ne...

SimRank is an intuitive and effective measure for link-based similarity that scores similarity between two nodes as the first-meeting probability of two random surfers, based on the random surfer model. However, when a user queries the similarity of a given node-pair based on SimRank, the existing approaches need to compute the similarities of other node-pairs beforehand, which we call an all-p...