We report results of V RI photometric monitoring of the T Tauri star plus disk system HH30. We find that HH30 is highly variable over timescales of a few days with ∆V ∼ 1.5 mag, ∆I ∼ 1.1 mag. Furthermore we find hints of periodicity with periodograms indicating possible periods of 11.6 and 19.8 days. The V RI photometry is available through the anonymous ftp service. We model the variability wi...

Many emerging distributed applications require the processing of massive amounts of data in real-time. As a result, distributed stream processing systems have been introduced, offering a scalable and efficient means of in-network processing. Managing however the load among the nodes of such a large-scale, dynamic system in real-time is challenging. The peer-to-peer paradigm can help address the...

Mobility load balancing is widely used in LTE cellular systems to deal with the uneven load distribution. Its basic idea is to shift traffic from a hot-spot cell to less-loaded neighbouring cells, called partners. Conventional schemes focus on the hot-spot cell’s load reduction and pay less attention to the performance of partners. This paper proposes a self-optimised coordinated traffic shifti...

In a tree-structured ZigBee wireless sensor network, nodes close to the root of the tree (i.e., hot-spot nodes) may exhaust their power earlier than those distant from the root due to heavy loads on packet forwarding. This hot-spot problem is inherent in tree-structured networks and may demand extra energy to recover from failures of hot-spot nodes. In this paper, the backbone-aware topology fo...

The bacteriophage encoded hyaluronate lyases (HylP and HylP2) degrade hyaluronan and other glycosaminoglycans. HylP2 forms a functional fibril under acidic conditions in which its N-terminus is proposed to form the fibrillar core, leading to nucleation and acceleration of fibril formation. Here we report the presence of a hot spot region (A144GVVVY149) towards the carboxy terminus of HylP2, ess...

Filling defects are often observed on 99mTc sulfur colloid liver scans. Hot spots are much less frequently seen. Superior vena cava syndrome is the most frequent cause of this finding. In this report 3 patients with S.V.C and budd - Chiari syndrome with HOT SPOT on liver scan are presented. Mechanisms of scintigraphic patterns are reviewed.

MOTIVATION Worldwide and substantial mortality caused by the 2009 H1N1 influenza A has stimulated a new surge of research on H1N1 viruses. An epitope conservation has been learned in the HA1 protein that allows antibodies to cross-neutralize both 1918 and 2009 H1N1. However, few works have thoroughly studied the binding hot spots in those two antigen-antibody interfaces which are responsible fo...

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are ubiquitous in Biology, and thus offer an enormous potential for the discovery of novel therapeutics. Although protein interfaces are large and lack defining physiochemical traits, is well established that only a small portion of interface residues, the so-called hot spot residues, contribute the most to the binding energy of the protein complex. Moreover,...

The near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray emission of Sagittarius A* shows occasional bright flares that are assumed to originate from the innermost region accretion flow. We identified 25 4.5 μm 24 in archival data obtained with Spitzer Chandra observatories. With help general relativistic ray-tracing code, we modeled trajectories “hot spots” studied light curves for signs effects relativity. Despite ...