SUMMARY sORF finder is a program package for identifying small open reading frames (sORFs) with high-coding potential. This application allows the identification of coding sORFs according to the nucleotide composition bias among coding sequences and the potential functional constraint at the amino acid level through evaluation of synonymous and non-synonymous substitution rates. AVAILABILITY ...

A nonlinear optimization algorithm for linear predictive speech coding was developed early that not only optimizes the linear model coefficients for the open loop predictor, but does the optimization including the effects of quantization of the transmitted residual. It also simultaneously optimizes the quantization levels used for each speech segment. In this paper, we present an improved metho...

Abstract— We propose a dynamic routing-scheduling-coding strategy for serving multiple unicast sessions when linear network coding is allowed across sessions. Noting that the set of stabilizable throughput levels in this context is an open problem, we prove that our strategy supports any point in the non-trivial region of achievable rates recently characterized by Traskov et al. [1]. This work ...

This study aims to examine the impacts of organization’s cybersecurity training program on employees with qualitative data, collected from 33 college students who were attending Norfolk State University while also working either a part-time or full-time basis participated. Open-ended questions asked elicit participants’ perspectives and protocols in organizations. Using data...

The social venture ecosystem is important for the growth and sustainability of ventures. This study aims to expand our understanding sustainable success ventures by analyzing both their internal external factors using interviews with entrepreneurs stakeholders in ecosystem. A qualitative research method employed examine interviewees’ perspectives, data were analyzed framework grounded theory. t...

This paper presents some technical and ethical issues arising from the use of automated methods to solve a typical social science problem: the coding of surveys including answers to open-ended questions. Coding an open-ended survey, which may include thousands of interviews, means to assign symbolic predefined labels to its answers according to their meaning. The increasing amount of informatio...

Privacy threat is a very serious issue in multi-hop wireless networks (MWNs) since open wireless channels are vulnerable to malicious attacks. A distributed random linear network coding approach for transmission and compression of information in general multisource multicast networks. Network nodes independently and randomly select linear mappings from inputs onto output links over some field. ...

We review the basic works in the area of network coding and present a detailed survey of applications of network coding in network problems. It is shown that both in wired and wireless networks, multicast and broadcast protocols perform better with network coding. Even in unicast applications, network coding based protocols perform as well as the protocols without network coding. We also survey...

This qualitative exploratory study, based on the theoretical principles of Grounded Theory, aims to explore students’ perceptions of the utilization of learning resources in computer programming courses. The study employed an open class discussion, a survey, and semi-structured interviews for data collection. Data analysis was performed in an iterative and deductive manner, using open, selectiv...