Improving a decision maker’s1 situational awareness of the cyber domain isn’t greatly different than enabling situation awareness in more traditional domains2. Situation awareness necessitates working with processes capable of identifying domain specific activities as well as processes capable of identifying activities that cross domains. These processes depend on the context of the environment...

This paper introduces a preallocation-based multiple access protocol for wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optically interconnected passive star-coupled networks. The objective is to combine the strengths of two other preallocation-based strategies, interleaved slotted ALOHA (I-SA) and interleaved time division multiple access with multiple buffers (I-TDMA*), while minimizing their inherent...

In this work we apply the simulated annealing (SA) and genetic algorithms (GA) inversion methods to the reconstruction of permittivity images from electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) measurements. The forward problem (i.e., to find the mutual capacitance data for a given permittivity distribution in the sensor) is calculated by using a finite-volume space discretization method in order to a...

In many applications, the detection of a visually obscured magnetic target is followed by the characterization of the target, i.e. localization and magnetic moment estimation. Effective target characterization may reduce the detection false alarm rate as well as direct the searcher toward the target. We address the characterization of a static magnetic target by a three-axis fluxgate magnetomet...

In Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments, extracting accurate structural information about macromolecules depends on knowing the positions and orientations of donor and acceptor fluorophores. Several approaches have been employed to reduce uncertainties in quantitative FRET distance measurements. Fluorophore-position distributions can be estimated by surface accessibility (SA) ca...

MOTIVATION Modeling transcriptional regulation using thermo-dynamic modeling approaches has become increasingly relevant as a way to gain a detailed understanding of transcriptional regulation. Thermodynamic models are able to model the interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and DNA that lead to a specific transcriptional output of the target gene. Such models can be 'trained' by fitt...

Although assault exposure is common in mental health and substance misusing populations, screening for assaults in treatment settings is frequently overlooked. This secondary analysis explored the effects of past sexual (SA) and physical (PA) assault on depression, alcohol misuse, global functioning and attrition in the Depression and Alcohol Integrated and Single focussed Intervention (DAISI) ...