Multidimensional ion mobility spectrometry (IMS-IMS and IMS-IMS-IMS) techniques have been combined with mass spectrometry (MS) and investigated as a means of generating and separating peptide and protein fragment ions. When fragments are generated inside a drift tube and then dispersed by IMS prior to MS analysis, it is possible to observe many features that are not apparent from MS analysis al...

Next Generation Network (NGN) has drawn great attention by the researchers and telecommunication industries as the future generation in the communication technologies and services. The interest covers all aspects on NGN from the global standards, architecture and services. The management of services provided in the NGN environment has posed great challenges due to the heterogeneity of the servi...

This paper proposes an efficient end-to-end QoS supporting mechanism in Next Generation Network (NGN) with heterogeneous QoS capability to support ubiquitous and distributed applications. To address this, there should be proper admission control mechanism and adaptive provisioning to sustain end-to-end QoS and maximize network utilization. Resource and Admission Control Subsystem of NGN has uni...

Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) have a similar behavior under compression and tension loadings. Therefore, they can be applied as a favorable lateral load resisting system for structures. In the performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) framework, an intermediate variable called intensity measure (IM) links the seismic hazard analysis with the structural response analyses. An optimal IM...

The next generation network is an IP-based network aimed at supporting the still growing use of real-time multimedia applications on a wide variety of infrastructures, from mobile to fixed. Quality of Service is a major part of the NGN, allowing guaranteed bandwidth and assured arrival of packets. This paper looks at the Quality of Service solutions both in NGN and in development elsewhere to d...

Telecommunication networks and the Internet are growing together. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) services which are originally offered by network providers, like telephony and messaging, are provided through VoIP and Instant Messaging (IM) by Internet service providers, too. The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the answer of the telecommunication industry to this trend and aims at providing Internet P2P an...

NGN architecture reused several standards from the IP world, as exemplified by the Session Initiation Protocol SIP, which is ubiquitous in the majority of these network components. However, the NGN management architecture simply presented a very generic management model that follows TMN. Several management technologies are proposed, such as Web services, CORBA and SNMP, to implement management ...

How conserved pathways are differentially regulated to produce diverse outcomes is a fundamental question of developmental and evolutionary biology. The conserved process of neural precursor cell (NPC) selection by basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proneural transcription factors in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) by atonal related proteins (ARPs) presents an excellent model in which to address...

This study focuses on ad hoc conferencing in the IMS, and particularly on the security issues. As in the Internet, conference servers, which in IMS are the AS/MRFC, make it easy to set up and manage ad hoc conferences in IMS. The user data is sent to mixers, which convert the encoding as needed for each participant. As the IMS core network mostly is based on the IETF standards for Internet, par...