Wireless Multi-hop Networks (WMhNs) are supposed to be the forerunner among the currently existing communication technologies. They provide users with flexible structures, feasible cost, convenience, ever growing bandwidths and innovative solutions. The increasing demands of the users provide a challenge to improve the quality of WMhNs. The performance of WMhNs depends upon the efficiency of th...

Many software metrics, particularly dependability metrics, are usually presented in a value-neutral framework. For example, the primary metric for Reliability, Mean Time Between Failures, is referenced to a one-size-fits-all (and often not explicitly defined) definition of “failure.” This can lead to serious problems, as when operators’ optimization on liveness produces user response times to q...

objective: in this study, two conserved genes (m1 and np) of influenza virus were expressed in a bicistronic vector in order to develop a universal gene based vaccine. materials and methods: plasmids m1-pires2-egfp, pires2-np were constructed by cloning the pcr products of m1 and np genes which were amplified from the a/peurto rico/8/34 (h1n1) influenza virus strain into the plasmid expression...

The majority of NLG evaluation relies on automatic metrics, such as BLEU. In this paper, we motivate the need for novel, systemand data-independent automatic evaluation methods: We investigate a wide range of metrics, including state-of-the-art word-based and novel grammar-based ones, and demonstrate that they only weakly reflect human judgements of system outputs as generated by data-driven, e...

The paper is devoted to the security assessment problem. Authors suggest an approach to the security assessment based on the attack graphs that can be implemented in contemporary Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems. Key feature of the approach consists in the application of the developed security metrics system based on the differentiation of the input data for the metrics ...

Over the last decade, extensive research has been conducted on coverage metrics for model checking. The most common coverage metrics are based on mutations, where one examines the effect of small modifications of the system on the satisfaction of the specification. While it is commonly accepted that mutation-based coverage provides adequate means for assessing the exhaustiveness of the model-ch...

background and aims: the novel approaches in influenza vaccination have targeted more conserved viral proteins such as nucleoprotein (np) to provide cross protection against all serotypes of influenza a viruses. influenza specific cytotoxic t lymphocytes (ctl) are able to lyse influenza-infected cells by recognition of np, the major target molecule in virus for ctl responses. on the other hand,...