Introduction The complex system of the cell is a network of interconnections proteins interact with other proteins or with DNA, and genes can interact functionally with one another. Cellular networks can be broken down into simpler components to facilitate their study. Three different types of analysis – modules, motifs, and network themes – that can be utilized to simplify the intricate web of...

In his classic book The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard claimed that large corporations manipulated consumers, using advertising techniques. John Kenneth Galbraith and others have repeated a similar view. Against this, Gary Becker and George Stigler have claimed that advertising is essentially informative rather than manipulative. In contrast, it is argued here that both of these opposed accou...

This paper proposes a blind reversible watermarking approach for medical images based on histogram shifting in wavelet domain. An integer wavelet transform is applied to map the integer host image components to integer wavelet coefficients. The watermark information is inserted into the high frequency subband regions of the transformed image. According to the capacity required for the watermark...

Introduction. Total hip arthroplasty (THA) infections with severe bone loss pose significant reconstructive challenges. We present our experience with two-stage hip reimplantation using an intramedullary, antibiotic-impregnated nail. Methods. Three patients with infected THA with severe proximal femoral bone loss (Mallory type IIIB or greater) were treated using a custom antibiotic spacer. Clin...

Many models to estimate the cost of software projects were devised during the last three decades [1], [3]. Although until now there is no perfect model that can estimate the cost precisely, the estimations varies to be over-estimated that may lead to using the resources inefficiently and losing a lot of business opportunities or under-estimated that may lead to delaying the final software produ...

In this miniproject, you are to implement a Special Purpose Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (SPART). The SPART can be integrated into the processor of your final project to serve as the serial I/O interface between the processor and a serial I/O port on NT workstation. Use the Hyperterminal Accessory, this will permit you to input characters from the keyboard and to output characters to the s...

1 This paper describes a two-stage equilibrium travel demand model. The unique feature of this model is 2 that it takes time-of-day traffic counts instead of land use and demographic data as inputs to derive spatial 3 and temporal travel demand patterns. The first stage of the model is a traffic count-based trip matrix 4 estimator; the second stage is an elastic-demand network flow estimator, w...