A large body of empirical research has demonstrated stress-buffering effects of social support. However, recent studies suggest that genetic variation of the oxytocin system (specifically, a common single nucleotide polymorphism, rs53576, of the oxytocin receptor gene) modulates the efficacy of social support. The timing and neurobiological basis of this genetic modulation were investigated usi...

A session type is an abstraction of a sequence of heterogeneous values sent over one communication channel. Session types can be used for specifying stream-based Internet protocols. We consider session types in a setting with asynchronous communication over buffered channels. Due to buffering, a process may write ahead before the reading process picks up the data. Thus the types of the two ends...

the large complex scenes is presented in this paper. The local Z-buffering originates from the depth complexity based scene decomposition and following multistage rendering. In a naïve local Z-buffering, a large complex scene is decomposed into a low depth complexity scene and high depth complexity scene by computing a partition plane in the view space; the low and high depth complexity scenes ...

In this thesis, the performance investigation of packet services in both a standalone UMTS network and a UMTS network coexisting with other networks is undertaken. The investigations are concerned with the performance of a single link. Apart from objective performance metrics such as goodput and delay, subjective measures of user perceived QoS are also used. A real time emulation platform that ...

(La,Sr)MnO3 (LSMO) nanolayers with various crystallographic textures were grown on the sapphire substrate with and without In2O3 epitaxial buffering. The LSMO nanolayer with In2O3 epitaxial buffering has a (110) preferred orientation. However, the nanolayer without buffering shows a highly (100)-oriented texture. Detailed microstructure analyses show that the LSMO nanolayer with In2O3 epitaxial...

Using the Visual DSD language and tool for describing DNA computational structures, we investigate a gate buffering technique that helps maintaining desired reaction kinetics for unbounded time. We test it by simulation on an oscillator and on an ultrasensitive system.