Comparative animal studies showed the wide variation of whole blood and plasma viscosity, and erythrocyte aggregation among mammalian species. Whole blood viscosity and red blood cell aggregation is influenced by red cell fluidity. To evaluate differences in erythrocyte deformability in mammals, three species were investigated, whose erythrocytes have a different aggregation property: horse, as...

Wireless sensor networks are energy constrained networks. Energy consumption in these networks can be reduced by processing the raw data at individual nodes through the application of suitable aggregation technique so that there is minimum amount of data that need to be transmitted towards the sink. The data aggregation functions that are applied should adhere to correctness, and should be comp...

RELATIONSHIPS Relationships are critical to object modelling. It is generally agreed that associations (of several °avours), generalizations and aggregations are useful, although the exact semantics di®er between authors. It is important that we, the object-oriented community, gain a common understanding and, in that context, recent formalisms have helped to clarify the situation: the OMG-inspi...

A formal theory of multilevel systems is needed for modelling the outcomes of policy. The dynamics of social systems are coupled between levels and models that do not reflect this are incomplete and a poor basis for policymaking. The structures developed here are necessary for the new kinds of models and computer simulations needed to support policy makers as they tackle the problems of an incr...

A formal theory of multilevel systems is needed for modelling the outcomes of policy. The dynamics of social systems are coupled between levels and models that do not reflect this are incomplete and a poor basis for policymaking. The structures developed here are necessary for the new kinds of models and computer simulations needed to support policy makers as they tackle the problems of an incr...

We introduce a new way to visualize the behavior of aggregation operators based on the analogy with a balance. The use of an analogy permits an intuitive representation of the operator. This metaphor is enough general to include operators of the most common aggregation families. So we obtain a general framework, that allows us to compare the different existing operators. In this paper we will s...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become increasingly popular in people’s daily lives. The pervasive IoT devices are encouraged to share data with each other in order to better serve the users. However, users are reluctant to share sensitive data due to privacy concerns. In this paper, we study the anonymous data aggregation for the IoT system, in which the IoT company servers, though not fully ...

protein aggregation is a serious problem for both biotechnology and cell biology. diseases such as prion misfolding, alzheimer’s, and other amyloidosis are phenomena for which protein aggregation in our living cells is of considerable relevance. human lysozyme has been shown to form amyloid fibrils in individuals suffering from nonneuropathic systemic amyloidosis, all of which have point mutati...