Data-centric design has been widely adopted in wireless sensor networks thanks to its efficiency, as PUSH and PULL are two common data dissemination algorithms for such networks. The two algorithms work well with only a few sources or a few sinks, respectively. However, when there are many sources and many sinks, both of them become inefficient. In this paper, we take advantage of these two alg...

[1] One difficulty for ocean modeling is the lack of velocity data for specifying the initial condition. Diagnostic initialization is widely used; it integrates the model from known temperature (Tc) and salinity (Sc) and zero velocity fields while holding (Tc, Sc) unchanged. After a period (around 30 days) of the diagnostic run, the velocity field (Vc) is established, and (Tc, Sc, Vc) fields ar...

Since our daily life is strongly oriented towards the use of computer systems, everyone is affected by security incidents. Consequently, securing computer systems is of everyone’s interest. Many vulnerabilities in source code can be put down to insufficient validation of input data. Not long ago, a method was introduced to support the auditor in finding and fixing such vulnerabilities. In this ...

Tropical forests play a major role in determining the current atmospheric concentration of CO2, as both sources of CO2 following deforestation and sinks of CO2 probably resulting from CO2 stimulation of forest photosynthesis. Recently, researchers have tried to quantify this role. The results suggest that both the carbon sources and sinks in tropical forests are significantly greater than previ...

Non-immersive perspectives in virtual environments enable flexible paradigms of perception, especially in the context of frames of reference for conferencing and musical audition. Traditional mixing idioms for enabling and disabling various audio sources employ mute and solo functions, that, along with cue, selectively disable or focus on respective channels. Exocentric interfaces which explici...

The complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with zero linear dispersion occurs in a wide variety of contexts as the modulation equation near the supercritical onset of a homogeneous oscillation. The analysis of its coherent structures is therefore of great interest. Its fundamental spatiotemporal pattern is wavetrains, which are spatially periodic solutions moving with constant speed (also known as pe...

In this paper, the cooling performance of water-cooled heat sinks for heat dissipation from electronic components is investigated numerically. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are carried out to study the rectangular and circular cross-sectional shaped heat sinks. The sectional geometry of channels affects the flow and heat transfer characteristics of minichannel heat sinks. T...