Relationships are keys to the semantics and hence the Semantic Web. One interesting way to exploit relationships is to link documents such that terms in the documents are semantically related through well defined relationships. In his 1945 article, Dr. Vannevar Bush posited the idea of creating a device capable of recording all of human knowledge. Dr. Bush suggested that such a device would all...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been proposed for multimedia services and wide-area connectivity in smart home environments (SHEs). An important issue for SIP deployment in SHEs is network address translator (NAT) traversing. SIP and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets are delivered between an SHE (i.e., private IP network) and Internet (i.e., a public IP network) through an NAT fu...

How do the lines on a map come into being? What stories do they tell? These questions are examined in the context of cave exploration and mapping in Venezuela. Ethnographic analysis focuses on mapping in the field, the translation of notes into final maps, and discourses surrounding these practices. The lines that cave surveyors sketch in field books while traversing underground passages reveal...

A case of a transcranial stab wound is presented in which the patient was stabbed in the left temporal bone with a knife which, after traversing the tentorium, passed through the occipital squama and its tip reached the upper cervical area. The subject underwent surgery and was discharged without neurological sequelae. The fundamental principles of management in this specific type of head ...

The mobile Wv6 protocol allows a mobile node to move from one link to another without changing the mobile node’s home address by using a care-of address. When a mobile node moves to a foreign link bebind a NAT, it uses a local-scope care-of address, which bas been allocated by a foreign router dominating the visited nehvork, as identification of itself. On the other hand, other nodes outside th...

We present an overview of the use of power calculations in experimental economics as well as other disciplines. We review the methodology proposed by the field of economics as well the pitfalls in failing to incorporate power calculations in lab and field experiments. We write this note to further draw attention to the issue, and to make a case that details of power calculations should be repor...

The notion of graph traversal is of fundamental importance to solving many computational problems. In many modern applications involving graph traversal such as those arising in the domain of social networks, Internet based services, fraud detection in telephone calls etc., the underlying graph is very large and dynamically evolving. This thesis deals with the design and engineering of traversa...

Cilia are antenna-like extensions of the plasma membrane found in nearly all cell types. In the retina of the eye, photoreceptors develop unique sensory cilia. Not much was known about the mechanisms underlying the formation and function of photoreceptor cilia, largely because of technical limitations and the specific structural and functional modifications that cannot be modeled in vitro. With...

A superconducting (SC) mixed state occurs in type-II superconductors where the upper critical field ${H}_{c2}$ is higher than thermodynamic ${H}_{c}$. When an applied between these fields, free energy depends weakly on order parameter which therefore can be small (SC state) or zero (normal at different parts of sample. In this paper we demonstrate how a normal along line traversing superconduct...

The paper constructs a generalized version of universal traversing sequences. The generalization preserves the features of the universal traversing sequences that make them attractive for applications to derandomizations and space-bounded computation. For every n, a sequence is constructed that is used by a finite-automaton with 0(1) states in order to traverse all the n-vertex labeled undirect...