The complexity class PPAD (“Polynomial Parity Argument on Directed Graphs”) was proposed by Christos Papadimitriou in 1994 [6]. Its goal is to capture the complexity of searching for an object whose existence is guaranteed by the principle that, “A directed graph with an unbalanced node (indegree 6= outdegree) must have another unbalanced node.” Suppose that we describe an exponentially large g...

In mission-critical applications deployed in mobile ad hoc networks, very frequently a commander will need to assemble and dynamically manage Community of Interest (COI) mobile groups to achieve the mission assigned despite failure, disconnection or compromise of COI members. In this paper, we present a dynamic hierarchical trust management protocol that can learn from past experiences and adap...

We propose a security approach that uses secret key cryptography and key management along with re-keying support. A salient feature of our approach is that a secret key is embedded in the source code of every node to protect the other keys in its nonvolatile memory. Even the node is captured physically; the sensitive information cannot be retrieved. Our key selection protocol uses the node ID a...

Security is important for many sensor network applications. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are often deployed in hostile environments as static or mobile, where an adversary can physically capture some of the nodes. once a node is captured, adversary collects all the credentials like keys and identity etc. the attacker can reprogram it and replicate the node in order to eavesdrop the transmitte...

antibody detection is the most versatile and commonly used method for measles diagnosis. detection of specific igm antibodies in a single serum specimen collected within the appropriate time after rash onset can provide a good presumptive diagnosis of current or recent measles infection and is the test of choice for rapid diagnosis of measles cases. so, optimal timing for collection of a single...

background: in neutron interaction with matter and reduction of neutron energy due to multiple scatterings to the thermal energy range, increasing the probability of thermal neutron capture by neutron captures makes dose enhancement in the tumors loaded with these materials.   objective: the purpose of this study is to evaluate dose distribution in the presence of  10 b ,  157 gd  and  33 s  ne...

nineteen lymph node biopsies, 3 curetting, 15 blood samples obtained from patients with lymphadenitis and high titers of toxoplasma antibodies, and 27 tonsillar tissues removed from patients because of chronic tonsillitis were inoculated intraperitoneally into mice for isolation of toxoplasma gondii. toxoplasms were isolated from 5 lymph node biopsies, one curettage material, 2 tonsillar tissue...

Node representation learning for directed graphs is critically important to facilitate many graph mining tasks. To capture the edges between nodes, existing methods mostly learn two embedding vectors each node, source vector and target vector. However, these separately. For node with very low indegree or outdegree, corresponding cannot be effectively learned. In this paper, we propose a novel D...

schwannomas are benign nerve sheath tumors that originate from any anatomical site. most of the schwannomas are found in the head, neck or limbs. schwannoma arising in a lymph node is extremely rare. we have found only four cases in the review of the literature. we experienced a case of intranodal schwannoma in a perigastric lymph node. a 72 year-old female underwent cholecystectomy due to clin...