Motivation: A core computation of many popular quantitative trait locus, QTL, mapping methods is determining the residual sum of squares, RSS, for a regression of trait values on (pseudo-)marker genotypes. A single evaluation is easily performed using the standard method QR factorization, but together the RSS computations take considerable time and often constitute the major part of the computa...

Malleable signature schemes (MSS) enable a third party to alter signed data in a controlled way, maintaining a valid signature after an authorized change. Most well studied cryptographic constructions are (1) redactable signatures (RSS), and (2) sanitizable signatures (SSS). RSSs allow the removal of blocks from a signed document, while SSSs allow changing blocks to arbitrary strings. We rigoro...

In this paper we give an overview of the Foafing the Music system. The system uses the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and Rich Site Summary (RSS) vocabularies for recommending music to a user, depending on her musical tastes. Music information (new album releases, related artists’ news and available audio) is gathered from thousands of RSS feeds —an XML format for syndicating Web content. On the oth...

This work presents an alternative approach (Evolutionary Algorithms approach) to traditional treatment of Recommender Systems (RSs). The work examines genetic algorithms possibilities to offer adaptive characteristics to this systems trough learning. The main goal, in addition to give a general view about RSs capabilities and possibilities, it is to provide an example mechanism for to extend RS...

We present an Android smartphone platform for the evaluation of RSS fingerprint-based algorithms. Our system follows a mobile-based network-assisted architecture to eliminate the communication overhead and respect user privacy. When a user enters our university campus a smartphone client conducts a single communication with a dedicated server to receive the RSS radiomap and algorithm-specific p...

 Many Internet sites and media companies (Amazon.com, YouTube, Netflix, Yahoo, Tripadvisor, Last.fm, IMDb) are developing and deploying RSs as part of the services they provide to their subscribers;  At institutions of higher education around the world, undergraduate and graduate courses are dedicated entirely to RSs; tutorials on RSs are very popular at computer science conferences;  There ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dosimetric profiles and delivery accuracy of running-start-stop (RSS) delivery in tomotherapy and to present initial quality assurance (QA) results on the accuracy of the dynamic jaw motion, dosimetric penumbrae of the RSS dynamic jaw and the static jaw were measured by radiographic films. Delivery accuracy of the RSS was evaluated by gamma analysis...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Sedative and analgesic treatment administered to critically ill patients need to be regularly assessed to ensure that previously stated goals are well achieved as the risk of complications of oversedation is minimized. We revised and prospectively tested the Ramsay Sedation Scale (RSS) for interrater reliability and compared it with the Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale (...

The intravenous glucose tolerance test (IVGTT) interpreted with the minimal model provides individual indexes of insulin sensitivity (S(I)) and glucose effectiveness (S(G)). In population studies, the traditional approach, the standard two-stage (STS) method, fails to account for uncertainty in individual estimates, resulting in an overestimation of between-subject variability. Furthermore, in ...

Data communication over cellular networks is expensive for the mobile device in terms of energy, especially when the received signal strength (RSS) is low. The mobile device needs to amplify its transmission power to compensate for noise leading to an increased energy consumption. This thesis focuses on developing a RSS map for the third generation cellular technology (3G) which can be stored l...