Lecture 6 B-splines(Uniform and Non-uniform) 6.1 Introduction The formulation of uniform B-splines can be generalized to accomplish certain objectives These include Non-uniform parameterization Greater general flexibility Change of one polygon vertex in a Bezier curve or of one data point in a cardinal(or interpolatory) spline curve changes entire curve(global schemes) Remove necessity to increase degree of Bezier curves or construct composite Bezier curves

Classification of diabetes(ADA -1997) Type 1 .(beta-cell destruction, usually leading to absolute insulin deficiency) Autoimmune Idiopathic Type2 (may range from predominantly insulin resistance with relative insulin deficiency to a predominantly secretory defect with or without insulin resistance)

History and development of Endocrinology(1) Roughly a hundred years ago, Starling coined the term hormone to describe secretin, a substance secreted by the small intestine into the blood stream to stimulate pancreatic secretion. In his Croonian Lectures, Starling considered the endo- crine and nervous systems as two distinct mechanisms for coordination and control of organ function. Thus, endocrinology found its first home in the discipline of mammalian physiology

Carrier Sense Multiple Access(CSMA) In certain situations nodes can hear each other by listening to the channel “Carrier Sensing CSMA: Polite version of Aloha Nodes listen to the channel before they start transmission Channel idle=> Transmit Channel busy = Wait (join backlog) When do backlogged nodes transmit? When channel becomes idle backlogged nodes attempt transmission with probability q=1 Persistent protocol, q=1 Non-persistent protocol,< 1

Multiple Access shared transmission medium a receiver can hear multiple transmitters a transmitter can be heard by multiple receivers the major problem with multi-access is allocating the channel between the users the nodes do not know when the other nodes have data to send Need to coordinate transmissions

Introduction Frequency-selective fading is a dominant impairment in mobile communications Fading reduces receive signal-to-noise ratio and degrades the bit-error-rate(BER) Frequency selectivity of the channel, i. e, delay spread, induces inter-symbol interference(ISI) To combat frequency-selective fading

September 24, 2003 Scheme Tutor notes In scheme tutor stick to r5rs scheme The Tutor uses SCM, not miT scheme Strategy: click\Check\button on initial code, in order to view test cases pt.24,2003 16410/16413 Even more scheme

Prewriting The nature of news What is news? Charles A. Dana, editor of the New york Sun, once defined it as, anything that interests a large part of the community and has never been brought to its attention before.\ In other words news is what people are talking about. News is new. As Evelyn Waugh described it, News is what the chap who doesn t care much about anything wants to read 1. Put another way, news is a change in the status quo. But does a change in the status quo guarantee

Particularism and virtue ethics I. Universalism and Particularism We've considered before some basic questions that we would expect a moral theory to answer i)Which acts are right and which are wrong? Which acts ought we to perform(understanding the\ought\as a moral