This article describes a scalable, self-configuring architecture for campus networks, the ABridges architecture. It is a two-tiered hierarchy of layer two switches in which network islands running independent rapid spanning tree protocols communicate through a core formed by island root bridges (ABridges). ABridges use AMSTP, a simplified and self configuring version of MSTP protocol, to establ...

The Angular Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem (\(\alpha \)-MSTP) is defined in terms of a complete undirected graph \(G=(V,E)\) and an angle \(\alpha \in (0,2\pi ]\). Vertices G define points the Euclidean plane while edges, line segments connecting them, are weighted by distance between their endpoints. A spanning tree \)-spanning \)-ST) if, for any \(i V\), smallest that encloses all ...

Syntactic analysis, i.e., parsing of text is used during various tasks, e.g., machine translation, question answering, etc. The structure of a sentence is represented with a tree. Parsing long sentences is a difficult task. The motivation was to analyze sub-units of the sentence independently, which could improve the overall parsing accuracy. We developed a new parsing algorithm that includes i...

With a view to reducing pollution in the aquatic environment, estrone (E1) and 17beta-estradiol (E2) were tested for their absorbability in water onto activated carbons (ACs) with various pore-size distributions. In batch-type adsorption measurements, all adsorption isotherms obtained were found to fit a Freundlich equation. In case of eight different kinds of commercial AC in pure water, the a...

The following information is missing from the Funding section: This work was funded by NIH grant TW009237 as part of the joint NIH-NSF Ecology of Infectious Diseases program and the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and by the Wisconsin Partnership Program through the Wisconsin Center for Infectious Diseases, and the NIH (R01 AI077376-01). This publication was made possible in part by a ...

Abstract Introduction: When T cells are activated, they upregulate glycolysis and take on a requisite Warburg phenotype. In this study, we evaluated the effect of inhibiting two distinct glycolytic enzymes, GAPDH PGAM, CD4 cell differentiation. Methods/Results: Using inhibitor heptelidic acid, found that inhibition produces potent anti-inflammatory phenotype in Th1 cells, significantly reducing...

Conventional Compressive Sampling (CS)-based data aggregation methods require a large number of sensor nodes for each CS measurement leading to an inefficient energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). To solve this problem, we propose a new scheme in the network layer, called “Weighted Compressive Data Aggregation (WCDA)”, which benefits from the advantage of the sparse randommeasu...

Archaeology has been profoundly transformed by the advent of airborne laser scanning (ALS) technology (a.k.a LiDAR). High-resolution and high-precision synoptic views earth’s topography are now available, even in densely forested environments, to identify characterize landform patterns resulting from past human occupation. ALS-based archaeological prospection relies on digital terrain model (DT...

Abstract T cell activation in the lymph node (LN) is critical to initiating adaptive immune responses vaccination, tumors, and infection. We previously demonstrated that cells from human tissue sites (blood, LNs, bone marrow, lung) undergo conserved state transitions during activation. However, these studies were performed suspension culture dissociated tissue, depleting spatial signaling contr...

We improve and generalize in several accounts the recent rigorous proof of convergence of delta expansion order dependent mappings (variational perturbation expansion) for the energy eigenvalues of anharmonic oscillator. For the single-well anharmonic oscillator the uniformity of convergence in g ∈ [0,∞] is proven. The convergence proof is extended also to complex values of g lying on a wide do...