Reconstruction of host-pathogen protein interaction networks is of great significance to reveal the underlying microbic pathogenesis. However, the current experimentally-derived networks are generally small and should be augmented by computational methods for less-biased biological inference. From the point of view of computational modelling, data scarcity, data unavailability and negative data...

In a client-server type system, the server software is required to run continuously for very long periods. Due to repeated and potentially faulty usage by many clients, such software \ages" with time and eventually fails. Huang et. al. proposed a technique called \software rejuvenation" [9] in which the software is periodically stopped and then restarted in a \robust" state after proper mainten...

M of the options available to decision makers, such as college majors and romantic partners, can become unavailable if sufficient effort is not invested in them (taking classes, sending flowers). The question asked in this work is whether a threat of disappearance changes the way people value such options. In four experiments using “door games,” we demonstrate that options that threaten to disa...

The impact of contextual cues in motivating alcohol and other drug use may be influenced by the perceived availability of the substance. This study examined the relationship between perceived availability and alcohol cue reactivity using a quasi-experimental design that harnessed the legal age of alcohol availability in the United States. Participants were 95 (76% male) heavy drinkers in a 2 2 ...

Reproducibility is a fundamental requirement of scientific research. In this paper, we examine the repeatability, reproducibility, and generalizability of TAGME, one of the most popular entity linking systems. By comparing results obtained from its public API with (re)implementations from scratch, we obtain the following findings. The results reported in the TAGME paper cannot be repeated due t...

We present a new approach to retrieve Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from Moderate 15 Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over the turbid coastal water. This approach 16 supplements the operational Dark Target (DT) aerosol retrieval algorithm that currently don’t 17 conduct any AOD retrieval in the regions with large water-leaving radiances in the visible spectrum. 18 Over the global coas...

In a client-server type system, the server software is required t o run continuously for very long periods. Due to repeated and potentially faulty usage b y many clients, such software “ages” with time and eventually fails. Huang et. al. proposed a technique called %oftware rejuvenation” [9] in which the software i s periodically stopped and then restarted in a “robust” state a f ter proper mai...

We investigate a single machine scheduling problem with a fixed unavailability interval on machine and rejection job. The objective is to minimize the sum of the flow-time of the accepted jobs and penalties of rejected jobs. For the demonstrated NP-hard problem, we first propose a dynamic programming algorithm for solving small scale problem optimally. Further we propose an approximation algori...

In this paper, we analyze stability and L2 gain properties for discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems controlled by a pre-designed dynamical output feedback controller which fails from time to time due to physical or purposeful reason. Our aim is to find conditions concerning controller failure time, under which the system’s stability and L2 gain properties are preserved to a desired...

In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Strausbaugh et al. [1] present the results of 2 surveys of the Emerging Infections Network (EIN) performed in 1999 and 2000 regarding shortages of certain antibiotics. The EIN is a group of nearly 800 infectious disease physicians from all regions of the country, representing individual , group, and academic practices. They are supported by a contr...