The unprecedented growth in smartphone usage has fueled a massive increase in cellular network traffic volumes. We investigate the feasibility of applying Redundancy Elimination (RE) for today’s smartphone traffic, using packet traces collected from 20 real mobile users for five months. For various RE techniques including caching, file compression, delta encoding, and packet stream compression,...

there has been an increasing concern about inactive drivers who would easily lead to road accidents and fatalities once return to driving. this study investigated the re-usability of traffic signs for inactive drivers with consideration of driver factors and cognitive sign features. fifty-seven hong kong chinese, who possessed a full driving license but had not driven for an extended period, co...

abstract background: the main goals in treating burns are to accelerate tissue renovation and prevent infection. topical antibiotics are used in the treatment of burns, but they can cause side effects. recently, a traditional ointment (olea) has been used in iran in the treatment of burns. this study examines the effect of topical honey ointment in healing of burn patients. materials and method...

A well-established theory exists for testing finite-state machines, in particular Moore and Mealy machines. A fundamental class of problems handled by this theory is state identification: we are given a machine with known state space and transition relation but unknown initial state, and we are asked to find experiments which permit to identify the initial or final state of the machine, called ...

Optimum multiuser detection for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems requires the solution of an NPhard combinatorial optimization problem. It is well known that the computational complexity of the optimum multiuser detector is exponential with the number of active users in the system. In order to reduce the complexity of the optimum multiuser detection, we propose a Reduced Complexity ...

In this paper, we investigate how location access patterns influence the re-identification of seemingly anonymous data. In the real world, individuals visit different locations that gather similar information. For instance, multiple hospitals collect health information on the same patient. To protect anonymity for research purposes, hospitals share sensitive data, such as DNA sequences, strippe...

PURPOSE The outcome of recurrent ependymoma in children is dismal. Reirradiation has been proposed as an effective modality for ependymoma at relapse. However, the toxicity and outcome benefits of this approach have not been well established. METHODS AND MATERIALS We conducted a retrospective population-based study of all patients with recurrent ependymoma treated between 1986 and 2010 in our...