To improve the human arm function of disable patients after stroke, we propose in this paper a new design of a robot-assisted therapy. The robotic device must be attached to a human arm and mimics the motion of the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints. The functional training of the stroked upper limb is covered in motion and force via a safe compliant motion. The controller parameters are optimize...

A key gene involved in plant senescence, mutations of which partially disable chlorophyll catabolism and confer stay-green leaf and cotyledon phenotypes, has been identified in Pisum sativum, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Festuca pratensis by using classical and molecular genetics and comparative genomics. A stay-green locus in F. pratensis is syntenically equivalent to a similar stay-green locus o...

Notions of weak and strong fairness are studied in the setting of the I/O automaton model of Lynch & Tuttle. The concept of a fair I/O automaton is introduced and it is shown that a fair I/O automaton paired with the set of its fair executions is a live I/O automaton provided that (1) in each reachable state at most countably many fairness sets are enabled, and (2) input actions cannot disable ...

In mission critical cyber-physical systems, dependability is an important requirement at all layers of the system architecture. In this paper, we propose protocols that increase the dependability of wireless sensor networks, which are potentially useful building blocks in cyberphysical systems. More specifically, we propose two private aggregator node election protocols, a private data aggregat...

The hair bundle--the sensory organelle of inner-ear hair cells of vertebrates--exemplifies the ability of a cell to assemble complex, elegant structures. Proper construction of the bundle is required for proper mechanotransduction in response to external forces and to transmit information about sound and movement. Bundles contain tightly controlled numbers of actin-filled stereocilia, which are...

A MahomEDan, male, aged 40 years, was admitted to the Hospital from a neighbouring village on 13th March, 1919. He complained of swelling and pain in the left side of the abdomen and also on the left flank. He also gave a history of passing liquid stools with mucus. These troubles were said to have existed during the last three months; but the patient also gave a history of having suffered from...

While reviewing the Path MTU Discovery Protocol for Draft Standard [RFC1191], the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) became aware from the reports of various implementors that some vendors have added to their routers the ability to disable ICMP messages generated by the router. This is to protect older BSD hosts, which would drop all connections to a host it found an ICMP message on any...

The problem of providing effective and appropriate healthcare to elderly and disable people home has been increasingly talked around. Information and communication technology (ICT) is believed to enable home healthcare management to mitigate some problems. This paper is to contribute IoT (Internet of things) architecture to achieve connectivity with the patient, sensors and everything around it...

Animal SGT1 is a component of Skp1-Cullin-F-box protein (SCF) ubiquitin ligases that target regulatory proteins for degradation. Mutations in one (SGT1b) of two highly homologous Arabidopsis SGT1 genes disable early plant defenses conferred by multiple resistance (R) genes. Loss of SGT1b function in resistance is not compensated for by SGT1a. R genes differ in their requirements for SGT1b and a...

The iSCSI protocol plays a major role in facilitating the deployment of flexible data storage networks. Designed to run over TCP and, to a lesser extent, over Ethernet, iSCSI introduces another protocol layer to the data transfer process. Part of the iSCSI specification provides for a digest to detect errors that occur at this iSCSI layer. Processing the iSCSI digest is believed by many to so a...