... was a child Her father was head of a gang of crooks in Chicago and I was a member ofthe gang 'Elsie's father thought ofthe secret writing ofthe dancing men The members ofthe gang used it to ... stick with the noose on the end He caught the snake's head in the noose Then he threw the snake into the iron safe and closed the door The metal door clanged shut TheSpeckledBand N ext morning, ... what about the whistle in the night?' said Holmes 'And the dying woman's words about the "speckled band" ?' 'I don't know,' I said 'Perhaps thebandof gypsies ' Suddenly the door of our room...
... coquettishly upon one side of its pink curve The skull was of enormous capacity, and yet as I looked down I saw to my amazement that the figure ofthe man was small and frail, twisted in the shoulders and ... increase ofthe creatures You and I, Watson, we have done our part Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible! You'll convey all that is in your mind." I left him full ofthe image ... and his character He is an amateur of crime, as I am of disease For him the villain, for me the microbe There are my prisons," he continued, pointing to a row of bottles and jars which stood upon...
... Smith "Turn up the gas? Ah, the shadows begin to fall, they? Yes, I will turn it up, that I may see you the better." He crossed the room and the light suddenly brightened "Is there any other little ... in the trial." There was a sudden rush and a scuffle, followed by the clash of iron and a cry of pain "You'll only get yourself hurt," said the inspector "Stand still, will you?" There was the ... gasped "The spring! It drew blood This box this on the table." "The very one, by George! And it may as well leave the room in my pocket There goes your last shred of evidence But you have the truth...
... made of particles as well The growth of trees, the colours ofthe sky, the burning of fire, the warmth of a human body, the waves ofthe sea and the mood changes of people are all composed of particles ... this ability The sense of hearing registers the various sounds during the rise, the fall and the landing ofthe stone Our eyes track the location ofthe stone from one point to the next All observations ... develop the concept of ‘time’ from the comparison of motions in their surroundings Grown-ups take as a standard the motion ofthe Sun and call the resulting type of time local time From the Moon they...
... slope-voltage output ofthe syllabic filter is the modulating input to the PAM The step-function response ofthe syllabic filter is related to the syllabic rate of speech, is independent ofthe sampling ... These characteristics include the following + Changes in the slope ofthe analog input signal determine the step-size changes ofthe digital output signal + The feedback loop is adaptive to the ... the current samples and two previous samples ofthe error signal The digital output signal is a binary signal having the same polarity as the input signal from the comparator at the time of the...
... camera The energy resolution ofthe setup during these experiments is around meV In order to analyze the polarization ofthe single NW emission, a linear polarizer was placed at the entrance ofthe ... respectively The polarization ofthe NBE emission is related to the selection rules for the excitonic transitions, which can be deduced from the k·p theory [19] The polarization ratio ofthe three ... Figure 1b The SEM analyses show that the NWs not have a specific direction with respect to the substrate The diameter is dispersed in the range of 20 to 100 nm and the length is in the range of 500...
... that of “a sculptor at work on a statue; the marble block is the material cause, the action of sculpting the efficient cause, the formal cause is the shape ofthe statue, and the final cause is the ... and the improviser technically masters the execution of these sound elements so they can be repeated precisely The milieu is the beginning point ofthe improvisation, the line that emerges out of ... 10,000 BC: The 45 Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?), but nevertheless also covers the concept ofthe refrain from the perspective of 1837: The Refrain in a similar vein to the present...
... be of finite step changes, and these rates often not match those calculated from the dual feedback algorithm under the optimistic assumption that the BS can, most ofthe time, satisfy the bandwidth ... predictive indicator on the queue length variation in order to calculate the next bandwidth request, thus enhancing the reliability ofthe request The obvious weakness ofthe dual feedback 354 ... seen from the Table that when the fading is bad ( γ =2dB), the average service bandwidth, BWser, exceeds the agreed admission bandwidth, BWadm Similarly, a close look at the variation ofthe instantaneous...
... patterns ofthe MWCNTs is the intensity ofthe (002) diffraction peak Because the contribution ofthe intratube structure to the (002) peak increased with wall number [59], the much lower intensity of ... Table 1, the smaller intensity ratio of D to G band (ID/IG) and full width at half maximum (FWHM) ofthe G band, as well as the slightly higher IG’/IG of MWCNT-VAST compared to the other two ... absorption performance ofthe MWCNT/epoxy composites, the reflection loss ofthe prepared metal-backed single-layered composites was measured in the X -band The frequency dependences ofthe microwave absorbing...
... to the myofibrils axis within the I -band The fractures were further located at the N-lines ofthe myofibrils (Fig 5A,B) and imputed to the proteolysis and the rigor mortis contraction [33] On the ... the Z-line and the N1 line Furthermore, we detected another location of calpain at the midpoint ofthe I -band, in accordance with previous electron microscopy data [28] showing the presence of ... labelling with the CP1 Ig led to an increase ofthe density in the center ofthe I -band at the N2 position and a dark gray line was observed at the Z-line periphery (Fig 4B) This was also the case...
... created in the crystal which supports a mode that is in theband gap This mode is forbidden from propagating in the crystal because it falls in theband gap When a bend needs to be created in the waveguide, ... beams passing through the wave guides In addition, the 3D PBG material is chosen to exhibit an abrupt variation in the photon density of states near the transition frequency ofthe atoms This leads ... line defect ofthe same shape is introduced It is impossible for light to escape (since it cannot propagate in the bulk crystal) The only possibility is for the mode to propagate through the line...
... Then the bandit sat on one end ofthe plank He slid the rock off the bench The rock fell and landed on one end ofthe plank Smack! The end ofthe plank where the rock fell went down fast But the ... bench that was in the sun The sun shone on the two lenses ofthe glasses The lenses glinted in the sun The bandit slid the glasses a bit to the left He slid the glasses until one ofthe lenses sent ... crash The bandit landed on the deck Then—lap, lap, lap—that was the end ofthe milk 32 33 The Chips Once Mom left a big bag of chips on the top shelf in the kitchen The cat will not get them up there,”...
... ofthe single -band model (U ′ = 0, J = 0) with that ofthe two -band models (U ′ = U, J = 0) Fig shows the DOS ofthe single band and two -band models for various values of U It is seen that the ... values of J Since the system is isotropic the Fermi energy EF is exactly located at the origin The Mott transitions appear simutanously on two orbitals In order to show the effect oftheband degeneracy, ... except the fact that the effect oftheband degeneracy was stronger than that predicted by DMFT and CPA When U > 1.0W both the single -band and two -band models are in isulating phase Fig shows how the...
... such that bandwidth re-allocation is not necessary for handoffs ofthe user among the RSs ofthe same zone as displayed in Figure The size of a zone is defined to be the hop count ofthe most ... probability ofthe mobile user at RSi, j in the case ofthe user not moving outsize ofthe zone If we assume the bandwidth allocated in the zone is N*BW, the satisfaction rate S for the allocation ... over the total number of handoff (4) Bandwidth Utilization is the actual utilization rate of system resources (5) Handoff Call Degradation Ratio is the ratio ofthe case that the required bandwidth...
... sycophants of a militant Proletariat I mean true Whig principles the principles of Halifax, of Somers, of Locke, of Addison, and of Steele the principles ofthe Bill of Rights and of "the Glorious ... troop of horse to fight on the side ofthe Commonwealth My father was always very proud ofthe fact that the intellectual father ofthe Whigs was so closely united with our ancestor A propos of ... Council as one ofthe bonds that unite the Colonies and the Mother Country." He then went on to use the article as the foundation for his speech I had talked about the Judicial Committee ofthe Privy...
... performances for the same power consumption In this case, the challenge of co-design consists of finding the best tradeoff between the maximum power gain ofthe LNA and the feasibility of an antenna ... large bandwidth) is used to excite the antenna Keeping the waveform ofthe impulse unchanged is another important issue ofthe UWB antennas Otherwise, the ringing effect will arise and the signal ... circuits Therefore, the need to have wideband modeling of UWB antennas is increased as the design complexity ofthe RF system increases The first part of this research intends to investigate the application...
... function ofthe gate line, and are the attenuation and the phase shift per section ofthe gate line respectively, is the radian gate line cut-off frequency and is the radian cut-off frequency ofthe ... number of FETS in the amplifier Next Vck is expressed in terms ofthe voltage at the gate terminal ofthe kth FET and is given by: (2.28) Where, Vi is the input voltage ofthe amplifier, is the ... across the gate-to-source capacitance ofthe kth FET, is the propagation constant ofthe drain line, and are the attenuation and the phase shift per section ofthe drain line respectively, n is the...
... than the bandwidth ofthe transferred signal to avoid signal distortion Furthermore, for narrowband systems, the properties ofthe antenna usually not change significantly over the occupied bandwidth ... general k = k The size ofthe delay bins determines the time delay resolution ofthe model; therefore a reasonable bin size is the resolution ofthe specific measurements (if the model is measurement ... increases with the number of fingers Thus the performance ofthe Rake receiver is largely based on the number of fingers, the number of multipath components, their amplitude statistics, and the relative...