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Multicast Handover Agents for Fast Handover in Wireless Multicast Networks

This Letter addresses the fast handover in wireless multicast networks. The existing multicast handover scheme tends to induce unnecessary data transmissions and large handover delay during handover. We propose a Multicast Handover Agent (MHA), which is used to support fast handover and to reduce unnecessary data transmission. In the proposed scheme, each MHA has a cache to maintain a list of active mobile nodes per multicast group, which is used to support the fast leave. The MHA also performs the fast join with its neighboring MHA during handover. By numerical analysis, it is shown that the proposed MHA scheme can give smaller handover delays compared to the existing multicast handover scheme.
Visual reinforcement learning algorithm using self organizing maps and its simulation in OpenGL environment

Recently, the camera systems becomes more available for mobile robots. But scene analysis for generating control signals is still difficult and consumes large computational power. For this problem, the control method which generates the control signals directly from the raw camera images will be effective. In this paper, we use the reinforcement learning using the camera image as input data. For the division of the states represented with camera images, self organizing map is introduced. The division of the states and learning of the control signal using reinforcement learning are executed simultaneously on the map. For examining the performance of this algorithm, we made the simulation system with Graphical User Interface using OpenGL.
Reducing Cross-ISP Traffic in P2P Systems Using Adaptive Search Radius

Peer to Peer communication has become very popular these days . This popularity and increase in P2P traffic has given birth to many internet traffic management problems for service providers. One of these problems is high download traffic of P2P file sharing application for long network distances ,as current applications do not pay attention to network topology while selecting peers for sharing data . To reduce this trans network traffic various solutions have been suggested but all of them lead to compromises for upload rate, or file availability ,or external infrastructure on the internet to support the solution. This papers suggest a modified version of Adaptive search radius algorithm for BitTorrent to solve the problem , at minimum compromise to efficiency of file sharing applications . This papers shows how BitTorrent protocol react to modified adaptive search radius , as it is the most favored application for peer to peer file sharing .
Redi: A Simulator of Stochastic Biochemical Reaction-Diffusion Systems

We present a new model of anisotropic reaction-diffusion systems and the algorithmic framework of the software Redi (Reaction-Diffusion simulator) that implements this model. As illustrative application, we show the ability of Redi to reproduce the observed dynamics of the bicoid protein gradient in the Drosophila Melanogaster embryo.
The Theoretical Population-Level Impact of a Prophylactic Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine

Background. The ongoing development of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) raises important questions about the impact of various vaccination strategies. Methods. Two mathematical models are developed to explore the population-level impact of an HPV vaccine. The first model focuses on the infection process and the second on the disease process (specifically, cervical carcinoma in situ and cancer). Results. Both population characteristics (ie, sexual mixing and rates of sex partner change) and vaccine characteristics affect the steady state prevalence of HPV that would be expected if a vaccine program is implemented. Under a particular set of assumptions, we find that vaccinating both men and women against a specific HPV type would result in a 44% decrease in prevalence of that type whereas vaccinating only women would result in a 30% reduction. We also find that if a vaccine gives protection against some, but not all, high risk types of HPV, the reduction in disease may be less than the reduction in HPV because the remaining high risk HPV types may replace the disease caused by the eliminated types. Conclusions. A multivalent vaccine containing the majority of disease-causing HPV types would greatly reduce the need for colposcopy, biopsy and treatment. However, it is unlikely that Pap-screening programs would become redundant unless the vaccine is highly effective and coverage is widespread. In contrast to less common infections that are primarily restricted to core groups, targeting the vaccine towards the most sexually active individuals is less effective for a common sexually transmitted infection such as HPV.
Developing Youth Football Players

Chapter 1 The Natural Development of Young Players Chapter 2 A Successful Approach to Coaching Football Chapter 3 Coaching Age-Appropriate Football Chapter 4 Games for Basic Abilities and Capacities - Level 1 Chapter 5 Developing Football Intelligence Chapter 6 Games for MiniFootball - Level 2 Chapter 7 Games for 7-on-7 Football - Level 3 Chapter 8 Developing Young Goalkeepers - Level 3 Chapter 9 Games for 8-on-8 Football - Level 4.
Effect of Compressive Strength on γ-Radiation Attenuation Coefficients for High Performance Concrete

that the compressive strength of heavyweight HPCs plays an important role in enhancing the attenuation of γ-rays. The compressive strength and attenuation of γ-rays have a near to linear relation. While in the normal concrete, the strength has no effect on the attenuation of γ-radiation. The mass attenuation coefficients were also compared with the values obtained by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The comparison showed a reasonable agreement. It was observed that the attenuation of γ-rays is considerably affected by concrete density.
Czech treebanking unlimited

We build a large treebank of Czech, avoiding manual effort by using a parser, supplemented by a rule-based correction too l. A p tentially underspecified morphological and syntactic annotation sch eme offers multiple visualisation and export options, cust omizable in shape and detail according to the preferences of humans or compute r applications. The annotation scheme consists of three lay ers: graphemics, morphology and constituency-based syntax, and is supporte d by a lexicon (with a morphological, multi-word and syntact ic part) and a grammar. Annotation on any of the interlinked layers can be missing; ambiguous or undecidable phenomena are represent ed by underspecification and distributive disjunction.
Why gender matters: reflections from the Livestock-Water Productivity Research Project

In Humphreys, E. ; Bayot, R. S. ; van Brakel, M. ; Gichuki, F. ; Svendsen, M. ; Wester, P.; Huber-Lee, A. ; Cook, S. Douthwaite, B. ; Hoanh, Chu Thai; Johnson, N. ; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie; Vidal, A. ; MacIntyre, I. ; MacIntyre, R. (Eds.). Fighting poverty through sustainable water use: proceedings of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10-14 November 2008. Vol.2. Increasing rainwater productivity; Multi-purpose water systems. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food
Space for sustainability? From curriculum to critical thinking in Australian tourism higher education

The role of sustainability in education continues to garner interest. However, few empirical studies have examined explicitly how tourism higher education engages with the principles of Education for Sustainability (EfS). This thesis used content analysis and in-depth interviewing to explore the presence of EfS within tourism university curricula. In the Australian context, at least, it appears that sustainability was generally poorly stated or inferred in curricula. Tourism academics revealed ideological differences and were faced with a number of dilemmas in terms of how sustainability was perceived, constructed and taught. The findings underscore the need for an alternative, critical approach to sustainability in tourism curriculum; without this, it will be difficult to challenge the current ‘business as usual’ approach.
Dynamic Publish / Subscribe Topics in the Scripted BML Server

Version 2.3 Scripted BML Server (SBMLServer) used JBoss messaging’s implementation of Java Messaging Service (JMS) version 1.1 with predefined static topics to which subscribers could subscribe at run time. Under this approach, some topics that a subscriber required might not have been defined when needed. Also, to add a new topic requires updating a topic configuration file read by SBMLServer at startup and adding a new message bean to be deployed by JMS. To allow for dynamic topic definition, we have modified SBMLServer to use one static topic plus the message selectors available in JMS to filter output to clients. This modification provides one Web method that allows clients to retrieve a list of message selectors currently defined within SBMLServer, and another Web method that allows clients to define a new message selector. All clients must subscribe to the one static topic optionally specifying message selectors defined previously with the server. The server keeps track of the different message selectors and tags any outgoing JMS messages with the correct message selector based on the associated query. This second level of filtering for topics allows the JMS middleware to perform message filtering based on the message selectors. Thus the client need have only one static topic that is filtered to clients, based on message properties. This paper describes the design rationale and implementation of the features, and concludes with projection of an enhancement that will allow the use of JMS with an SBML interface available across different possible client languages.
Thermomechanical Reliability Challenges For 3D Interconnects With Through-Silicon Vias

Continual scaling of on‐chip wiring structures has brought significant challenges for materials and processes beyond the 32 nm technology node in microelectronics. Recently three‐dimensional (3‐D) integration with through‐silicon‐vias (TSVs) has emerged as an effective solution to meet the future interconnect requirement. Among others, thermo‐mechanical reliability is a key concern for the development of TSV structures used in die stacking as 3‐D interconnects. This paper examines the effects of thermally induced stresses on interfacial reliability of TSV structures. First, three‐dimensional distribution of the thermal stress near the TSV and the wafer surface is analyzed. Using a linear superposition method, a semi‐analytic solution is developed for a simplified structure consisting of a single TSV embedded in a silicon (Si) wafer. The solution is verified for relatively thick wafers by comparing to numerical results from finite element analysis (FEA). The stress analysis suggests interfacial delamination as a potential failure mechanism for the TSV structure. An analytical solution is then obtained for the steady‐state energy release rate as the upper bound for the interfacial fracture driving force, while the effect of crack length is evaluated numerically by FEA. With these results, the effects of the TSV dimensions (e.g., via diameter and wafer thickness) on the interfacial reliability are elucidated. Furthermore, the effects of via material properties are discussed.
Cognitive Load Reduction Through the use of Building Blocks in The Design of Decision Support Systems

Processes and tasks in organizations become increasingly complex and dynamic. This requires managers of expert teams to quickly gain knowledge and insight outside their prime area of expertise. In these situations analysis tools and decision support tools are required. Often, such tools are used by experts to compose models that managers can use to gain specific insight in complex tasks and decisions. An observed paradox in this process is that once the first model is made, the insight into the system reveals the “ real problem” and thus several iterations of the analysis, design and modeling are required to create a model that provides the required support. A proposed solution to increase the efficiency of re-designing is the use of patterns, also named building blocks. This allows the expert to re-use components to accommodate new requirements. However, the advantage of building blocks goes beyond re-use, design efficiency and flexibility. This paper argues that in addition to the benefits described above, there is a specific added value for the use of building blocks by novices to acquire analysis, modeling and design skills. We propose that building blocks decrease the cognitive load of both the design task and the effort of acquiring these skills. We use cognitive load theory from educational psychology to theoretically underpin this proposition. Empirical evidence is presented through two exploratory experiments.
Interaction of Di-2-pyridylketone 2-pyridine Carboxylic Acid Hydrazone and Its Copper Complex with BSA: Effect on Antitumor Activity as Revealed by Spectroscopic Studies

The drug, di-2-pyridylketone-2-pyridine carboxylic acid hydrazone (DPPCAH) and its copper complex (DPPCAH-Cu) exhibit significant antitumor activity. However, the mechanism of their pharmacological interaction with the biological molecule bovine serum albumin (BSA) remains poorly understood. The present study elucidates the interactions between the drug and BSA through MTT assays, spectroscopic methods and molecular docking analysis. Our results indicate that BSA could attenuate effect on the cytotoxicity of DPPCAH, but not DPPCAH-Cu. Data from fluorescence quenching measurements demonstrated that both DPPCAH and DPPCAH-Cu could bind to BSA, with a reversed effect on the environment of tryptophan residues in polarity. CD spectra revealed that the DPPCAH-Cu exerted a slightly stronger effect on the secondary structure of BSA than DPPCAH. The association constant of DPPCAH with BSA was greater than that of DPPCAH-Cu. Docking studies indicated that the binding of DPPCAH to BSA involved a greater number of hydrogen bonds compared to DPPCAH-Cu. The calculated distances between bound ligands and tryptophans in BSA were in agreement with fluorescence resonance energy transfer results. Thus, the binding affinity of the drug (DPPCAH or DPPCAH-Cu) with BSA partially contributes to its antitumor activity; the greater the drug affinity is to BSA, the less is its antitumor activity.
Research Report Clustering Hypertext with Applications to Web Searching Limited Distribution Notice Clustering Hypertext with Applications to Web Searching

This report has been submitted for publication outside of IBM and will probably be copyrighted if accepted for publication. It has been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be limited to peer communications and speciic requests. After outside publication, requests should be lled only by reprints or legally obtained copies of the article (e.g., payment of royalties). ABSTRACT: Clustering separates unrelated documents and groups related documents, and is useful for discrimination, disambiguation, summarization, organization, and navigation of unstructured collections of hypertext documents. We propose a novel clustering algorithm that clusters hypertext documents using words (contained in the document), out-links (from the document), and in-links (to the document). The algorithm automatically determines the relative importance of words, out-links, and in-links for a given collection of hypertext documents. We annotate each cluster using six information nuggets: summary, breakthrough, review, keywords, citation, and reference. These nuggets constitute high-quality information resources that are representatives of the content of the clusters, and are extremely eeective in compactly summarizing and navigating the collection of hypertext documents. We employ web searching as an application to illustrate our results.
ECONOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP ECONOMIC GROWTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN EU & TURKEY

Unemployment, in Turkey as well as in the whole, world poses huge economic problems. When considering Turkey's economy with a continued growth but a sustainable growth trend that cannot be provided and cannot be avoided in unemployment. The concepts of unemployment and economic growth in the macro and micro level are the subject of many studies. Economists look for solutions to these problems that are faced by each country; unemployment, unemployment causes, economic growths are all concepts that are discussed. Turkey's population growth rate is high, investment and capital accumulation at the desired level cannot be performed, the quality of labor as a lack of economic and political instability, informal employment, the existence of inter-regional disparities, the lack of sufficient support in agriculture contribute to the many reasons such as unemployment, the foundation raised as an issue is caused to the end. One of the biggest problems faced by Turkey's economy has long been the problems of unemployment. Many policies have been identified and implemented to combat unemployment have been studied. High rates of growth to reduce unemployment are among the most important of these policies. The relationship between unemployment and growth for the first time was examined by Arthur M. Okun (1962). The main objective of this study with the participation of Croatia in 2013 with 28 member countries of the European Union and in Turkey for the period 2001-2011 is to examine and test the relationship between economic growth and unemployment is variable. Analysis Breitung (2000), ADF Fisher and Levin, Lin and Chu (2002) panel unit root tests, Westerlund (2007) panel cointegration tests are used. Breitung (2000), ADF Fisher and Levin, Lin and Chu (2002) tests taken by the series of first differences were stagnant. In addition, error correction model established between unemployment and economic growth Hausman tests were performed, and long-term parameters have been shown to be homogeneous, long-and short-term relationships Average Pooled Estimator Group (PMG) and have been estimated. Unemployment and economic growth variables among long-term relationships Westerlund (2007) panel co-integration test with the tested and analysis of our results of unemployment in the short and long-term parameters are significant and economic growth on the long term effects of positive and short-term effect was negative, was observed. In addition, a 1% increase in unemployment in the long-term economic growth, while an increase of 0.35%, a decrease of 0.26% in the short term cause has been determined.
Marginalized Non-Traditional Adult Learners: Beyond Economics

Changing demographics and patterns of higher education participation in many countries, including Canada, have prompted a growing interest in improving access for non-traditional adult learners. This paper focuses on the results of a research study funded by the Canadian Council on Learning that profiles 71 learners in three Canadian university-level Radical Humanities programs designed for low-income people. Four thematic areas explore the barriers and supports that impact students’ ability to access post-secondary education: (1) barriers to further education, (2) concept of self as learner, (3) learning space, and (4) role of the humanities. This paper argues that while poverty limits educational participation, a greater challenge is posed for marginalized non-traditional adult learners by complex relationships among economic and non-material barriers that limit their agency. Effectively increasing post-secondary participation rates for marginalized non-traditional adult learners cannot be achieved by addressing economic issues alone but by addressing the structural nature and impact of inter-related economic and non-material barriers.
Enteral Immunomodulatory Diet (Omega-3 Fatty Acid, γ-Linolenic Acid and Antioxidant Supplementation) for Acute Lung Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Enteral immunomodulatory nutrition is considered as a promising therapy for the treatment of acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS). However, there are still some divergences, and it is unclear whether this treatment should be recommended for patients with ALI/ARDS. Therefore, we conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the efficacy and safety of an enteral immunomodulatory diet on the clinical outcomes of ALI/ARDS patients. Methods: We retrieved potentially relevant clinical trials though electronic databases. All trials of enteral immunomodulatory diet for ALI/ARDS were included. Analyses of the overall all-cause mortality, 28-day ventilator-free days and 28-day intensive care unit (ICU) free days were conducted. Results: In total six controlled trials were evaluated. The pooled results did not show a significant reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality (M-H RR (the overall Mantel-Haenszel relative risk), 0.81 (95% CI, 0.50–1.31); p = 0.38; 6 trials, n = 717) in ALI/ARDS patients treated with the immunomodulatory diet. This treatment also did not extend the ventilator-free days and ICU-free days. However, patients with high mortality might benefit from this treatment. Conclusions: The enteral immunomodulatory diet could not reduce the severity of the patients with ALI/ARDS. Whereas, for ALI/ARDS patients with high mortality, this treatment might reduce the all-cause mortality, but its use should be treated with discretion.
A visual analytics approach to understanding care process variation and conformance

With greater pressures of providing high-quality care at lower cost due to a changing financial and policy environment, the ability to understand variations in care delivery and associated outcomes and act upon this understanding is of critical importance. Building on prior work in visualizing healthcare event sequences and in collaboration with our clinical partner, we describe our process in developing a multiple, coordinated visualization system that helps identify and analyze care processes and their conformance to existing care guidelines. We demonstrate our system using data of 5,784 pediatric emergency department visits over a 13-month period for which asthma was the primary diagnosis.
1/4-BPS M-theory bubbles with SO(3) × SO(4) symmetry

In this paper we generalize the work of Lin, Lunin and Maldacena on the classification of 1/2-BPS M-theory solutions to a specific class of 1/4-BPS configurations. We are interested in the solutions of 11 dimensional supergravity with SO(3) × SO(4) symmetry, and it is shown that such solutions are constructed over a one-parameter familiy of 4 dimensional almost Calabi-Yau spaces. Through analytic continuations we can obtain M-theory solutions having AdS2 × S3 or AdS3 × S2 factors. It is shown that our result is equivalent to the AdS solutions which have been recently reported as the near-horizon geometry of M2 or M5-branes wrapped on 2 or 4-cycles in Calabi-Yau threefolds. We also discuss the hierarchy of M-theory bubbles with different number of supersymmetries.