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Genetic interactions confer robustness on cells in response to genetic perturbations. This often occurs through molecular buffering mechanisms that can be predicted using, among other features, the degree of coexpression between genes, commonly estimated through marginal measures of association such as Pearson or Spearman correlation coefficients. However, marginal correlations are sensitive to...

Occlusion-compatible traversals and z-buffering are often regarded as the only choices for resolving visibility in the imageand point-based rendering community. These algorithms do either per-frame or per-pixel computations. This paper first discusses visibility orderings for point samples in general and then discusses orderings that are valid for multiple views. Then we present a novel, highly...

In many situations we have to make repeated decisions in an uncertain environment. Those decisions include to choose a route to drive to work, when to refuel a car or when to purchase and sell shares in the stock market. In each of those settings we decide which actions we take, although we do not possess complete information about the situation. Since part of the missing information might infl...

Baroreflex buffering plays an important role in arterial blood pressure control. Previous reports suggest that baroreflex sensitivity may be altered in endurance exercise-trained compared with untrained subjects. It is unknown, however, if in vivo baroreflex buffering is altered in the endurance exercise-trained state in humans. Baroreflex buffering was determined in 36 healthy normotensive men...

It is well–known that TCP often experiences severe performance degradation in mobile networks since due to host mobility, packet losses not related to network congestion occur frequently. In this paper, we propose a buffering of packets at a base station to resolve such a problem. Our method can be used without sacrificing the scalability in Mobile IP based networks. For this purpose, we first ...

Some humans thrive whereas others resign when exposed to threatening situations throughout life. Social support has been identified as an important modulator of these discrepancies in human behaviour, and other social animals also exhibit phenomena in which individuals recover better from aversive events when conspecifics are present - aka social buffering. Here we studied social buffering in z...

Modeling arbitrary real objects is difficult and rendering textured models typically does not result in realistic images. We describe a new method for displaying scanned real objects, called view-based rendering. The method takes as input a collection of colored range images covering the object and creates a collection of partial object models. These partial models are rendered separately using...

A way to create effective stylized line drawings is to draw strokes that start and stop at visible portions along the silhouette of an object to be portrayed. In computer graphics to date, algorithms to extract silhouette edges are many, although putting these edges into a form such that stylized strokes may be applied to them has not been greatly covered, so that existing methods are either ti...