Due to use of explosive devices and heavy weapons systems in modern conflicts, the effect BW on brain body is increasing concern. These exposures have been commonly linked with neurodegenerative diseases psychiatric disorders veteran populations. A likely neurobiological link between exposure blasts development neurobehavioral disorders, such as depression PTSD, could be neuroinflammation trigg...

BACKGROUND The term "exposome" was originally coined in 2005 and defined as the totality of exposures throughout the lifetime. The exposome provides an excellent scientific framework for studying human health and disease. Recently, it has been suggested that how exposures affect our biology and how our bodies respond to such exposures should be part of the exposome. OBJECTIVES The authors des...

System vulnerability is the common weak point for attacker to break into the system. Patching or reconfiguration is usually slow, and difficult or risky to system stability. Our research defines a framework for vulnerability prioritization based on relevancy calculated from online information. In this paper, the idea of subcontext and the Ontology-based Document Profile (ODP) are introduced. OD...

This paper reports from an experimental study of cooperative work in a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) with sixty test subjects. A method from social psychology, interaction process analysis (IPA), was used for analyzing group dynamics within the CVE in relation to three communicative modes: text-chat, voice, and video conferencing. The study investigated how the communicative mode infl...

We show using diagramtic arguments that in some (but not all) cases, the temperature dependent part of the chiral vortical effect coefficient is independent of the coupling constant. An interpretation of this result in terms of quantization in the effective 3 dimensional Chern-Simons theory is also given. In the language of 3D, dimensionally reduced theory, the value of the chiral vortical coef...

UNLABELLED This paper presents a cluster validation tool for gene expression data. Machaon CVE (Clustering and Validation Environment) system aims to partition samples or genes into groups characterized by similar expression patterns, and to evaluate the quality of the clusters obtained. AVAILABILITY The program is freely available for non-profit use on request at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Nadia.B...

As collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are becoming more popular for both entertainment and professional activities, it is important to know which factors influence the collaboration between participants. This paper investigates two aspects of interaction in the context of collaboration between two users. A puzzlesolving task in a basic interactive virtual environment was used as a case s...

The strategies used by a coastal diatom, Thalassiosira pseudonana, for potentially different iron (Fe) requirements under different temperatures and irradiances were examined on the basis of three parameters: Fe uptake rate, cellspecific growth rate, and Fe efflux rate constant. These three variables determined the cellular Fe concentration, and they were all quantified under different temperat...

Recommended methods for disposal of aluminium phosphide may involve burial. A range of aluminium phosphide preparations used for fumigation consisting of partially spent, and unspent commercial phosphine (PH3) generating aluminium phosphide formulations (blankets and sachets, pellets, and tablets), was buried for 19 months. Phosphine produced by the formulations during this period was monitored...

The collaboration project described in this paper involved students across three cooperating institutions, on three different continents in different time zones, building a virtual Tower of Babel in a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (3D CVE). Much Information and Communication Technology work today involves international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with one’s...