The main goal is to illustrate that the so-called indirect function of a cooperative game in characteristic function form is applicable to determine the nucleolus for a subclass of coalitional games called compromise stable TU games. In accordance with the Fenchel-Moreau theory on conjugate functions, the indirect function is known as the dual representation of the characteristic function of th...

Khon Konchog Gyalpo, the main disciple of Drogmi, founded a monastery at Sakya. It was this that gave its name to whole monastic order Drogmi. member clan, family went on produce successive abbots or chief lamas Sakya who have continued as heads ever since. The succession within established father-to-son uncle-to-nephew pattern. In instance an abbot remaining celibate, it his brother close rela...

Virtual Interface Architecture(VIA) is a light-weight protocol for protected user-level zero-copy communication. In spite of high performance of VIA, the previous MPI implementation for GigaNet’s cLAN revealed low communication performance. The main sources of the low performance are the discrepancy of communication model between MPI and VIA and multi-threading overhead. In this paper, we propo...

The exopeptidases of family S46 are exceptional, as the closest homologs of these enzymes are the endopeptidases of clan PA. The three-dimensional structure of S46 enzymes is unknown and only one of the catalytic residues, the serine, has been identified. The catalytic histidine and aspartate residues are not experimentally identified. Here we present phylogenetic and experimental data that ide...

Introduction When studying the function of the human foot, foot pressure measurements offer some insight into the biomechanics of the growing foot [1] and models have been proposed to measure the foot kinematics especially of children [2]. Aside from ankle kinematics however [3], little is known about differences in foot motion between children and adults. This ongoing study therefore examines ...

Foot ulcers are a common complication of diabetes and are the consequence of trauma to the feet and a reduced ability to perceive pain in persons with diabetes. Ulcers appear internally when pressures applied on the foot create high internal strains below bony structures. It is therefore important to monitor tissue strains in persons with diabetes. We propose to use a biomechanical model of the...