The Internet of Things (IoT) will encompass a massive number of machine type devices that must wirelessly transmit, in near real-time, a diverse set of messages sensed from their environment. Designing resource allocation schemes to support such coexistent, heterogeneous communication is hence a key IoT challenge. In particular, there is a need for self-organizing resource allocation solutions ...

In this paper, we describe the integration of dynamic right-sizing — an automatic and scalable buffer management technique for enhancing TCP performance — into GridFTP, a subsystem of the Globus Toolkit for managing bulk data transfers across computational grids. Such grids are often characterized by networks with large bandwidth-delay products. Unfortunately, many of today’s grid applications ...

We examined age differences in temporal discounting, the tendency to devalue delayed outcomes relative to immediate ones, with particular emphasis on the role of affective responses. A life-span sample completed an incentive-compatible temporal discounting task involving both monetary gains and losses. Covariates included demographic characteristics, cognitive functioning, personality traits, a...

The regulation of cognitive activity relies on the flexibility of prefrontal cortex functions. To study this mechanism we compared monkey dorsolateral prefrontal activity in two different spatial cognitive tasks: a delayed response task and a self-organized problem-solving task. The latter included two periods, a search by trial and error for a correct response, and a repetition of the response...

A simple concept for automatic adjustment of important VLSI{circuit properties was proposed in 1]. As an application, a self adjusting monooop is reviewed, and detailed measurements are discussed regarding a possible implementation in the LHC 1 readout chip for the ATLAS{experiment 2].

In playing Ayo game, both opening and endgames are often stylized. The opening is very interesting with both players showing skills by the speed of their movements. However, there exists an endgame strategy in Ayo game called Completely Determined Game (CDG) such that its usefulness for ending a game should be apparent. In this paper, we present the CDG as a class of endgame strategy and descri...

INTRODUCTION Patients have the right to influence the care they receive, but their wish to participate in care decision-making is unclear. AIM This study investigates whether participation in nursing documentation influences patient participation in care decision-making, mastery, self-esteem, empowerment and depressive feelings among adult in-patients with chronic disease. MATERIALS AND MET...

Numerous studies indicate that focusing on one’s important values or attributes, a process known as self-affirmation, facilitates forming intentions to change one’s behaviors in selfthreatening domains. However, little is known about the mechanisms that underlie these effects. The present study tested the pre-registered hypothesis that self-affirmation increases intentions to change health-rele...

This paper describes a new approach for automatic speechreading. First, we use efficient, but effective representation of visible speech: a geometric lipshape model. Then we present an automatic objective method to merge phonemes that appear visually similar into visemes for our speaker. In order to determine visemes, we trained SOM using the Kohonen algorithm on each phoneme extracted from our...

A formal framework for the analysis of Hopf bifurcations in delay differential equations with a single time delay is presented. Closed-form linear algebraic equations are determined and the criticality of bifurcations is calculated by normal forms.