Allocation and reservation of resources, such as CPU cycles and I/O bandwidth of multimedia servers and link bandwidth in the network, is essential to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia services delivered over the Internet. In this paper, we have proposed a new semidistributed architecture for admission control and QoS adaptation of multimedia sessions to maximize revenue from multi...

This paper presents a new heuristic algorithm for the MultipleChoice Multi-Dimension Knapsack Problem (MMKP) in PRAM model. MMKP is a variant of the classical 0-1 knapsack problem, has a knapsack with multidimensional capacity constraints, groups of items, each item having a utility value and multidimensional resource constraints. The problem is to maximize the total value of the items in the k...

The field of nuclear archaeology aims to develop the methods and tools to verify past production of fissile materials for military purposes, which may become necessary to support the verification of future arms control agreements that envision deeper cuts in the nuclear arsenals. Techniques have been successfully demonstrated for reconstructing historic plutonium production, especially in graph...

A novel algorithm, named SeqMapII, of technology mapping with retiming for optimal clock period for K-LUT based FPGAs was recently proposed by Pan and Liu 13]. The time complexity of their algorithm, however , is O(K 3 n 4 log(Kn 2) logn) for sequential circuits with n gates, which is too high for medium and large size designs in practice. In this paper, we present three strategies to improve t...

Tumor cells evade adaptive immunity by a variety of mechanisms, including selection of variants that are resistant to specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) pressure. Recently, we have reported that the reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton can be used by tumor cells as a strategy to promote their resistance to CTL-mediated lysis. In this study, we further examined the functional features of ...

The spin polarization of electrons photoemitted from (110) GaAs by irradiating with circularly polarized light of energy 1.5 & heu & 3.6 eU was measured by Mott scattering. The GaAs surface was treated with cesium and oxygen to obtain a negative electron af6nity (NEA), The spectrum of spin polarization P(hem) exhibits a peak (P = 40%) at threshold arising from transitions at I, and positive (P ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) was among the most common AIDS-defining illnesses prior to the advent of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART). In the ART era, CMV disease remains a significant public health threat among HIV-infected adults and children with delayed HIV diagnosis. CMV co-infection may additionally contribute to accelerated HIV progression, development of inflammation-related comorbidi...

The present paper examines the prosodic constituent Foot as the domain of phonological phenomena in German. Several processes take place in this constituent, such as Glottal Stop Insertion and Final Devoicing, as well as the phenomena that are described below: productive umlaut and infinitive inflection. The status of the trochaic Foot as the unmarked constituent in German is also discussed. Th...

The Nigeria Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1) is the nation’s first nuclear reactor and it is sited at the Centre for Energy Research and Training, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. It is a Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) that attained criticality on February 03, 2004 and was licensed to operate at a maximum power of 31 kW three days a week in June 01, 2004. This presentation enumerate...

A roadmap for developing accelerator driven systems (ADS) in India was prepared in 2001. The first phase of the activities under the program began with the commencement of the tenth plan in 2002. This involves the development of a 10 MeV (upgradeable to 20 MeV), 30 mA proton linear accelerator, the setting up of a lead bismuth eutectic (LBE) loop for target and coolant studies and a reactor phy...