Cellular networks are now nearly universally deployed and are under ever-growing pressure to increase the volume of data deliverable to consumers. Understanding how base stations (BSs) are spatially deployed could prominently facilitate the performance analyses of cellular networks, as well as the design of efficient networking protocols. In this letter, inspired by the clustering reality of BS...

Aims. This paper presents a new homogeneous catalogue of blue straggler stars (BSS) in Galactic open clusters. Methods. Photometric data for 216 clusters were collected from the literature and 2782 BSS candidates were extracted from 76 of them. Results. We found that the anticorrelation of BSS frequency vs. total magnitude identified in similar studies conducted on Galactic globular clusters ex...

The economic operation of battery swapping stations (BSSs) is significant for the promotion of large-scale electric vehicles. This paper develops a linear programming model to maximize the daily operation profits of a BSS by considering constraints of the battery swapping demand of users and the charging/discharging balance of batteries in the BSS. Based on the BSS configuration and data from e...

A δ-uniform BSS machine is a standard BSS machine which does not rely on exact equality tests. We prove that, for any real closed archimedean field R, a set is δ-uniformly semi-decidable iff it is open and semi-decidable by a BSS machine which is locally time bounded; we also prove that the local time bound condition is nontrivial. This entails a number of results about BSS machines, in particu...

The use of short-range wireless for object positioning has seen a growing interest in recent years. This interest is compounded by the inherent GPS limitations especially in indoor situations and in urban canyons. In order to achieve the highest performance of short-range positioning systems it is important to optimize the placement of Base-Stations (BSs) in a given area. The problems of BSs pl...

Feed-Forward (FF-) and Feed-Back (FB-) structures have been proposed for Blind Source Separation (BSS). The FF-BSS systems have some degrees of freedom in the solution space, and signal distortion is likely to occur in convolutive mixtures. On the other hand, the FBBSS structure does not cause signal distortion. However, it requires a condition on the propagation delays in the mixing process. I...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the clinical and histopathological effects of intravitreal injection of pentoxifylline (PTX) the management of an experimental model of uveitis. Fifty-two rabbits were divided randomly into six intravitreal treated groups as below: 1) Balanced salt solution (BSS), 2) Salmonella typhimurium lipopolysaccharide endotoxin (LPS) + BSS, 3...

Background: Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS) is a rare, autosomal recessive platelet function disorder which is commonly mistaken for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).The report includes seven cases of BSS that have been diagnosed and treated as ITP for a long time. Methods: Between 2006 and 2016, data of seven BSS patients who have long been diagnosed and treated as ITP were collected ...

agronomic and physiological traits and protein expression were compared between non-bt glandless upland cotton variety-zhong5629 and its bt-transgenic near-isogenic lines differing in cryiac gene. results showed that the bt isogenic line had higher plant height and rate of effective bolls, more internal bolls but lower yield, than the non-bt line. the bt isogenic line had lower chlorophyll cont...

We investigate the impact of 20/40 MHz coexistence on the performance of wireless local area networks (WLANs). To that end, we present simulation results of overlapping basic service sets (BSSs), a 802.11n BSS operating in 20/40 MHz mode and a legacy BSS operating in 20 MHz mode, where the overlapping channel is the extension channel of the 20/40 MHz BSS. Our results show that if clear channel ...