The most important physico-chemical characteristics describing detergent micelles are the CMC value and the aggregation number. These parameters depend critically on external conditions such as pH, ionic strength, buffer composition or temperature. However, the influence of these conditions on CMC or aggregation number is a priori not to predict, but the most important parameter. This holds esp...

This paper develops a framework to analyze the latency and delay composition of workflows in a realtime networked aggregation system. These workflows are characterized by different inputs that are processed along parallel branches that eventually merge or fuse to compute the aggregation result. The results for each flow must be produced within certain end-to-end deadlines or else the informatio...

The phenomenon of Inverse Linking has proven challenging for theories of the syntax-semantics interface; a noun phrase within another behaves with respect to binding as though it were structurally independent. In this paper I show that, using an LF-movement style approach to the syntax-semantics interface, we can derive all and only the appropriate meanings for such constructions using no seman...

The recent evolution of ubiquitous computing has brought with it a dramatic increase of event monitoring capabilities by wireless devices and sensors. Such systems require new, more sophisticated, event correlation over time and space. This new paradigm implies composition of events in heterogeneous network environments, where network and resource conditions vary. Event Correlation will be a mu...

“The process of combining several numerical values into a single representative one is called aggregation, and the numerical function performing this process is called aggregation function. This simple definition demonstrates the size of the field of application of aggregation: applied mathematics (e.g. probability, statistics, decision theory), computer science (e.g. artificial intelligence, o...

rDNA structure. The nucleus is a highly organized structure. However, unlike cytoplasmic organelles, nuclear substructures are not bounded by membranes, but rather are held together by interactions between their component proteins and nucleic acids, and are thus probably best regarded as giant, extended multi-molecular complexes. The nucleolus is the most prominent of these structures. It is th...

Protein aggregation is being found to be associated with an increasing number of human diseases. Aggregation can lead to a loss of function (lack of active protein) or to a toxic gain of function (cytotoxicity associated with protein aggregates). Although potentially harmful, protein sequences predisposed to aggregation seem to be ubiquitous in all kingdoms of life, which suggests an evolutiona...

Diet compositions expressed in weight are essential to determine the trophic relationships in energetic terms between the compartments within a system. Data from stomachs were compiled from a number of sources (62102 stomachs), covering four broad areas such as the Northwest Atlantic, South Africa, Senegal and the Azores Islands in order to explore the empirical relationships between the freque...

Model-driven Engineering requires efficient powerful methods for verifying model correctness and quality. Class Diagram is the central language within UML. Its main problems involve correctness problems, which include the consistency and the finite satisfiability problems, and quality problems, which include the redundancy and incomplete design problems. Two central constraints in class diagram...

Many scientific problems can be modeled as computational workflows that integrate data from heterogeneous sources and process such data to derive new results. These data analysis problems are pervasive in the physical and social sciences, as well as in government practice. In this paper, we present an approach to automatically create computational workflows in response to user data requests. We...