Neutrophil mobilization following administration of Pseudomonas polysaccharide was significantly reduced in malnutrition, especially during infection. The random mobility of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) was slightly decreased in undernutrition. Chemotactic migration of PMNs was depressed and correlated more with the presence of infection than with nutritional deficiency. It is possible t...

Ubiquitous location-aware sensing devices have facilitated collection of large volumes of mobility data streams from moving entities such as people and animals, among others. Extraction of various types of periodic behavioral patterns hidden in such large volume of mobility data helps in understanding the dynamics of activities, interactions, and life style of these moving entities. The ever-in...

Application protocols employing the publish-subscribe messaging pattern provide many advantages for IoT scenarios. For instance, the Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) tolerates long breaks in connectivity and provides low energy consumption. However, there is lack of research on the behavior of such protocols under challenging scenarios. Preliminary studies show that mobility affect the ...

Design and efficacy of a routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks strongly depends on the underlying mobility pattern of the mobile nodes. Counter to the perception of mobility being random in time and space, we show that spatial modality is a key trait of human mobility. Most of the mobility of an individual can be captured by a small fraction of all locations, called spatial modes, visited...