Maine & Maritimes is a utility holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Maine Public Service Co., MAM Utility Services Group, Energy Atlantic, LLC and The Maricor...
On Friday, Jan. 21, 2005, the state of Maine cut the ribbon on its new, Web-based Maine Medicaid Claims System for processing $1.5 billion in annual Medicaid claims and payments. The new $25 million program, which replaced the state's old Honeywell mainframe, was hailed as a more secure system that...
The future viability of the individual health insurance market in Maine is uncertain. Rates have risen steeply in the past two years, making coverage unaffordable for many. This not only results in more people becoming uninsured, it also can cause a deterioration of the average health of the remaining pool...
The architect, and the owners of the 11,000 square foot Center for Environmental Education at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset, Maine, wanted to harness the sun's energy for both power and heat in the newly designed facility. A unique solar co-generating system, Solar Roof was installed on the south facing...
INTRODUCTION The most widely used ceramic materials are alumina, A[l.sub.2][O.sub.3] and zirconia, Zr[O.sub.2], because of their excellent bio-compatibility. The main advantage of A[l.sub.2][O.sub.3] is its high hardness and wear resistance, while Zr[O.sub.2] exhibits higher strength and fracture toughness, besides its lower Young' s modulus (1), (2), (3), (4),...
INTRODUCTION Speech Recognition SR is a technique aimed at converting a speaker's spoken utterance into a text string or other applications. SR is still far from a solved problem. It is quoted that the best reported word-error rates on English broadcast news and conversational telephone speech are 10...
INTRODUCTION Establishing the most favorable vibration operation conditions for swinging screens is the essential problem when devising such equipment. The amplitude and the frequency of vibrations are the decisive factors that influence the vibrating conditions. The sieves operate best in over-critical angular resonant regime, at high frequencies coupled...
INTRODUCTION One of the main purpose in agents communication is to achieve the goals better (10). Suppose that in response to a query, each agent can produce a response set which has a level of uncertainty. Uncertainty in agent response may be attributed to two main reasons, namely,...
INTRODUCTION There are numerous interrelated parameters that influence the axial behavior of a pile subjected to axial load. Leland (1) summarized the key parameters including type of loading, soil, pile characteristics and installation methods. However, in spite numerous experimental investigations and theoretical analysis, new data are believed to...
INTRODUCTION The main objective of this article is to study the transient natural convection inside [LN.sub.2] and [LO.sub.x] cryogenic tanks due to heat transfer from surroundings. In aerospace industry like Single-Stage-To-Orbit SSTO or Reusable Launch Vehicles RLV the volume/weight propellant storage tanks is of vital importance, due to...
INTRODUCTION Red palm weevil RPW, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, invaded Qatif in Eastern region of Saudi Arabia on 1987. RPW has expanded its range very rapidly (1-3). It causes sever damage to date palms and threat the dates industry. In the region, RPW control management is based mainly on the...
INTRODUCTION The essence of Grid Computing in enterprises will be realized as a rule rather than as an exception in the near future. Most of the world-wide researches have aimed at developing a Grid framework that embraces the Linux/Unix clusters, but on the contrary there exists a large...
INTRODUCTION General: Most of the jackets have foundation piles through each main leg which are welded to the structure at deck level. Modeling the cyclic inelastic behavior of legs and braces is of utmost importance in any nonlinear dynamic analysis of offshore jackets. In the past years, considerable...
INTRODUCTION The high demand in multimedia and telecommunication industry for an efficient image compression technique emerged the development of this algorithm. The poor performance of H.26L at lower bit rates and the low quality color reproduction due to lesser bits allocated to chrominance is a real annoyance. The...
INTRODUCTION The term development denotes the pursuit or the realization of improving the socioeconomic status of people. Local development is the promotion of all economic activities, in which a place presents some advantages, as well as the exploitation of all its wealth-producing sources (1), (3), (4). The main...
The magazine is always great! I object to the policy of most of the main stream gun maker, s selling guns to law enforcement that are prohibited to citizens of California and favoring law enforcement over "the people." We either hang together or we hang separately. Please encourage these companies...
********** Historically, crop insurance in Brazil has been offered by the government at both the federal and state levels. In spite of the government's efforts, the experience with crop insurance in Brazil has generally not been satisfactory. The absence of a suitable actuarial method to price crop insurance...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HallMark Cutlery HallMark Cutlery brings back old world tradition with the revered Kissing Crane Brand. Latest in the Line, is the 3-Blade Lock-hack Whiltler [KC3331), which was just introduced at the 2008 Blade Show. The look-back has a yellow Delrin handle with the distinctive...
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Widely known as the FN FAL, SLR, LIA1 and other descriptive acronyms, Fabrique Natioinale's "Fusil Automatique Leger" has been the world's single most successful 7.62 NATO rifle platform. Given the official US Ordnance test designation of "T48," the FAL might have been adopted as the United...
INTRODUCTION Heat Exchanger is process equipment designed for effective transfer of heat energy between two fluids a hot fluid and a cold fluid. Many types of heat exchangers are used in industry, such as shell and tube, double pipe, compact heat exchangers etc, which vary both in application...
INTRODUCTION Majority of geospatial processing systems require some level of interoperability as a fundamental capability. Based on OGC Reference Model (1), spatial interoperability refers to capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer geospatial data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little...
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