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Blind estimation of channel BERs in a multi-receiver network (2004)

In wireless communications, it is often desirable to merge bit decisions from multiple receivers to improve overall link performance. It is well known that in order to fuse bit decisions optimally from a network of receivers, precise knowledge of receiver bit error rates (BERs) is needed. This information, however, is rarely available in practice. We present an iterative procedure for blindly estimating receiver BERs to enable near optimal blind fusion of bit decisions in a multi-receiver network. We show that the solution of the estimation problem is a structured eigenvalue task and propose a modified power method procedure to perform it. We prove that the desired solution is a stable point of the algorithm and the algorithm is locally stable. Furthermore, we show, via simulations, that the technique results in excellent performance in nearly all practical operating scenarios.
Matrix Analysis of Mildly Nonlinear, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Systems With Memory (1982)

A matrix method of analysis is developed for mildly nonlinear, multiple-input, multiple-output systems with memory (e.g., nonlinear multiport networks and multichannel communication systems). The method is based on a Volterra-series representation whose kernels are two-dimensional matrices rather than multidimensional arrays. This is made possible through the use of the Kronecker product of matrices, which results in a compact formulation. The response of the aforementioned systems to multiple sinusoidal excitations is also studied. Moreover, formulas are given for various system operations (e.g., addition, cascading, inversion, and feedback), which can be used to describe a complex system as an interconnection of simple subsystems.
Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music (2020)

Music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. However, the neurological mechanisms by which music induces affect are not fully understood. Our project sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to affective musical stimuli and how physiological and neurological signals recorded from those participants change in accordance with self-reported changes in affect. In this paper, the datasets recorded over the course of this project are presented, including details of the musical stimuli, participant reports of their felt changes in affective states as they listened to the music, and concomitant recordings of physiological and neurological activity. We also include non-identifying meta data on our participant populations for purposes of further exploratory analysis. This data provides a large and valuable novel resource for researchers investigating emotion, music, and how they affect our neural and physiological activity.
MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES DIRECTED AGAINST HUMAN C5 AND C8 BLOCK COMPLEMENT-MEDIATED DAMAGE OF XENOGENEIC CELLS AND ORGANS (1995)

The hyperacute rejection (HAR) of xenotransplanted organs is initiated by the deposition of natural antibodies on donor endothelium followed by the activation of the recipient complement system, which rapidly destroys the graft. Studies of the role of activated complement in HAR have suggested that natural antibody as well as early (C3a, C3b) and late (C5a, C5b-9) activated complement components may contribute to cell activation and damage. Attenuation of HAR has been achieved by blockade of C3 activation with soluble CR1 or consumptive depletion of complement with cobra venom factor; however, similar studies using specific inhibitors of terminal complement components have not been described. To address the contribution of C5a and the membrane attack complex (C5b-9, MAC) to complement-mediated xenogeneic cell and organ damage, we utilized functionally blocking monoclonal antibodies directed against the human terminal complement components C5 and C8. Our data show that both anti-C5 and anti-C8 mAbs protect porcine aortic endothelial cells from membrane damage mediated by human C5b-9. Additionally, both the anti-C5 and anti-C8 mAbs blocked complement-mediated generation of membrane prothrombinase activity on porcine aortic endothelial cells challenged with human serum. To test the ability of these antibodies to attenuate antibody and complement-mediated damage of xenogeneic organs, an ex vivo model was developed wherein isolated rat hearts were perfused with human serum in the presence or absence of the anti-C5 and anti-C8 mAbs. Our data demonstrate that mAbs directed against human C5 and C8 prevented organ damage by human serum complement and suggest that these molecules may serve as potent inhibitors of HAR.
Kinetic Evidence for Duplicity in Ion Transport (1996)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommunicationNEXTKinetic Evidence for Duplicity in Ion TransportGang Deng, Manette Merritt, Keiji Yamashita, Vaclav Janout, Andrzej Sadownik, and Steven L. RegenView Author Information Department of Chemistry and Zettlemoyer Center for Surface Studies, Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015 Cite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 13, 3307–3308Publication Date (Web):April 3, 1996Publication History Received8 August 1995Revised20 February 1996Published online3 April 1996Published inissue 1 January 1996https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja9526877https://doi.org/10.1021/ja9526877rapid-communicationACS PublicationsCopyright © 1996 American Chemical SocietyRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views129Altmetric-Citations16LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-AlertscloseSupporting Info (2)»Supporting Information Supporting Information SUBJECTS:Charge transport,Ions,Kinetics,Membranes,Vesicles Get e-Alerts
Graphical model architectures for speech recognition (2005)

This article discusses the foundations of the use of graphical models for speech recognition as presented in J. R. Deller et al. (1993), X. D. Huang et al. (2001), F. Jelinek (19970, L. R. Rabiner and B. -H. Juang (1993) and S. Young et al. (1990) giving detailed accounts of some of the more successful cases. Our discussion employs dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) and a DBN extension using the Graphical Model Toolkit's (GMTK's) basic template, a dynamic graphical model representation that is more suitable for speech and language systems. While this article concentrates on speech recognition, it should be noted that many of the ideas presented here are also applicable to natural language processing and general time-series analysis.
Photocatalytic Sensor for Chemical Oxygen Demand Determination Based on Oxygen Electrode (2000)

The construction and performance evaluation of a novel Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) sensor is described. The sensor measures, using an oxygen electrode, a decrease of dissolved oxygen of a given sample resulting from photocatalytic oxidation of the organic compounds therein. As the photocatalyst, titanium dioxide (TiO2) fine particles adsorbed on a translucent poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) membrane was used. The oxygen electrode with the membrane attached on its tip was used as the sensor probe. The operation characteristics of the sensor are demonstrated using an artificial wastewater and real water samples from lakes in Japan. This method is considered to be reliable, in that the observed parameter is close to the theoretical definition of chemical oxygen demand (COD), the amount of oxygen consumed for oxidation of organic compounds.
In-NoC Circuits for Low-Latency Cache Coherence in Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures (2018)

Scalable communication and low latency memory accesses are the deciding factors for future manycore performance. An efficient hardware infrastructure is required, since raw performance must be balanced with area and power constraints. In distributed shared-memory (DSM) architectures, caches help in reducing costly remote accesses but must be kept coherent. To enable scalable coherence in manycore systems, the recently proposed region-based cache coherence defines configurable regions, i.e. cache coherent sub-sections of a manycore architecture. In this paper, a technique for supporting the regionbased cache coherence mechanism by using so called in-NoC circuits (INCs) in a hybrid networks-on-chip is proposed. These circuits are automatically established based on traffic monitoring and traffic analysis to connect nodes (i.e. routers) in the network to enable a shortcut for packets, reducing their latency. The INCs can be used by packets stemming from different sources and targeting different destinations in contrast to traditional end-toend circuits. Depending on the coherence region, our evaluations of several benchmarks show a latency reduction of up to 45% on average in a 4x4 mesh that further increases with the mesh size. The FPGA synthesis of a router from a scientific DSM architecture that was extended with the presented features shows additional costs of up to 31% more LUTs and 20% more Flip Flops.
Moths of Saturniidae in the Nara Campus of Kinki University [Japan] (2004)

Synopsis Moths of Saturniidae were observed in the Nara Campus of Kinki University, halfway up the Yata Hills with coppice, in Nara prefecture in central Japan. Following seven species of moths of Saturniidae were recorded. 1. Antheraea yamamai yamamai (Guerin-Meneville) Adult emergence: August- September(One generation) Larva emergence: April-July Food plants: Quercus serrata, Q. acutissima, Q. glauca, Lithocarpus edulis, Castanopsis cupidata, Myrica rubra 2. Saturnia jonasii jonasii Butler Adult emergency: October (One generation) Larva emergency: April-July Food plants: Prunus yedoensis, Viburnum dilatatum, Ilex rotunda 3. Saturnia japonica japonica (Moore) Adult emergence: September- October (One generation) 4. Rhodinia fugax fugax (Butler) Adult emergence: November (One generation) Larva emergence: April- July Food plants: Quercus serrata, Q. acutissima, Q. variabilis, Zelkova serrata, Castanea crenata, Celtis sinensis, Prunus yedoensis, P. jamasakura 5. Samia cynthia pryeri (Butler) Adult emergence: May- June and August (TWO generations) Larva emergence: June- July and September- October Food plant: Ilex rotunda, Paulownia tomentosa, Zantoxylum ailanthoides 6. Actias artemis aliena Butler Adult emergence: April- May and July-August (Two generations) Larva emergence: May-June and August- September Food plants: Alnus japonica, A. sieboldiana 7. Actias gnoma gnoma (Butler) Adult emergence: April- May and July-August (Two generations)Larva emergence: May-June and August- September Food plants: Alnus japonica The natural enemies of these moths were parasitic wasps, spiders and wild birds such as crows. The significance of moths of Saturniidae in the coppice was discussed.
Sedimentation and polar order of active bottom-heavy particles (2013)

Self-propelled particles in an external gravitational field have been shown to display both an increased sedimentation length and polar order even without particle interactions. Here, we investigate self-propelled particles which additionally are bottom-heavy, that is they feel a torque aligning them to swim against the gravitational field. For bottom-heavy particles the gravitational field has the two opposite effects of i) sedimentation and ii) upward alignment of the particles' swimming direction. We perform a multipole expansion of the one-particle distribution of non-interacting particles with respect to orientation and derive expressions for sedimentation length and mean particle orientation which we check against Brownian Dynamics simulations. For large strength of gravity or small particle speeds and aligning torque, we observe sedimentation with increased sedimentation length compared with passive colloids but also active colloids without bottom-heaviness. Increasing, for example, swimming speed the sedimentation profile is inverted and the particles swim towards the top wall of the enclosing box. We find maximal orientational order at intermediate swimming speeds for both cases of particles with bottom-heaviness and those without. Ordering unsurprisingly is increased for the bottom-heavy particles, but this difference disappears at higher levels of activity and for very high activities ordering goes to zero in both cases.
Identification of New Flagellar Genes of<i>Salmonella enterica</i>Serovar Typhimurium (2006)

RNA levels of flagellar genes in eight different genetic backgrounds were compared to that of the wild type by DNA microarray analysis. Cluster analysis identified new, potential flagellar genes, three putative methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins, STM3138 (McpA), STM3152 (McpB), and STM3216(McpC), and a CheV homolog, STM2314, in Salmonella, that are not found in Escherichia coli. Isolation and characterization of Mud-lac insertions in cheV, mcpB, mcpC, and the previously uncharacterized aer locus of S. enterica serovar Typhimurium revealed them to be controlled by sigma28-dependent flagellar class 3 promoters. In addition, the srfABC operon previously isolated as an SsrB-regulated operon clustered with the flagellar class 2 operon and was determined to be under FlhDC control. The previously unclassified fliB gene, encoding flagellin methylase, clustered as a class 2 gene, which was verified using reporter fusions, and the fliB transcriptional start site was identified by primer extension analysis. RNA levels of all flagellar genes were elevated in flgM or fliT null strains. RNA levels of class 3 flagellar genes were elevated in a fliS null strain, while deletion of the fliY, fliZ, or flk gene did not affect flagellar RNA levels relative to those of the wild type. The cafA (RNase G) and yhjH genes clustered with flagellar class 3 transcribed genes. Null alleles in cheV, mcpA, mcpB, mcpC, and srfB did not affect motility, while deletion of yhjH did result in reduced motility compared to that of the wild type.
Conceive, Believe and Achieve; A Path to Miniaturization, COTS Infusion, and Size Weight and Power Realization for Flight (2016)

JPL along with other aerospace agencies such as the US Air Force Space Pro-grams and a packaging technology innovator, i3 Electronics, Inc., are evaluating the use of state-of-the-art (SOA) commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and alternative packaging technologies for future high performance and high reliability space applications. Utilization of SOA COTS technologies have resulted in large scale reduction in electronics volume, weight, power, cost and schedule with outstanding electrical performance and high reliability. We will share JPL’s joint design, architectural approach, alternative substrate materials selection, associated processes, and mission assurance role in identifying reliability and qualification risks, as part of the three year Heterogeneous Packaging/Device Integration effort under the guidance and leadership of JPL’s Mission Assurance Directorate.
Ultrahigh‐Throughput Screening to Identify <i>E. coli</i> Cells Expressing Functionally Active Enzymes on their Surface (2007)

We show here that E. coli bacteria that display esterases or lipases on their cell surface together with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) are capable of hydrolysing carboxylic acid esters of biotin tyramide. The tyramide radicals generated by the coupled lipase-peroxidase reaction were short-lived and therefore became covalently attached to reactive tyrosine residues that were located in close vicinity on the surface of a bacterial cell that displayed lipase activity. Up to 120 000 biotinylated tyramide derivatives could be covalently coupled through HRP activation to the surface of a single living E. coli cell. Differences in cellular esterase activity were found to correlate with the amount of biotin tyramide deposited on the cell surface. Selective biotin tyramide labelling of cells that had lipase activity allowed their isolation by magnetic cell sorting from a 1:10(6) mixture of control cells. This strategy of covalently attaching a biotin label to esterase-proficient bacteria might open new avenues to ultrahigh-throughput screening of enzyme libraries for hydrolytic enzymes with enhanced activities or enantioselectivities.
Intraoperative bacterial contamination of vascular grafts: a prospective study. (1985)

The establishment of graft infection depends on host response, an appropriate field and bacterial contamination. Intraoperative bacterial contamination of prosthetic graft material was studied prospectively in 77 patients. Vascular reconstruction was indicated for abdominal aortic aneurysm (15%), claudication (42%), rest pain (25%) and ulceration or gangrene (18%). In 78% of cases the procedure was elective. Staphylococcus epidermidis was isolated in 80% of cultures; mixed flora were more frequent in patients with rest pain (60%) and ulceration or gangrene (45%) than in those with aneurysms (22%) or claudication (16%). Grafts became contaminated in 56% of cases using standard techniques; this was lowered to 35% when the surgeon changed gloves before preclotting the graft. There was no significant difference with respect to the surgeon who performed the operation, the indication for operation, primary versus secondary repair or the use of skin barriers. One patient (1.3%) had an established graft infection. It is concluded that the incidence of contamination is high but may be decreased by glove changing.
Quantification of biotin in serum by competition with solid-phase biotin for binding to peroxidase-avidin conjugate. (1989)

We have developed a simple, fast, accurate, and reproducible method--an Enzyme-Linked Ligand Sorbent Assay (ELLSA)--for quantifying biotin without the use of isotopes and immunological reagents. The analytical principle is based on the competition between biotin of the sample and immobilized biotin, i.e., biotinylated bovine serum albumin coated onto immunoplates, for binding to horseradish peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7)-avidin conjugate. The amount of conjugate bound to immobilized biotin is subsequently measured.
Computation Offloading in Multi-Access Edge Computing Using a Deep Sequential Model Based on Reinforcement Learning (2019)

MEC is an emerging paradigm that utilizes computing resources at the network edge to deploy heterogeneous applications and services. In the MEC system, mobile users and enterprises can offload computation-intensive tasks to nearby computing resources to reduce latency and save energy. When users make offloading decisions, the task dependency needs to be considered. Due to the NP-hardness of the offloading problem, the existing solutions are mainly heuristic, and therefore have difficulties in adapting to the increasingly complex and dynamic applications. To address the challenges of task dependency and adapting to dynamic scenarios, we propose a new DRL-based offloading framework, which can efficiently learn the offloading policy uniquely represented by a specially designed S2S neural network. The proposed DRL solution can automatically discover the common patterns behind various applications so as to infer an optimal offloading policy in different scenarios. Simulation experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed DRL-based method with different data transmission rates and task numbers. The results show that our method outperforms two heuristic baselines and achieves nearly optimal performance.
Software security metric identification framework (SSM) (2009)

Security improvement is the foremost concern for both industry professional and academician. Measurement is one of the most powerful techniques to control an activity. Experts are continuously trying to explore the importance of design knowledge of security. Security of object-oriented software is highly dependent on software design. In order to achieve the security, a metric to quantify the same may be used. Security metrics are high-level quantifiable measures. In order to quantify security, security metric suite is required. Several security models, security metrics, and object-oriented metrics are available in literature. But most of the metric available in literature is not validated and hence are unutilized or under utilized. In absence of any standard framework identifying validated and reliable metric, it seems to be worthwhile developing a viable framework for the development of security metric. The framework proposed in this paper, provides a systematic way to identify security metric suite and if unavailable, develop a validated design security metric
A Review on Marriage Education in Malaysian Higher Education Curriculum (2019)

Marriage is one of the religious requirements in Islam that purposes to fulfill one's needs and ensure human generation's continuity. A marriage built with strong foundation is the main footing of producing a family of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual qualities. The formation and development of a family institution becomes the social agent to the success of a civilisation. In Malaysia particularly, the phenomenon of the breakdown of family institution is getting more alarming. Statistics issued by the Department of Islamic Development in Malaysia (JAKIM) on the divorce rate among Malaysians from 1995 to 2006 show constant increase from year to year. Most of the divorce cases involve couples of young adults. Also, a report done in 2007 suggested that 59.9 percent of the divorces involve marriages aged less than 10 years old. Hence, this research is done to observe and scrutinise the role of higher education system in Malaysia in providing knowledge and creating awareness on the values of marriage and family institution. 20 public universities in Malaysia are included to take part in this research. Structure of academic programs is analysed based on the progress of Mata Pelajaran Umum (General Studies Modules) or MPU as well as elective modules offered in these universities. The findings obtained will manifest the participation of these public universities in the government's mission of minimizing the divorce rates among young couples, and subsequently inhibiting the breakdown of family institution that might contribute to crimes and other negative issues in the long run.
Tecfidera<sup>®</sup>: an Approach for Repurposing (2014)

As a case study of patent coverage for a repurposed drug, Biogen Idec's approach for Tecfidera(®), an oral formulation of dimethyl fumarate, was analyzed. While mixtures of fumarates have been used for over 50 years to treat psoriasis, Tecifidera is approved for the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Biogen pursued claims to pharmaceutical formulations and useful doses for treating multiple sclerosis, an approach that is relevant to pharmaceutical lifecycle management in general. A survey of recent US, EP, and PCT patent applications indicate other companies are developing competing fumarate formulations. While it is possible to pursue secondary patents for compounds without composition of matter coverage, regulatory data exclusivity provides additional protection to delay competitors.