Keeping chromosomes apart

Keeping drivers together and vehicles apart – a systems approach to understanding the conflicts in VANET applications

This paper reviews a range of problems in the road transport field, and the potential role of the vehicular ad hoc network system (VANETs) in helping to solve them. In reality, the communications requirements vary widely from one application to the next, in terms of range, latency, and connectivity together with vehicle and roadside hardware. Applications that promise the greatest safety benefi...

The Invincible Character of Management Consulting Rhetoric: How One Blends Incommensurates while Keeping them Apart

As experts and fashion setters of the business community, management consultants have a strong position in modern society. We argue that the basis of this position is the size of the rhetorical space of legitimate arguments open to consultants. In legitimating their activities, consultants produce a great array of arguments based on two contradictory myths or master-ideas recurrent in the busin...

Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true from the false.

Microtubule Sliding within the Bridging Fiber Pushes Kinetochore Fibers Apart to Segregate Chromosomes

During cell division, mitotic spindle microtubules segregate chromosomes by exerting forces on kinetochores. What forces drive chromosome segregation in anaphase remains a central question. The current model for anaphase in human cells includes shortening of kinetochore fibers and separation of spindle poles. Both processes require kinetochores to be linked with the poles. Here we show, by comb...

APART+: Boosting APART performance via optimistic pipelining of output events

APART (A Posteriori Active ReplicaTion) is a recently proposed active replication protocol specifically tailored for multi-tier data acquisition systems. It ensures consistency of middle-tier sink replicas by means of an a-posteriori synchronization phase based on reconciliation, which is activated only in case replicas react to an input message from the sensors by generating an output event de...