Building very large computing systems is extremely challenging, given the lack of scalable communication technologies. This threatens a new generation of mission-critical but very large computing systems. Fortunately, a new generation of “gossip-based” or epidemic protocols can overcome scalability problems, offering security and reliability even in the most demanding settings. Epidemic protoco...

Abstract One way to silence the powerless, Langton has taught us, is pre-emptively disable their ability do things with words. In this paper I argue that speakers can be silenced in a different way. You let them speak, and obscure meaning of words afterwards. My aim investigate form silencing, call retroactive distortion . distortion, speaker distorted by effect subsequent speech act speaker. A...

In this paper, we consider the pest management model with spraying microbial pesticide and releasing the infected pests, and the infected pests have the function similar to the microbial pesticide and can infect the healthy pests, further weaken or disable their prey function till death. By using the Floquet theory for impulsive differential equations, we show that there exists a globally asymp...

In order to prevent attacks against smartphones and tablets, dedicated security applications are deployed on the mobile devices themselves. However, these applications may have a significant impact on the device resources. Users may be tempted to uninstall or disable them with the objective of increasing battery lifetime and avoiding configuration operations and updates. In this paper, we propo...

Adaptation capabilities are becoming more and more popular in applications due to several facts, including heterogeneity of users, devices and physical contexts of use where applications are currently used. Adaptation is not per se good, and poor adaptations usually lead to disappointed users that reject or disable adaptation mechanisms. Therefore, in order for adaptation to reach the mainstrea...

Telomeres shortening, which leads to apoptosis, is prevented by telomerase adding small repeated segments of DNA to the telomeres. The telomerase level has been correlated with progression of several cancer types, including acute leukemia, breast, prostate, lung cancer and melanoma. Suppression of telomerase activity was found to reduce metastatic potential but could have serious side effects i...

With the increasing popularity of MBone conferences, the need arose to archive the multimedia streams of these conferences. Like all network applications, a conference recorder is subject to packet loss, which introduces gaps into recorded media streams. Such gaps degrade the playback quality of an archived media stream or even disable the correct playback. In this paper, we present a novel sch...

PatchMaker is a network management tool that tracks and stores descriptions of physical network patches in a database. Physical patches are cables that connect switches, patch panels, and room ports. PatchMaker allows administrators to manage switch ports from multiple vendors giving them the ability to enable/disable ports, make VLAN changes, and perform other switch port functions through a c...

The Fbw7 tumor suppressor targets a broad network of proteins for ubiquitylation. Here we show critical functions for Fbw7 dimerization in regulating the specificity and robustness of degradation. Dimerization enables Fbw7 to target substrates through concerted binding to two suboptimal and independent recognition sites. Accordingly, an endogenous dimerization-deficient Fbw7 mutation stabilizes...

We describe a new, practical, constructive method for solving the well-known conflict-free scheduling problem for the locally sequential, globally parallel (LSGP) case of systolic array synthesis. Previous solutions have an important practical disadvantage. Here we provide a closed form solution that enables the enumeration of all conflict-free schedules. The second part of the paper discusses ...