We consider the situation in which a group of agents are trying to find an agreeable time for a meeting. Each agent’s availability is governed by a known prior probability distribution, but the realization of it is private information. The goal (of the convener) is to find an agreeable time slot while optimizing in two dimensions: Expected time to reach agreement and expected inconvenience caus...

In an age when we can sequence an entire genome within a day, we expect to be able to gather and access accurate information at a pace. After all, you didn't wait for this issue of PLoS Medicine to arrive in the post or trudge down to the library to read it; you accessed it instantly via the internet. Patients and clinicians also expect technology to provide similar speed when it comes to diagn...

Mycoplasma bovine mastitis is a highly contagious disease, usually associated with clinical cases refractory to antibiotic treatment. The aim of this study was the isolation species in cattle milk samples from dairy herds Chile. Bulk tank selected by convenience 91 Holstein Friesian located Los Rios (66) and Lagos (25), two most important Regions country, were collected. Additionally, 100 indiv...

ABSTRACT: Bovine paratuberculosis causes chronic, incurable diarrhea and weight loss, resulting in decreased cattle production. The disease is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. (MAP), an obligate intracellular mycobactin-dependent mycobacterium that replicates slowly the host has heightened environmental resistance. In countries where found damage been quantified, direct indirect economic lo...

The Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) option to the 802.11 standard is the first step in addressing security concerns; it is an encryption provision. WEP is a security protocol designed to provide a wireless local area network with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is usually expected of a wired network. However since physical security mechanisms no longer apply, the goal of the a...

Forms of convenience voting, including voting-by-mail (VBM), provide citizens the opportunity to cast ballots without being exposed to the information revealed in the final weeks leading up to Election Day. This creates the possibility that informational differences will cause VBM and polling place voters to vote differently. We test this hypothesis by looking at whether the increased use of VB...

Biological interactions such as those between genes and proteins are complex and require intricate OWL models. However, direct links between biological entities can support search and data integration. In this paper we introduce linksets of convenience that capture these direct links. We show the provenance statements required to track the derivation of such linksets; linking them back to the f...