The rapid proliferation of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems realizes integration of physical world with the cyber ones. One of the most promising is the Internet of Things (IoT), a vision in which the Internet extends into our daily activities through wireless networks of uniquely identifiable objects. Given that modern RFID systems are being deployed in large-scale for different a...

Binding of the anticancer drug cisplatin (cis-Pt) to nucleic acids is believed to favor DNA over RNA. Covalent modification of DNA produces intrastrand cross-links (at GpG, ApG, and GpNpG; N=A, C, G, or T), and interstrand cross-links (at GG). Cisplatin reacts with other cellular components including proteins, phospholipids, and small molecules. To enhance DNA targeting, numerous conjugates hav...

This paper studies the convergence of the estimation error process and the characterization of the corresponding invariant measure in distributed Kalman filtering for potentially unstable and large linear dynamic systems. A gossip based information exchanging scheme termed Modified Gossip Interactive Kalman Filtering (M-GIKF) is proposed, where sensors exchange their filtered states (estimates ...

1. It is widely accepted that density-dependent processes play an important role in most natural populations. However, persistent challenges in our understanding of density-dependent population dynamics include evaluating the shape of the relationship between density and demographic rates (linear, concave, convex), and identifying extrinsic factors that can mediate this relationship. 2. I studi...

The constitutive transport elements (CTEs) of type D retroviruses are cis-acting elements that promote nuclear export of incompletely spliced mRNAs. Unlike the Rev response element (RRE) of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), CTEs depend entirely on factors encoded by the host cell genome. We show that an RNA comprised almost entirely of the CTE of Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (CTE RNA) i...

Fulvestrant (ICI 182,780; ICI) is approved for the treatment of advanced metastatic breast cancer that is unresponsive to other endocrine therapies. Berries are frequently consumed for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer potential. In this study, we tested the efficacy of two berry extracts (Jamun-EJAE and red raspberry-RRE) and their bioactive compounds (Delphinidin-Del and El...

Trivalent aluminum (Al3+) has drastic effect on the rice production in acidic soils. Elite genes for aluminum (Al) tolerance might exist in rice landraces. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to mine the elite genes within rice landraces. Association mapping for Al tolerance traits [i.e., relative root elongation (RRE)] was performed by using a core collection of 150 accessions of rice l...

This chapter presents a strategy for collaborative knowledge modelling between Tele-universite, LICEF Research Center, [email protected]

Introduction 12 Geometric numerical integrators are numerical meth13 ods that preserve the geometric structure of a continu14 ous dynamical system (see, e.g., [8, 11], and references 15 therein), and variational integrators provide a system16 atic framework for constructing numerical integrators 17 that preserve the symplectic structure and momen18 tum, of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems, wh...