Surprise, surprise, it is the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the trade union notorious throughout the world for being ¿useless,¿ that has taken on Wal-Mart and succeeded in setting up workplace union branches. ...

The cubic hyperpolarizabilities of the zero-generation dendrimers 1¿3 and related first generation dendrimers have been assessed over the spectral range 520¿1600 nm using the Z-scan technique and ~150 fs pulses. The complexes ...

Feature extraction is an effective step in data mining and machine learning. While many feature extraction methods have been proposed for clustering, classification and regression, very limited work has been done on ...

Bulk samples, layers, quantum well, and quantum dot structures of II-Mn-VI samples all show coexistence of slow and fast components of Mn2+ photoluminescence decay. Thus, fast photoluminescence decay cannot be re- lated ...

The Neoproterozoic to end-Paleozoic Terra Australis orogen extended along the Gondwana margin of the paleo-Pacific Ocean, and it now provides a detailed record of orogenic activity and continental stabilization within an ...

Affine precoding superimposes training signals on linearly precoded data. It enhances symbol recovery and effectively identifies the frequency-selective fading channel. Previous works have shown its advantage over the ...

Developing accurate and powerful electromyogram (EMG) driven prostheses controllers that can provide the amputees with effective control on their artificial limbs, has been the focus of a great deal of research in the past ...