In this paper we address the reliability problem in storage-centric sensor networks deployed in hazardous environments. We use the nodes’ extra flash memory to save distributed encoded blocks of data. We employ erasure coding to substantially improve the trade-off between storage reliability and required disk capacity. Moreover, efficient mechanisms are designed for spreading the encoded pieces...

Memory bandwidth issue becomes more and more critical in designing video coding system especially in scalable video coding due to its extra inter-layer prediction. This paper proposes a low memory bandwidth prediction method for inter and inter-layer residual prediction. The proposed method combines two predictions into one prediction process and reuses its data for lowering memory bandwidth re...

background: targeting of cd20 antigen with monoclonal antibodies has become the mainstay in the treatment of non-hodgkin's lymphomas and immunotherapeutic depletion of malignant b cells. accessibility of antigen is one of the crucial factors in development of monoclonal antibodies against this antigen. one major problem in expression of full length cd20 is aggregation and misfolding. there...

Space-time block codes provide substantial diversity advantages for multiple transmit antenna systems at a low decoding complexity. In this contribution, we investigate the achievable diversity advantages in the context of adaptive modulation aided turbo coded OFDM. The two-transmitter, one-receiver G2 block space-time coded scheme using no channel coding or gradually increasing rate turbo codi...

Many state-of-the-art wavelet image coders use nonorthog-onal transforms for both lossy and lossless wavelet image coding 1, 2, 3, 4]. In this paper, a projection prediction is described that capitalizes on the non-orthogonality of wavelet transform basis vectors to improve the prediction of high-frequency coeecients. For lossy wavelet coders, the prediction yields improved context modeling and...

Low power VLSI circuit design is a must for present and future technologies. One of the ways of reducing power in a CMOS circuit is to reduce the number of transitions on the bus and Bus Invert Coding is a widely popular technique for that. In this paper we introduce a new way of coding called the ShiftInv Coding that is superior to the bus invert coding technique. Our simulation results show a...

Different forms of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) have been described in different tissues. Moreover, the directly determined amino acid sequence amino end of the red cell enzyme does not exactly match the sequence deduced from cDNA isolated from HeLa cells or lymphoblasts. We have therefore investigated the sequence of cDNA from sperm, granulocytes, reticulocytes, brain, placenta, ...

The 5' non-coding region of the genomes of 11 isolates of Murray Valley encephalitis virus from Australia and Papua New Guinea were examined by primer extension sequencing. Although the 5' non-coding region of all isolates was found to be highly conserved, three isolates were significantly different in that they contained extra uridine residues. Two of these isolates from Papua New Guinea conta...

familiarity with the normal and abnormal anatomy of the root canal system is essential for successful root canal treatment. the possibility of concomitant three-rooted and three- canalled maxillary and mandibular premolars are extremely rare. the purpose of this paper was to report a case with a three-rooted maxillary first premolar and two three-rooted mandibular premolars.