Agilla is a mobile agent middleware for sensor networks. Mobile agents are special processes that can migrate across sensors. They increase network flexibility by enabling active in-network reprogramming. Neighbor lists and tuple spaces are used for agent coordination. Agilla was originally implemented on Mica2 motes, but has been ported to other platforms. Its Mica2 implementation consumes 41....

To function effectively, every organization requires a dictionary or directory as an informant of the metadata on databases, users, applications, and systems within the organization. To date, the current use of data dictionaries within the organizations is limited owing to the failure of bringing about their full capital capacity. Two important factors are responsible for this deficiency of cur...

Xiaohui Liang, Xu Li, Qinghua Shen, Rongxing Lu, Xiaodong Lin, Xuemin Shen, and Weihua Zhuang, “Prediction to Enable Secure and Reliable Routing in Wireless Body Area Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM’12, pp. 388-396, 2012. In this paper, we propose a distributed Prediction-based Secure and Reliable routing framework (PSR) for emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). It can be integra...

OH-PBDEs have been reported to be more potent than the postulated precursor PBDEs or corresponding MeO-PBDEs. However, there are contradictory reports for transformation of these compounds in organisms, particularly, for biotransformation of OH-PBDEs and MeO-PBDEs, only one study reported transformation of 6-OH-BDE-47 and 6-MeO-BDE-47 in Japanese medaka. In present study zebrafish (Danio rerio)...

The use of polymers as supports for enzyme immobilization is a strategy that enables to remove the enzymes from a chemical reaction and improve their efficiency in catalytic processes. In this work, cellulose triacetate (CTA) was used for physical adsorption of phospholipase Lecitase ultra (LU). CTA is more hydrophobic than cellulose, shows good performance in the lipases immobilization being a...

In the article by Lu Y et al “Visualization and quantitation of fetal movements by real-time three-dimensional ultrasound with live xplane imaging in the first trimester of pregnancy”, published in the Croatian Medical Journal (1), the name of the first author was incorrectly written as Ye Lu instead of Lu Ye, which causes problems with retrieval of articles co-authored by Lu Ye from bibliograp...

BACKGROUND Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) has been shown to reduce the incidence of local recurrence of colorectal cancer in an experimental model. The aim of the present study was to investigate the survival benefit of RIT compared with chemotherapy. METHODS An anastomosis was constructed in male Wag/Rij rats after intraluminal injection of CC531 tumour cells. The therapeutic efficacy of (177) Lu-...

In our original published manuscript entitled “Type 2 immunity-dependent reduction of segmented filamentous bacteria in mice infected with the helminthic parasite Nippostrongylus brasiliensis” [1], a co-author was incorrectly omitted. The correct author list should include Emmanuel Mongodin from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland...

Nicholas J. Timpson, Klaudia Walter, Josine L. Min, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Giovanni Malerba, So-Youn Shin, Lu Chen, Marta Futema, Lorraine Southam, Valentina Iotchkova, Massimiliano Cocca, Jie Huang, Yasin Memari, Shane McCarthy, Petr Danecek, Dawn Muddyman, Massimo Mangino, Cristina Menni, John R.B. Perry, Susan M. Ring, Amadou Gaye, George Dedoussis, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Paul Burton, Philippa J....