a survey of fiber optics in local access architectures

... changes in WSN The passive monitoring data are gathered to a central storage and aggregated during the routing Active in- network monitoring tasks execute signal processing algorithms locally in ... management, and a local IPC The memory control should support static and dynamic memory and maintain information about available memory We recommend the usage of a message-passing IPC because ... QoS-aware middleware requires a more powerful platform than the other two A database approach is taken in sensor information and networking architecture (SINA) [24], in TinyDB [65] on top of TinyOS,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... and validation of a questionnaire to assess disabling foot pain Pain 2000, 85:107-113 21 Garrow AP, Papageorgiou A, Silman AJ, Thomas E, Jayson MI, Macfarlane GJ: The grading of hallux valgus ... Sheets Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics; 2006 Page of 17 Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizenship: Community information summary: Cyprus-born Canberra: Australian Government; ... 16 Australian Bureau of Statistics: Australians overall claim more than 250 ancestries, speak 400 languages at home 2914.0.55.002 - 2006 Census of Population and Housing: Media Releases and Fact...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, USA Respondents had been practicing an average of 10.5 years, and an average of eight years in Germany Most chiropractors practiced in cities rather than rural areas ... perceptions of practicing chiropractors in Germany regarding research, to look at their reading and research habits, and to gather basic demographic and practice characteristics data Methods A self-report ... practitioners except for an examination based on a law from 1939 [3] "Heilpraktiker" thus can perform manipulation without having proof of any type of education American chiropractors have taken...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... on April 191319 and a photograph of it in a state of near completion appeared in the May 1913 issue of the American Theosophist magazine.20 Nearly all of the working drawings bear Richard Requa’s ... remain of its original fine detailing and spatial interest Some minor exterior modifications have been made in the course of remodeling, though the general effect of the original facades and mass ... central feature is a tower consisting of an octagonal superstructure over a cubic base This tower links a western wing (probably containing the main living area) and an eastern wing The architectural...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... is the large number of panel data analyses linking aggregate health expenditures, per capita income, indicators of ageing, and other relevant variables available from the OECD (Organization for ... demography of ageing in Japan and the United States.” Draft Boston, MA: Harvard School of Public Health Carey, David 1999 “Coping with population ageing in Australia.” Working paper #217 Paris: ... with HIV/AIDS (Ainsworth and Dayton 2001; Barnett and Blaikie 1992; Vanlandingham et al 2000, WHO (World Health Organization) 2001) In a study of Tanzania, Ainsworth and Dayton (2001) found a short-term...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... BNP Paribas National Bank of Abu Dhabi CaixaBank North America National Bank of Kuwait Commerzbank Bank of America National Commercial Bank Credit Suisse Bank of Montreal Qatar National Bank Danske ... Royal Bank of Canada China International Capital Corporation ING Scotiabank Intesa Sanpaolo State Street Corporation CIMB Group KBC Bank Wells Fargo Commonwealth Bank of Australia Lloyds Banking ... Arab Bank Alpha Bank Banco de Crédito del Perú Arab Banking Corporation Banco BPI Banco Nacional de Costa Rica BankMuscat Barclays Bank Bancolombia BLOM Bank BBVA Itaú Unibanco FirstRand Bank BNP...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... capacity figures very low We have summarized the average and maximum testing capacity in appendix The ratio of the maximum capacity to the average capacity available is about 2.5 Again, this indicates ... estimating the available capacity for single tests At best it could give a clue to make a guess about the overall laboratory capacity in the EU The estimations of average and maximum testing capacities ... general standard for an acceptable level of price variability Thus, we had to fix a reasonable boundary The ratio mean to median of a sample of observations is a crude measure of the amount of variability...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... fraction of what it will be in 15 years Data mining of personal traces is in its infancy Automatic facial recognition of video images is in its infancy Surveillance cameras are not all digital, ... early 1990s predictions are available in a searchable database online at the site Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast and they are also the basis for a book by Anderson titled Imagining ... southeast Alaska has been preserved in an online database used by schoolchildren in Glacier Bay More places are seeing the development of indigenouslanguage projects and databases online Broadband...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... reach them; organizing entails arranging and coordinating human, material and information resources aimed at achieving desired goals; leading involves motivating others to achieve organizational ... that variable This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent variable, to which parametric statistical tests can be applied Reliability of scales was estimated by assessing ... indicators to assist in the development of training programs in medical management These related to the delivery of health care, financial management, organizational management, and legal and ethical considerations...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... contributions EAJ was principal investigator and acquired the funding EAJ and HRR designed the survey SEB and HRR acquired the data HRR analyzed the data and all three authors interpreted the data, wrote ... difficulty of finding accessible programs Formal reentry programs are few, and often present financial and geographical barriers, and may likely account for the low incidence of use among survey ... - conjures up a cohort of physicians not highly engaged in medicine, with a Page of 10 matching lack of interest in a survey about their inactivity In addition, over 20% of initial respondents...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... successful pansharpening approach In this paper, we examine the classical and state-ofthe-art pansharpening methods described in the literature giving a clear classification of the methods and a description ... that, in spite of lack of a reference data set, the global quality of a fused image can be assessed at the full scale of the PAN image Amro et al EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing ... the appearance of the objects in the pansharpened images is analyzed in each band based on the appearance of the same objects in the original MS images; (2) multispectral synthesis in pansharpened...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... second mechanism, adaptive pacing, is used for regulating the data flow in a more balanced and fair way Adaptive pacing adds an extra interval to the backoff time, which is equal to the transmission ... However, only a single path is used for data transmission and the second one maintained as a backup path to minimise the chance of route unavailability To select a primary path and a backup path, two ... and avoid initiating a false route failure warning Ping-pong messages are actually small size packets used for probing a link state A node sends a ping message and receives the pong message in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... ICP-AES as the technique of detection (Zbíral 1994) Methods of statistical analysis Exploratory statistical analysis involves the examination of mean values, coefficients of variation, maximum and ... tree in terrain and geodetically by the GPS system The main species in the area are Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) accounting for 75% and 20% of ... contents of zinc are higher in the area of Jablunkov Pass than in the remaining area of NFR (Fig. 3) Its higher contents are evident in the uppermost mineral horizon along the Jablunkov Pass The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... disseminating the findings of their research Although we are aware of studies that explore the nature of dissemination activity in other countries [13,14], we are unaware of any previous survey that ... engagement with national and international government ministers, local NHS commissioning agencies, National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Appraisal Committees (and European ... consideration of a number of key elements These include planning activities, targeting audiences, selecting communication channels, and evaluating impact Using these elements as an underpinning framework,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... but as any behavior that results in a reduction in drug related harm Denning [11] has also argued that treatment programs that require abstinence for entry and only allow abstinence as a treatment ... strategies among front line staff in addictions treatment agencies in Ontario: nonabstinence goals in the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse, needle exchange, and methadone maintenance Results indicated ... Data collection took place in two phases A list of outpatient and assessment/referral agencies in Ontario was obtained from the Drug and Alcohol Registry of Treatment (DART) Each agency was assigned...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... 679 Almaty S Kazakhstan2 Dzhambul2 Dzhezkazgan Karaganda Aktiubinsk Overall3 1The approximate spatial location of the oblast within Kazakhstan is given (see also Fig 1) was the targets of an of cial ... 3Significance ear component increasing in magnitude and the quadratic effect was significant and negative, indicating that a combination of linear and quadratic age terms might be an acceptable functional ... raions should have vaccination programmes Of cial statistics show that about 200,000 cattle were vaccinated against FMD in 1997, all in Dzhambul and South Kazakhstan oblasts, representing Table...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... Leo Pharmaceuticals, and additional grants for investigator initiated research from Pharmacia and Aventis Key messages Determining which DVT characteristics impart clinical significance to intensivists ... lists of both patient factors and ultrasonographic features that may influence clinicians' interpretation of the importance of a DVT in the ICU setting Ideally, empiric data would inform us about ... demonstrated that intensivists define clinically important DVT using criteria that are relevant to critical care patients in addition to those suitable for general DVT patients Pending the availability...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... design of the study, analysis of data, manuscript drafting, and all manuscript revisions DC, DF, and PH aided with study design, data analysis and drafting, as well as manuscript revisions AA aided ... albumin was infrequent Reasons for minimal use of albumin may be related to the findings of a previous meta-analysis that suggested that albumin was not beneficial and was potentially harmful [24] ... combinations Normal saline + ringers lactate + pentastarch 21.9 Normal saline + ringers lactate only 5.7 Normal saline only 5.2 Ringers lactate only 0.5 Pentastarch only Red blood cell transfusion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... complaints of chronic pain and depression [6] The majority of patients with physical disabilities appear to utilise CAM therapies that are manual rather than herbal in nature This may be related ... Managing increased physical load and manual handling (7%) Relief of symptoms associated with wheelchair use 24 (29%) Fitting treatment into standard appointment time (5%) Resolution of muscular ... presented a challenge for a substantial proportion of the chiropractors in the current study Manual handling tasks are physically demanding, often unpredictable in nature and in the chiropractic setting,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... university hospital 2009 in press Sadakata T, Washida M, Iwayama Y, Shoji S, Sato Y, Ohkura T, KatohSemba R, Nakajima M, Sekine Y, Tanaka M, Nakamura K, Iwata Y, Tsuchiya KJ, Mori N, Detera-Wadleigh SD, ... Fujisawa D, Nakagawa A, Kato T: [Psychiatric training at university hospitals a viewpoint of the first psychiatrists who were trained at the latter part of the new system] Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi ... Nakamura K, Anitha A, Yamada K, Tsujii M, Iwayama Y, Hattori E, Toyota T, Takei N, Miyachi T, Iwata Y, Suzuki K, Matsuzaki H, Kawai M, Sekine Y, Tsuchiya K, Sugihara G, Suda S, Ouchi Y, Sugiyama...

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