A recent meeting jointly sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) brought together researchers active in nanotechnology and cancer molecular biology to discuss and evaluate the interface between disciplines. Emerging areas where nanotechnologies may impact cancer prevention and early cancer detection were elaborated by key resear...

A revised and refined version of the O’Carroll et al. (1996) nomenclature for suicidology is presented, with a focus on suicide-related ideations, communications, and behaviors. The hope is that this refinement will result in the development of operational definitions and field testing of this nomenclature in clinical and research settings. This revision would not have been possible without the...

Service advertisement and discovery is an important component for mobile ad hoc communications and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments. The ability to discover services offered in a mobile ad hoc network is the major prerequisite for effective usability of these networks. This paper aims to classify and compare existing Service Discovery (SD) protocols for MANETs by grouping them...

Kei Kikuiri, Nobuhiko Naka and Shinya Abe The high-quality speech coding is a super-wideband speech coding technique for providing high-quality VoIP services in a high-speed wireless communication environment, and was developed in collaboration with DoCoMo Communications Laboratories USA, Inc. This technology encodes and transmits nearly all of the frequency components of the human voice to all...

in this paper, we consider a cooperative cognitive radio network in which there is an ofdm primary link and multiple single carrier secondary links.the primary link is required to maintain its secrecy rate above a predefined threshold. if the secrecy rate requirement is not satisfied, the secondary system help primary link to maintain its secrecy rate requirement. in doing so, the secondary trans...

Building design and planning is a typical instance of coordination and collaboration processes where experts work together in fulfilling their own distinct planning tasks that build the basis for the realization of the joint building project. Increasing requirements on building performance, like sustainability and energy efficiency, and project complexity call for a holistic view of the project...