This paper reports the preparation of two modified Ocean-Server AUV systems and the construction of a new autonomous surface vessel (ASV) for cooperative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) research at the University of Michigan (UMich). The Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratories (MHL) has designed and fabricated the new ASV BathyBoat to serve as a targeted remote sensing platform and a mob...

Multi-robot systems control over many advantages over a single-robot managing system, including redundancy, coverage and flexibility. One of the important technical considerations in fielding multirobot systems for real-world applications is the coordinating the different units. The cluster based controlling technique using simplified specification and monitoring of the movement of mobile multi...

Integration of viral DNA into the host chromosome is an obligatory step in retroviral replication and is dependent on the activity of the viral enzyme integrase. To examine the influence of chromatin structure on retroviral DNA integration in vitro, we used a model target comprising a 13-nucleosome extended array that includes binding sites for specific transcription factors and can be compacte...

The cellular protein Daxx was identified as an interactor with avian sarcoma virus (ASV) integrase (IN) in a yeast two-hybrid screen. After infection, Daxx-IN interactions were detected by coimmunoprecipitation. An association between Daxx and viral DNA, likely mediated by IN, was also detected by chromatin immunoprecipitation. Daxx was not required for early events in ASV replication, includin...

Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) is a fully closed loop ventilation where the operator input desired PEEP, FiO2 and target minute (MV) expressed as percentage according to ideal body weight. The ventilator selects respiratory pattern (tidal volume, rate, inspiratory time) based on observed mechanics. However, there are no published guidelines settings adjusting MV in different disease states ...

Text-dependent automatic speaker verification naturally calls for the simultaneous verification of speaker identity and spoken content. These two tasks can be achieved with automatic speaker verification (ASV) and utterance verification (UV) technologies. While both have been addressed previously in the literature, a treatment of simultaneous speaker and utterance verification with a modern, st...

With the recent increase of toxic algal blooms in lakes, biologists are looking for new sampling methods to analyze their spatiotemporal dynamics. In this paper, we present an Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) capable of achieving longterm sampling missions covering up to now a transect plane (1.5 km wide and 20m deep). The ASV is equipped with a probe which can be lowered via a winch to measure ...

During an Internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, attackers pose as a superpower overloading bandwidth and services that otherwise would have been lightly used by genuine users. These legitimate users send few packets and occasionally back-off and fail while competing for resources. The Internet architecture provides only modest support for verifying the true origin of a packet or...