Peer-to-peer (P2P) Data-sharing systems now generate a significant portion of internet traffic. P2P systems have emerged as a popular way to share huge volumes of data. Requirements for widely distributed information systems supporting virtual organizations have given rise to a new category of P2P systems called schemabased. In such systems each peer is a database management system in itself, e...

Operant testing is a widely used and highly effective method of studying cognition in rodents. Performance on such tasks is sensitive to reinforcer strength. It is therefore advantageous to select effective reinforcers to minimize training times and maximize experimental throughput. To quantitatively investigate the control of behavior by different reinforcers, performance of mice was tested wi...

We propose a novel approach for deening and querying a super-peer within a schema-based super-peer network organized into a two-level architecture: the low level, called the peer level (which contains a mediator node), the second one, called super-peer level (which integrates mediators peers with similar content). We focus on a single super-peer and propose a method to deene and solve a query, ...

Enhancers are critical genomic elements that define cellular and functional identity through the spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression. Recent studies suggest that key genes regulating cell type-specific functions reside in enhancer-dense genomic regions (i.e., super enhancers, stretch enhancers). Here we report that enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) identified by global nuclear run-on sequenc...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of a microprocessed phototherapy (PT) system with five high intensity light emitting diodes (Super LED) for the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia of premature infants. METHODS Randomized clinical trial using Super LED phototherapy in the study group and twin halogen spotlight phototherapy in the control group. A stratified blocked randomization, base...

We construct a one-parameter family of N=3 supersymmetric extensions of the KdV equation as a Hamiltonian flow on N=3 superconformal algebra and argue that it is non-integrable for any choice of the parameter. Then we propose a modified N=3 super KdV equation which possesses the higher order conserved quantities and so is a candidate for an integrable system. Upon reduction to N=2, it yields th...

Finger-vein is a promising biometric technique for the identity authentication. However, the finger displacement or the illumination variation in image capturing may cause bad recognition performance. To overcome these limitations, multi-biometric system, an effective method to improve the performance, is proposed. In this paper, a new multimodal biometric system based on pixel level feature an...

Maintenance is an important activity in software engineering with studies attributing it more than 75% of the total cost of a system. More than half the time dedicated to maintenance is spent on reverse engineering the code which often is the only accurate source of information. In this context, among the many approaches, software visualization tools have long been seen as an important asset to...

We initiate a study of super-perfect zero-knowledge proof systems. Loosely speaking, these are proof systems for which the interaction can be perfectly simulated in strict probabilistic polynomial-time. In contrast, the standard definition of perfect zero-knowledge only requires that the interaction can be perfectly simulated by a strict probabilistic polynomial-time that is allowed to fail wit...

Grid systems integrate distributed resources to form self-organization and self-management autonomies. Recently, for large-scale computation requirement, the collaboration of different grid systems is one of the hot research topics. In this paper, we propose a meta-grid framework, called G2G framework, to harmonize autonomic grids for realizing the federation of different grids. The G2G framewo...