Reliable communication is the backbone of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Within the AMI, the neighbourhood area network (NAN) transports a multitude of traffic, each with unique requirements. In order to deliver an acceptable level of reliability and latency, the underlying network, such as the wireless mesh network (WMN), must provide or guarantee the quality-of-service (QoS) level re...

Neural circuits are especially vulnerable to metabolic stress. The locust (Locusta migratoria) responds to anoxia by entering a coma during which neural and muscular systems shut down. During anoxic coma, arrest of the ventilatory central pattern generator is tightly correlated with an abrupt spreading depression (SD)-like increase in extracellular potassium concentration within the metathoraci...

—————————————————————————————————————— macro "Reporter Regions" { /* Instructions * Draw ROI's and save as .zip file * set thresholds for each channel in the variables at the top of the macro * open the .tif image to be analyzed * follow on screen instructions to select the folders to pull the ROI.zip files and where to save the files Macro functions-Changes the background pixels in RFP and GFP...

In this paper, using an existing pitch-contour model of a Chinese dialect (Mandarin here) to generate pitch-contour parameters for another dialect’s sentences (Hakka here) is studied. This can be generally viewed as a pitch-contour model adaptation problem. We study this problem in hope to save tedious labors and research time needed to build a pitchcontour model for a specific Chinese dialect....

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To accommodate the rapidly increasing demand for wireless broadband communications in Smart Grid (SG) networks, research efforts are currently ongoing to enable the SG networks to utilize the TV spectrum according to the Cognitive Radio paradigm. To this aim, in this letter, we develop an analytical framework for the optimal deployment of multiple closely-located SG Neighborhood Area Networks (...