1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE A s reflected elsewhere in this inaugural issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing, pervasive, or ubiquitous, computing requires the integration of multiple technologies, including software, hardware, and human-computer interaction (HCI). To prepare students for this new paradigm in computing, we need multidisciplinary academic programs and courses. Furthermore, real-wo...

Mutagenesis is an important tool for breeding and genomic research. In this study, the germinated seeds isolated microspores of a double haploid line ‘FT’ were treated with EMS, respectively, aim comparing effects two approaches on generating mutants in Chinese cabbage. For microspore EMS mutagenesis, 0.12% 20 min, total 1268 plantlets obtained, 15 M1 screened mutation frequency 1.2%. seed 7800...

1536-1268/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE ! Published by the IEEE CS and IEEE ComSoc PERVASIVEcomputing 9 W hat if networked computers were as cheap as paper clips and could be attached to things as easily as a yellow sticky? We are about to find out, because such computers are being deployed across the world as you read this. They are, of course, Radio Frequency Identification tags—low-power, short-rang...

Between 1268 and 1797, the Venetian Republic used a complicated voting system that appears designed to resist manipulation. The system starts with randomly drawing voters, followed by 8 rounds of a complicated addition and elimination of voters before the approval voting rule is finally used to select the winner, the new Doge. In this paper, we study a family of voting rules inspired by this Ve...

© 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 Diabetes UK. Diabetic Medicine , 23 , 1268–1274 the metabolic syndrome were entered as categorical variables (instead of the metabolic syndrome as a single entity), only hypertension and dyslipidaemia ( P < 0.001 for both), along with older age, male sex and smoking history, showed independent associations with incident CVD events (data not shown)....

Cardioprotective effect of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women: is the evidence biased? BMJ 1994; 308: 1268–9. 8. Marsh JL, Hutton JL, Binks K. Removal of radiation dose response effects: an example of over-matching. BMJ 2002; 325: 327–30. 9. Gronbaek M, Deis A, Becker U, Hein HO, Schnohr P, Jensen P et al. Alcohol and mortality: is there a U-shaped relation in elderly people? A...

A bacterial enrichment culture (specific to doubly flanked chlorine removal) reductively dechlorinated 2,3,4,5-tetrachlorobiphenyl (2,3,4,5-CB) to 2,3,5-trichlorobiphenyl (2,3,5-CB) in aqueous media. Approximately 90% conversion to 2,3,5-CB occurred after 90 days, with no other products formed. The delta13C values of 2,3,4,5-CB and 2,3,5-CB were relatively constant over the course of the reacti...

Published by the IEEE CS n 1536-1268/17/$33.00 © 2017 IEEE T amount of business travel I have been doing has greatly increased in the past year—so much so that I have achieved “status” on one of the airlines, which makes the travel a bit more bearable. However, all of this travel has really hammered home the power issues of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things. When I travel, I bring ...

1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE N ational health expenditures this year are estimated at about US$1.5 trillion, or almost 15 percent of GDP, by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (www.cms.gov). This comprises the largest service sector in the US economy. Moreover, cost increases are outpacing general inflation, so the health care industry is again under pressure to become more effic...

The effect of Hg and PCBs (Aroclor 1268) on bone characteristics was investigated in a population of Clapper Rails (Rallus longirostris) inhabiting contaminated and unimpacted estuarine marsh systems in coastal Georgia. Exposure to contaminants did not affect the length or weight of leg bones, but it significantly altered the chemical composition of the bone. Specifically, bone in the contamina...