Defects in DNA replication are associated with genetic instability and cancer development, as illustrated in Bloom syndrome. Features of this syndrome include a slowdown in replication speed, defective fork reactivation and high rates of sister chromatid exchange, with a general predisposition to cancer. Bloom syndrome is caused by mutations in the BLM gene encoding a RecQ helicase. Here we rep...

The Bloom filter is a simple random binary data structure which can be efficiently used for approximate set membership testing. When testing for membership of an object, the Bloom filter may give a false positive, whose probability is the main performance figure of the structure. We complete and extend the analysis of the Bloom filter available in the literature by means of the γ-transform appr...

Content Centric Network (CCN) is an emerging information centric network design. There are a lot of studies focusing on caching, applications and so on to make CCN getting perfect, while the scalability of Pending Interest Table (PIT) is still one of the primary concerns of high-speed forwarding. In this paper, we make an attempt to compress PIT with bloom filter. This paper has two contributio...

The photosynthetic behavior of the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax tamarensis was investigated using single-cell isolation techniques at various stages during growth in a natural bloom in Salt Pond, Massachusetts, USA, and in laboratory cultures. Cell-specific photosynthetic capacity (PrnaxCen) increased from 0.25 to 0.32 ng C cell-' h-' during bloom development, then dropped sharply to 0.19 ng C cell...

The spring bloom on the Scotian Shelf is examined using a mooring array deployed from 18 March 2002 to 18 April 2002 to provide physical, chemical, and biological measurements with high temporal and vertical resolution. These measurements are complemented by the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP) biweekly occupations of a station near the mooring site (HL2). Results from AZMP sampling and ...

This paper analyses the cognitive difficulty of six courses that may be taken as credit towards an IT degree offered by a regional Australian University. The assessment requirements of these six courses are evaluated using Bloom’s taxonomy and from this a difficulty metric, called here a Bloom Rating, is computed for each course. The analysis reveals that some quite lowly courses in terms of th...

Undoubtedly, dealing with security issues is one of the most important and complex tasks various networks face today. A large number of security algorithms have been proposed to enhance security in various types of networks. Many of these solutions are either directly or indirectly based on Bloom filter (BF), a spaceand timeefficient probabilistic data structure introduced by Burton Bloom in 19...

In this paper a binary biometric comparator based on Counting Bloom filters is introduced. Within the proposed scheme binary biometric feature vectors are analyzed and appropriate bit sequences are mapped to Counting Bloom filters. The comparison of resulting sets of Counting Bloom filters significantly improves the biometric performance of the underlying system. The proposed approach is applie...

Bloom Filters provide space-efficient storage of sets at the cost of a probability of false positives on membership queries. The size of the filter must be defined a priori based on the number of elements to store and the desired false positive probability, being impossible to store extra elements without increasing the false positive probability. This leads typically to a conservative assumpti...