Networking DEC and IBM computers

Local Area Networking of DEC and IBM computers within the structure of the ISO-OSI Seven Layer Reference Model at a raw signaling speed of 1 Mops or greater are discussed. After an introduction to the ISO-OSI Reference Model nd the IEEE-802 Draft Standard for Local Area Networks (LANs), there follows a detailed discussion and comparison of the products available from a variety of manufactures to perform this networking task. A summary of these products is presented in a table

A study on the Effect of Draught and Dust Amount on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Zabol City

Background & Objectives: Tuberculosis is a chronic bacterial disease that can be transmitted from the affected persons to others through air when the airway and lung drops of patients are released in the air and inhalled by healthy ones. This disease has a high prevalence in Zabol/ Iran due to the drought, rainfall status, high temperature, severe storms and dusty condition in this region. Methods: This descriptive-analytical research was conducted from June 2005 to June 2015 using weather data and the 10-year statistics of tuberculosis patients in Zabol city, of whom 62 patients had been treated. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to identify the factors affecting the disease. Data analysis was done through SPSS22 software and using Pearson correlation and regression analyses. Results: Climatological data showed increasing rate of wind speed over the past ten years. There was a negative correlation between the prevalence of tuberculosis and mean of annual rainfall during the ten years (P≤0.014). The results of regression test showed that wind speed had been very effective in the prevalence of tuberculosis (P = 0.711). Conclusion: To control tuberculosis, regular periodic screening, continuous education and more serious plans for providing specialized care and services are recommended. Meanwhile, appropriate measures including mulching and increasing plant coverage of the region should be taken to control dust. Keywords: Tuberculosis, Drought, Dust, Weather station, Zabol city Citation: Malakootian M, Mish MastNehi M. A study on the Effect of Draught and Dust Amount on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Zabol City. Journal of Health Based Research 2018; 4(1): 1-11

Metal Substitution as the Method of Modifying Electronic Structure of Metal-Organic Frameworks.

Targeted modification of electronic structure is an important step in the optimization of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for photovoltaic, sensing, and photocatalytic applications. The key parameters to be controlled include the band gap, the absolute energy position of band edges, the excited state charge separation, and degree of hybridization between metal and ligand sites. Partial metal replacement, or metal doping, within secondary building units is a promising, yet relatively unexplored route to modulate these properties in MOFs. Therefore, in the present study, a general method for selecting metal dopant is worked out in theory and validated by experiment, retaining MIL-125 and UiO-66 as the model systems. Metal mixing enables targeted optimization of key electronic structure parameters. This method is applicable to any MOF architecture and can serve as a roadmap for future synthesis of MOFs with predefined properties

Interactive digital signal processor

The Interactive Digital Signal Processor (IDSP) is examined. It consists of a set of time series analysis Operators each of which operates on an input file to produce an output file. The operators can be executed in any order that makes sense and recursively, if desired. The operators are the various algorithms used in digital time series analysis work. User written operators can be easily interfaced to the sysatem. The system can be operated both interactively and in batch mode. In IDSP a file can consist of up to n (currently n=8) simultaneous time series. IDSP currently includes over thirty standard operators that range from Fourier transform operations, design and application of digital filters, eigenvalue analysis, to operators that provide graphical output, allow batch operation, editing and display information

Notes Toward a Review of IRL and Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

A review of Tommy Pico's recent poetry collections, IRL and Nature Poem

Magnetic field waves at Uranus

The proposed research efforts funded by the UDAP grant to the BRI involve the study of magnetic field waves associated with the Uranian bow shock. This is a collaborative venture bringing together investigators at the BRI, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). In addition, other collaborations have been formed with investigators granted UDAP funds for similar studies and with investigators affiliated with other Voyager experiments. These investigations and the corresponding collaborations are included in the report. The proposed effort as originally conceived included an examination of waves downstream from the shock within the magnetosheath. However, the observations of unexpected complexity and diversity within the upstream region have necessitated that we confine our efforts to those observations recorded upstream of the bow shock on the inbound and outbound legs of the encounter by the Voyager 2 spacecraft

`To Be Of Use': Contemporary American Women's Poetry of Work and Workers

In this dissertation, I examine three genres of contemporary women's poetry of work and workers: the historical long poem, the lyric poem, and the hybrid lyric-narrative; identify the poetic devices and imagery which are designed to generate an empathetic response; explain how the poems use empathetic response to engage readers in ethical contemplation; then explore the implicit and explicit ethical demands made in the poetry. This study of the poetics of empathy and ethics in contemporary American women's poetry of work and workers is unique, on the one hand, in its grouping of writers, its emphasis on poetics, prosody, and formal structure rather than on theme, authenticity of representation, or authorial biography, and, on the other hand, in its intersection with aesthetics, and its critical appropriation of certain ideas from ethical literary criticism and from sociological, psychological, and cognitive studies of empathy. Additionally, this study's concern with ethics places it within a growing body of contemporary scholarship on literature and ethics.The chapters of the dissertation are organized around categories of poetic genre: the long poem, the lyric poem, and the hybrid lyric narrative. In chapter two, I analyze how poems channel empathetic response toward ethical ends in historical long poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Chris Llewellyn, and Diane Gilliam Fisher. In chapter three, I analyze two modes of the ethical lyric, the family poem and the protean narrator poem, in work by Marge Piercy, Maggie Anderson, and Dorianne Laux. In chapter four, I explore how June Jordan and Lorna Dee Cervantes use a hybrid lyric-narrative form to create a dialectical poetic space within which the relationships between the individual and the world, the self and the other, the private and the public, are subject to an ethical interrogation. The conclusion opens with a short meditation on two recurring themes in women's poetry of work and workers followed by a survey of the cultural work poetry does in working-class communities. In section one of chapter five, I offer a selection of women's poetry that operates explicitly to hail other members of the working class, using empathy to create solidarity rather than to serve a class-crossing epistemological purpose. In the second section of the chapter, I explore how poets put their poetries to work on behalf of working-class and underclass communities. Section three of the conclusion offers a survey of small presses and little magazines currently publishing working-class writing