We consider applying the preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) method to solve linear systems Ax = b where the matrix A comes from the discretization of second-order elliptic operators. Let (L +)) ?1 (L t +) denote the block Cholesky factorization of A with lower block triangular matrix L and diagonal block matrix. We propose a preconditioner M = (^ L +)) ?1 (^ L t +) with block diagonal matr...

The shape of enveloped viruses depends critically on an internal protein matrix, yet it remains unclear how the matrix proteins control the geometry of the envelope membrane. We found that matrix proteins purified from Newcastle disease virus adsorb on a phospholipid bilayer and condense into fluidlike domains that cause membrane deformation and budding of spherical vesicles, as seen by fluores...

Monoclonal antibodies are now established as key therapeutics for a range of diseases including cancer and auto-immunity. However, despite important improvements, these molecules still face several serious limitations including production costs and tumor penetration. A new class of antibody fragments, made of a single immunoglobulin domain, is emerging as an exciting alternative. This review de...

background: protein-protein interactions do not provide any direct information re­garding the domains within the proteins that mediate the interactions. the majority of proteins are multi domain proteins and the interaction between them is often defined by the pairs of their domains. most of the former studies focus only on interacting do­main pairs. however they do not consider the interaction...

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can improve the spectral efficiency by exploiting the power domain and successive interference cancellation (SIC), and it can be applied to various transmission schemes including random access that plays a crucial role in the Internet of Things (IoT) to support connectivity for a number of devices with sparse activity. In this paper, we formulate a game whe...

Cross-domain collaborative filtering (CDCF) solves the sparsity problem by transferring rating knowledge from auxiliary domains. Obviously, different auxiliary domains have different importance to the target domain. However, previous works cannot evaluate effectively the significance of different auxiliary domains. To overcome this drawback, we propose a cross-domain collaborative filtering alg...

Background: Protein-protein interactions do not provide any direct information re‌garding the domains within the proteins that mediate the interactions. The majority of proteins are multi domain proteins and the interaction between them is often defined by the pairs of their domains. Most of the former studies focus only on interacting do‌main pairs. However they do not consider the in...

Update propagation is a technique for the weakly consistent replication of a database. Operations are performed at the local copy of the database, then are asynchronously propagated to the replicas. In large scale applications where the weak consistency can be tolerated (e.g., network routing tables, bulletin boards etc.), update propagation can give much better performance than conventional da...