A fundamental challenge in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to maximize their lifetimes especially when they have a limited and nonreplenishable energy supply. To extend the network lifetime, power management and energy-efficient communication techniques at all layers become necessary. In this paper, we present solutions for the data gathering and routing problem with in-network...

Abstract Introduction Platelet aggregation plays a significant role in the etiology of cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, treatments to inhibit platelet aggregation can reduce the risk of coronary thrombosis. Several studies indicated that garlic can inhibit platelet aggregation. This study aimed to determine the effect of garlic in comparison with Plavix on platelet aggregation. Materials ...

protein aggregation and precipitation is associated with many debilitating diseases including alzheimer's, parkinson's, and light-chain amyloidosis. β-casein, a member of the casein family, has been demonstrated to exhibit chaperone-like activity to protect protein form aggregation. hofmeister salts (lyotropice series) are a class of ions which have an effect on the solubility and also the stab...

Recently, deep neural networks are widely applied in recommender systems for their effectiveness capturing/modeling users' preferences. Especially, the attention mechanism learning enables to incorporate various features an adaptive way. Specifically, as next item recommendation task, we have following three observations: 1) sequential behavior records aggregate at time positions ("time-aggrega...

Visual information received from the three types of photoreceptor neurons (R1-R6, R7 and R8) in the fly compound eyes converges to the external part of the medulla neuropil (M1-M6 layers) in a layer-specific fashion: R7 and R8 axons terminate at the M6 and M3 layers, respectively, whereas lamina neurons (L1-L5) relay R1-R6 to multiple medulla layers (M1-M5). Here, we show that during developmen...

This seminar report focuses on using convolutional neural networks for image retrieval. Firstly, we give a thorough discussion of several state-of-the-art techniques in image retrieval by considering the associated subproblems: image description, descriptor compression, nearest-neighbor search and query expansion. We discuss both the aggregation of local descriptors using clustering and metric ...

A chiral bispyrene macrocycle designed for exclusive intermolecular excimer fluorescence upon aggregation was synthesized by a double hydrothiolation of bis-enol ether followed intramolecular oxidation free thiols. Unusually high stereoselectivity achieved the thiol-ene additions under templated conditions and Et3B/O2 radical initiation. After enantiomer separation (chiral stationary phase HPLC...

The peptide Boc-Val-Phe-OMe 1 bearing sequence similarity with the central hydrophobic cluster (CHC) of Alzheimer's Aβ(18-19) peptide self-assembles to produce amyloid-like straight unbranched fibrils as examined by atomic force microscopy and Congo red assay. Single crystal X-ray diffraction offers the atomic level structure of the supramolecular parallel β-sheet aggregation and antiparallel s...

In Federated Learning (FL), a common approach for aggregating local solutions across clients is periodic full model averaging. It is, however, known that different layers of neural networks can have degree discrepancy the clients. The conventional aggregation scheme does not consider such difference and synchronizes whole parameters at once, resulting in inefficient network bandwidth consumptio...