While the dynamic linking mechanism of modern programming languages, such as Java, allows loading of classes dynamically, it does not allow class reloading. Hence, dynamic linking facilitates development of component platforms, such as eclipse RCP, which supports dynamic loading but not dynamic updates of components, since this requires reloading. This paper presents an approach that enhances e...

In the current Internet, network overload is prevented by the congestion control of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The traditional TCP congestion control is an endto-end mechanism that suffers from some inherent shortcomings. A design alternative for the Future Internet is to use more feedback from the routers. Such router-assisted congestion control schemes can achieve a more efficie...

Aggressive forms of cancer are often defined by recurrent chromosomal alterations, yet in most cases, the causal or contributing genetic components remain poorly understood. Here, we utilized microarray informatics to identify candidate oncogenes potentially contributing to aggressive breast cancer behavior. We identified the Rab-coupling protein RCP (also known as RAB11FIP1), which is located ...

A number of distributed corporate intranets can be connected together using the ABR service of an ATM network to form a virtual private network. However, because the available bandwidth of the ABR connection may be occasionally reduced by the ATM network, severe congestion may occur at the gateway connecting an intranet to the ATM network. Such congestion is likely to cause packet loss at the g...

A rhamnose-containing polysaccharide (RCP) was extracted and purified from cell walls of Streptococcus mutans B13 (serotype d) and was chemically and immunologically characterized. Walls were initially extracted with 5% trichloroacetic acid at 4 degrees C to remove the serotype antigen and were then sequentially extracted with increasing concentrations of hot acid. Extracts lacking galactose we...

An infinite product IIT= lMi of matrices converges (on the right) if limi __ M, . . . Mi exists. A set Z = (Ai: i > l} of n X n matrices is called an RCP set (rightconvergent product set) if all infinite products with each element drawn from Z converge. Such sets of matrices arise in constructing self-similar objects like von Koch’s snowflake curve, in various interpolation schemes, in construc...

This paper studies the Robust Coloring Problem (RCP), a variant of the Minimal Coloring Problem which maintains the number of colors fixed. In this problem, two non-adjacent vertex that have the same color are penalized. The sum of penalties of a coloring is called rigidity level. To solve the RCP, an Iterated Local Search (ILS) algorithm using the Random Variable Neighborhood Descent (RVND) lo...

Acquisition of functional receptivity by the endometrium is assumed to be effected by progesterone-dependent expression and repression of several genes during the implantation window in a menstrual cycle. In the present study, we employed differential display (DD) reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to identify progesterone-dependent gene/gene fragments that are differentia...

This paper proposes a real-time concurrency control protocol called Reduced Ceiling Protocol (RCP) for real-time database systems (RTDBS) consisting of hard and soft real-time transactions. The schedulability of hard real-time transactions can be improved by bounding the blocking time from soft real-time transactions. Different concurrency control strategies are proposed to resolve data conflic...

Horticultural crop production and changes in physiological aspects during the growing season may be affected by climate change factors (CC), which include increased temperature and the associated doubling or tripling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, the potential effects are complex and many parameters might impact on the observed effects. To evaluate the effects of CC, the growth, y...