The development of in-vehicle control systems such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) provides static and dynamic road information. This widely accessible technology can be used to develop an ...auxiliary control sub-system to reduce vehicle fuel consumption as well as improve road safety and comfort. The raw GPS data from the receiver were processed and integrated with the past trajectory using a Neuro-fuzzy technique. The system essentially used a fuzzy logic derived relief map of the test route and this was further validated and corrected based on the past trajectory from the GPS sensor. The information was then processed and translated in order to estimate the future elevation of the vehicle. Experimental results demonstrated the feasibility and robustness of the system for potential application in vehicle control for reduced fuel consumption and emissions.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Third KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-agent Systems - Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2009)--held at Uppsala University in Sweden during June ...3-5, 2009. The symposium was organized by Uppsala University, KES International and its Focus Group on Agent and Multi-agent Systems. The KES-AMSTA Symposium series is a sub-series of the KES Conference series. Following the successes of the First KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-agent Systems - Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2007), held in Wroclaw, Poland, from May 31 to 1 June 2007--and the Second KES Symposium on Agent and Multi-agent Systems - Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA 2008) held in Incheon, Korea, March 26-28, 2008--KES-AMSTA 2009 featured keynote talks, oral and poster presentations, and a number of workshops and invited sessions, closely aligned to the themes of the conference. The aim of the symposium was to provide an international forum for scientific - search into the technologies and applications of agent and multi-agent systems. Agent and multi-agent systems are an innovative type of modern software system and have long been recognized as a promising technology for constructing autonomous, c- plex and intelligent systems. A key development in the field of agent and multi-agent systems has been the specification of agent communication languages and formali- tion of ontologies. Agent communication languages are intended to provide standard declarative mechanisms for agents to communicate knowledge and make requests of each other, whereas ontologies are intended for conceptualization of the knowledge domain.
Tacrolimus improves lipid profile in renal and liver transplant recipients. The impact of conversion from cyclosporine microemulsion (Neoral) to tacrolimus (Prograf) in a large randomized study of ...stable heart transplant recipients with treated but persistent mild dyslipidemia is reported.
One hundred twenty-nine long-term (>or=12 months) cyclosporine microemulsion-treated heart transplant recipients with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol >2.5 mmol/liter and/or a total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio >4 were recruited for the study. Complete lipid profile was assessed before (baseline) and after 6 months of treatment with either cyclosporine microemulsion maintenance (n=64) or tacrolimus conversion (n=65).
At 6 months, tacrolimus-converted patients exhibited a greater decrease in total cholesterol (from 5.51 +/- 0.16 to 4.88 +/- 1.22 mmol/liter tacrolimus, vs 5.61 +/- 1.36 to 5.38 +/- 0.87 mmol/liter cyclosporine; p = 0.0078). This decrease in cholesterol was caused largely by a decrease in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (-0.41 +/- 0.54 tacrolimus vs -0.13 +/- 0.55 cyclosporine; p=0.0018). There were no changes in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels, but apolipoprotein B therapy was reduced in tacrolimus-converted vs cyclosporine-maintained patients (p=0.0003). By 6 months, 23.7% of tacrolimus- vs 6.7% of cyclosporine-treated patients met the target lipid levels for high-risk patients (p=0.0094). Conversion from cyclosporine to tacrolimus resulted in decreases in blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, and uric acid without any changes in glucose, HbA(1C), and insulin levels.
Conversion from cyclosporine microemulsion- to tacrolimus-based immunoprophylaxis resulted in decreased cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, urea, creatinine, and uric acid without any clinically evident perturbation of glucose metabolism in stable heart transplant recipients with treated but persistent mild dyslipidemia.
Blood samples were collected from clinically normal, captive-reared, chick and juvenile kori bustards (Ardeotis kori), at regular intervals, over a 15-month period. Full routine haematological ...analyses were carried out to establish reference values for growing individuals of this species and to assess age-related changes. The results of this study showed significant age-related differences in haematrocrit, haemoglobin and red blood cell count in young birds compared with values of captive adult kori bustards. In chick and juvenile birds, white blood cell counts were higher than those established for adults, with heterophils and lymphocytes present in similar numbers.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Two linear DNA plasmids (pLm9 and pLm10, sized 9 and 10 kb respectively) were isolated from the phytopathogenic ascomycete Leptosphaeria maculans, using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. pLm9 and ...pLm10 are found only in aggressive isolates of L. maculans but, because aggressive and non-aggressive strains appear to be different species, these plasmids are probably not involved in pathogenicity. pLm9 and pLm10 copurify with a mitochondrially-enriched cell fraction, and do not hybridise to chromosomal or mitochondrial DNA, or to each other. Exonuclease digestions suggest that both these molecules contain covalently-bound proteins at their 5' termini. pLm9 hybridises to the RNA polymerase of a linear plasmid from the ascomycete Podospora anserina, and pLm 10 hybridises to the DNA polymerase from the same P. anserina plasmid, suggesting that pLm9 and pLm10 encode their own replication and transcription enzymes.
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In 2008, thirty-three thousand people from six continents visited a small, historic Mormon temple, the Kirtland Temple, near Cleveland, Ohio. “I couldn’t value anyplace more than the Kirtland ...Temple,” related a frequent Latter-day Saint visitor. “The feeling there is similar to what I had in Jerusalem when I visited the garden tomb and the garden of Gethsemane…. I sense that angels are not far when I enter it.”¹ This pilgrim, a member of the 14 million–strong Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, does not belong to the denomination that owns the Kirtland Temple. Instead, the 170-year-old stone and
In December 1905, a small group of LDS general authorities and their spouses embarked on a whirlwind tour of the eastern United States, including a stop to dedicate a monument at Joseph Smith’s ...birthplace in Vermont. On the return, the LDS party surprised the RLDS Kirtland Temple caretakers by appearing on the temple’s steps during a time of the year that had few guests touring the structure. According to one party member, Edith Ann Smith (her father a cousin to Joseph Smith Jr.), the group experienced two types of coldness in the Kirtland Temple: “One the result of the temperature
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