YASAMIN MOSTOFI Q. Why are cooperative sensor networks interesting as a research topic? What are some of the benefits and challenges of this technology? Yasamin: The unprecedented growth of sensing, communication, and computation in the past few years has the potential for fundamentally changing the way we interact with our environment. The vision of a multi-agent robotic network cooperatively ...

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We derive a simple accuracy matching strategy for inexact Gauss Newton methods and apply it to the numerical solution of boundary value problems of ordinary differential equations by collocation. The matching strategy is based on an affine contravariant convergence theorem, i.e., the characteristic constants are invariant under affine transformations of the domain. The inexact Gauss Newton meth...

We survey the consecutive-ones property of binary matrices. Herein, a binary matrix has the consecutive-ones property (C1P) if there is a permutation of its columns that places the 1s consecutively in every row. We provide an overview over connections to graph theory, characterizations, recognition algorithms, and applications such as integer linear programming and solving S C.

A new one-pot preparative route was developed to synthesize novel organophosphorus-sulfur heterocycles via the reaction of the four-membered ring thionation reagent [2,4-diferrocenyl-1,3,2,4-diathiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide (FcLR, a ferrocene analogue of Lawesson's reagent)] and alkenyl/aryl-diols and I₂ (or SOCl₂) in the presence of triethylamine. Therefore, a series of five- to ten-membered...

the oxidation of low-density lipoproteins and cell membrane lipids is believed to play an integral role in the development of fatty streak lesions, an initial step in coronary artery disease (cad). paraoxonase-1 (pon1) is an enzyme associated with the high-density lipoprotein (hdl) particle. pon1 protects ldl from oxidative modification by hydrolyzing lipid peroxides, suggestive of a role for p...