This paper proposes a new combinatorial auction protocol called Average-Max-Minimal-Bundle (AM-MB) protocol. The characteristics of the AM-MB protocol are as follows: (i) it is strategyproof, i.e., truth-telling is a dominant strategy, (ii) the computational overhead is very low, since it allocates bundles greedily thereby avoiding an explicit combinatorial optimization problem, and (iii) it ca...

Phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of Dictyostelium myosin II increases V(max) of its actin-dependent MgATPase activity about 5-fold under normal assay conditions. Under these assay conditions, unphosphorylated chimeric myosins in which the tail domain of the Dictyostelium myosin II heavy chain is replaced by either the tail domain of chicken gizzard smooth muscle or Acanthamoeba myo...

2 Characteristic functions 2 2.1 Beta distribution: cfbeta(t, shape1, shape2, ncp = 0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2 Binomial distribution: cfbinom(t, size, prob) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.3 Cauchy Distribution: cfcauchy(t, location = 0, scale = 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.4 Chi-square Distribution: cfchisq(t, df, ncp = 0) . . . . . . . . . ....

BACKGROUND Dyspnea and fatigue are the main causes of exercise limitation in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients, whose peak inspiratory (Pi(max)) and expiratory pressures (Pe(max)) are often reduced. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between respiratory muscle performance and oxygen kinetics. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 55 patients (NYHA class I to III) and 11 healthy...

Micro-fluxgate sensor with symmetrical core on both sides of the planar rectangular excitation and pick-up coils has substantially improved parameters compared to its single-core predecessor. Almost closed magnetic path for the excitation field allows much deeper saturation of the sensor core, which reduces the perming effect, hysteresis and noise. Perming of max. 5 μT for 6 mT field shock, 28 ...

Recent wireless communication standards such as 3GPP-LTE, WiMax, DVB-SH, HSPA and LTE / LTE advanced incorporate turbo code for their excellent performance. In this paper, we present a new 3 dimensional turbo decoder including bit error rate (BER) is much better than the 2 dimensional turbo decoder used by LTE / LTE advanced, as is illustrated by simulation. We also address the issue of the imp...