IEEE 802.11 MAC mainly relies on two techniques to combat interference: physical carrier sensing and RTS/CTS handshake (also known as “virtual carrier sensing”). Ideally, the RTS/CTS handshake can eliminate most interference. However, the effectiveness of RTS/CTS handshake is based on the assumption that hidden nodes are within transmission range of receivers. In this paper, we prove using anal...

In a visual search experiment, the subject must find a target item hidden in a display of other items, and their performance is measured by their reaction time (RT). Here I look at how visual search reaction times are correlated with past reaction times. Target-absent RTs (i.e. RTs to displays that have no target) are strongly correlated with past target-absent RTs and, treated as a time series...

The leading malaria vaccine in development is the circumsporozoite protein (CSP)-based particle vaccine, RTS,S, which targets the pre-erythrocytic stage of Plasmodium falciparum infection. It induces modest levels of protective efficacy, thought to be mediated primarily by CSP-specific antibodies. We aimed to enhance vaccine efficacy by generating a more immunogenic CSP-based particle vaccine a...

Let s be an integer, f = f(n) a function, and H a graph. Define the Ramsey-Turán number RTs(n,H, f) as the maximum number of edges in an H-free graph G of order n with αs(G) < f , where αs(G) is the maximum number of vertices in a Ks-free induced subgraph of G. The Ramsey-Turán number attracted a considerable amount of attention and has been mainly studied for f not too much smaller than n. In ...

We analytically study a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)-based network. In the network, the nodes have their own average throughput demands for transmission to a common base station. The CSMA is based on the request-to-send (RTS)/clear-to-send (CTS) handshake mechanism. Each node individually chooses its probability of transmitting an RTS packet, which specifies the length of its requested ...

Electronic health record-keeping systems in the Referent Tracking paradigm use globally unique identifiers to make explicit reference to all relevant particular entities, and structure data by referring to universals and relations defined in external, commonly-used ontologies. SNePS is a general-purpose Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Acting system with a logical language interface. We ...

Reverse transcriptases (RTs) are usually thought of as eukaryotic enzymes, but they are also present in bacteria and likely originated in bacteria and migrated to eukaryotes. Only three types of bacterial retroelements have been substantially characterized: group II introns, diversity-generating retroelements, and retrons. Recent work, however, has identified a myriad of uncharacterized RTs and...

In this paper we propose a new scheduling algorithm called Real Time Scheduling (RTS). This algorithm deals with all the contributing components of the end-to-end travelling delay of data packets in sensor network to achieve better power management and stable routes in case of failure. RTS delays packets at intermediate hops (not just prioritizes them) for a duration that is a function of their...

Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is a well delineated multiple congenital anomaly syndrome characterised by mental retardation, broad thumbs and toes, short stature, and specific facial features. The recent localisation of the disorder to 16p13.3 and subsequent identification of a submicroscopic deletion of this region in RTS patients led us to screen a large cohort of affected subjects using th...

This paper describes a parallel run-time system (RTS) that is used as part of the pC++ parallel programming language. The RTS has been implemented on a variety of scalable, MPP computers system diiers from other data-parallel RTS implementations; it is designed to support the operations from object-parallel programming that require remote member function execution and load and store operations ...