Resolution of long-standing debates about the role and impact of advance directives - living wills and powers of attorney for health care - has been hampered by a dearth of appropriate data, in particular data that compare the process and outcomes of end-of-life decision making on behalf of patients with and without advance directives. Drawing on a large ethnographic study of patients in two in...

Being a node of the energy-water consumer and carbon dioxide (CO2) emitter, household is one key sector to pilot integrated energy-carbon-water (ECW) management. This study developed an framework explore China’s provincial ECW nexus as well their drivers from years 2000 through 2016. The absolute amount growth rate energy use (HEU), CO2 emissions (HCE), water (HWU) were abstracted reveal dynami...

Nerve growth factor (NGF) promotes growth, differentiation, and survival of sensory neurons in the mammalian nervous system. Little is known about how NGF elicits faster axon outgrowth or how growth cones integrate and transform signal input to motor output. Using cultured mouse dorsal root ganglion neurons, we found that myosin II (MII) is required for NGF to stimulate faster axon outgrowth. F...

Advance the DNA Computing. (August 2003) Zhiquan Frank Qiu , B.S., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Mi Lu It has been previously shown that DNA computing can solve those problems currently intractable on even the fastest electronic computers. The algorithm design for DNA computing...

MISTY and the Design Intent Behind it MISTY is the family name for two 64-bit blockcipher algorithms, MISTY1 and MISTY2, that have 128-bit keys, designed by the corporation with detailed specifications announced in academic conferences in 1996 and 1997.[1] [2] In terms of security, MISTY has the major benefit of “provable security,” in which the security is proven mathematically against differe...

This position paper addresses the question whether existing frameworks for single user application development can generally be used on top of an OOGP as they are. The paper negates this question by using the example of synchronous document-based groupware (SDBG). Some SDBG-specific requirements for a groupware platform architecture are postulated and it is shown how these requirements conflict...

Advance image classification system focuses on synthetic (e.g non-photographic) & Natural (e.g photographic) images. The classification of images based on semantic description is a challenging and important problem in automatic image identification. An algorithm for natural and synthetic image classification has been developed. Some features are extracted from the raw images data in order to ex...

To control a production-inventory system, a manager has to consider the variability in demand as well as variability in her production process. Both types of variability corrupt system performance and by alleviating either of them, the manager can improve the performance of the system. There has been a recent trend towards investing in better information systems to provide better advance demand...