mobile computing systems are made up of different components among which mobile support stations (msss) play a key role. this paper proposes an efficient mss-based non-blocking coordinated checkpointing scheme for mobile computing environment. in the scheme suggested nearly all aspects of checkpointing and their related overheads are forwarded to the msss and as a result the workload of mobile ...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is the most successful therapy in treating chronic heart failure patients since the introduction of b-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and spironolactone into the therapeutic regimen. Recent studies (REVERSE, MADIT-CRT) will probably expand the indication for CRT to mild and asymptomatic heart failure patients [New York Heart Asso...

We present a new theory of decision under uncertainty: third-generation prospect theory (PT). This retains the predictive power of previous versions of prospect theory, but extends that theory by allowing reference points to be uncertain while decision weights are specified in a rank-dependent way. We show that PT preferences respect a state-conditional form of stochastic dominance. The theory ...

In order to estimate the mean of maternal antibody in calves against BHV-1 (Bovine Herpes virus type 1), this study was carried out in a population of calves from non-vaccinated dairy cattle at 2 livestock in Qazvin province. One hundred thirteen sera out of 512 were collected from 1-4 months unvaccinated calves. We used Blocking –Percentage of maternal antibodies against BHV-1, which obtained ...

Conceptually, blocking human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) integration is the last possibility for preventing irreversible cellular infection. Using cocultures of monocyte-derived dendritic cells and CD4(+) T cells, which represent primary targets in sexual transmission, we demonstrated that blocking integration with integrase strand transfer inhibitors (InSTIs), particularly L-870812, ...

JPEG is one of the most widely used image compression method, but it causes annoying blocking artifacts at low bit-rates. Sparse representation is an efficient technique which can solve many inverse problems in image processing applications such as denoising and deblocking. In this paper, a post-processing method is proposed for reducing JPEG blocking effects via sparse representation. In this ...

Phylogeography is a relatively new discipline that deals with the spatial arrangements of genetic lineages, especially within and among closely related species. The word phylogeography was coined in 1987 (Avise et al., 1987). About a decade earlier, scientists had begun using mitochondrial (mt) DNA to address precisely how conspecific individuals are genealogically linked through shared ancesto...

In this report, we consider prediction of an agent’s preferences over risky monetary outcomes using Prospect Theory. We suppose that for a given agent we have data on previous prospects that the agent has accepted or declined. Based on this information, we would like to predict whether the agent will accept some new prospect X∗. This amounts to learning a value function v and probability weight...

abstract this research attempts to investigate the role of the blocking systems in surface cyclogenesis over eastern mediterranean sea; but particular attention is focused on the flood of iran during march 2000 over western states of iran as: hamadan, ilam, lorestan, kermanshah, kurdestan, zanjan, ghazvin.the data used for this research includes upper level and mean sea level pressure charts ev...