Globally Connected

Identifying the brain's most globally connected regions

Recent advances in brain connectivity methods have made it possible to identify hubs-the brain's most globally connected regions. Such regions are essential for coordinating brain functions due to their connectivity with numerous regions with a variety of specializations. Current structural and functional connectivity methods generally agree that default mode network (DMN) regions have among th...

User-Relative Names for Globally Connected Personal Devices

Personal devices such as mobile phones, digital music players, personal digital assistants, console gaming systems, and digital cameras are now ubiquitous in the lives of ordinary people. As these devices proliferate, peer-to-peer connectivity between them is increasingly important. For example, a user may copy photos from a camera to a PC for storage, to a web page for publishing, or to a phot...

Influenza Pandemics in Singapore, a Tropical, Globally Connected City

Tropical cities such as Singapore do not have well-defined influenza seasons but have not been spared from influenza pandemics. The 1918 epidemic in Singapore, which was then already a major global trading hub, occurred in 2 waves, June-July, and October-November, and resulted in > or = 2,870 deaths. The excess mortality rate was higher than that for industrialized nations in the Northern Hemis...

The globally Bi-3*-connected property of the honeycomb rectangular torus

The honeycomb rectangular torus is an attractive alternative to existing networks such as mesh-connected networks in parallel and distributed applications because of its low network cost and well-structured connectivity. Assume that m and n are positive even integers with n P 4. It is known that every honeycomb rectangular torus HReTðm; nÞ is a 3-regular bipartite graph. We prove that in any HR...

Structural Saliency: The Detection Of Globally Salient Structures using A Locally Connected Network