Recently, optical burst switching and aggregated optical packet switching have gained significant exposure as possible future mechanisms for routing aggregated IP traffic over all-optical core networks. However, the limited buffering capacity in all-optical networks presents a major challenge, as current IP traffic displays strong selfsimilar properties. Reducing the burst loss rate of such lon...

The inferior olivary nucleus provides one of the two main inputs to the cerebellum: the so-called climbing fibers. Activation of climbing fibers is generally believed to be related to timing of motor commands and/or motor learning. Climbing fiber spikes lead to large all-or-none action potentials in cerebellar Purkinje cells, overriding any other ongoing activity and silencing these cells for a...

Participation of phospholipase A (PLase A) in plant signal transduction has been documented for auxin stimulation of growth but not for elicitation of any plant defense response. In this paper, we report two independent assays for monitoring PLase A induction in plant cells and have used these assays to evaluate whether transduction of defense-related signals might require PLase A activation. O...

In this letter, we investigate the path length priority effect of existing just-enough-time (JET) scheme for optical burst switching (OBS) in the multiple hop network environments. And, we propose a novel hop-by-hop priority increasing (HPI) scheme using the input fiber delay lines (FDLs) at each node. Simulation results showed that the proposed FDL/delayed reservation (DR) with HPI scheme can ...

Accurate prediction of the burst pressure is essential for structural integrity assessment pipelines. Current design codes and models residual pipelines with surface corrosion defects are only applicable to axially orientated defects. Theoretical empirical thin-walled pipes pre-existing localised arbitrarily oriented defect proposed. The theoretical model based on power-law hardening J2 flow th...

We analyze the effect of synchronization in networks of chemically coupled multi-time-scale (spiking-bursting) neurons on the process of information transmission within the network. Although, synchronization occurs first in the slow time-scale (burst) and then in the fast time-scale (spike), we show that information can be transmitted with low probability of errors in both time scales when the ...

In order to solve the amplitude attenuation of electric fast transient (EFT) generator operating in high frequency, the charging and discharging process of energy storage capacitor in EFT generator are analyzed, the main circuit voltage variation mathematical model is established, the parameters of main loop circuit and the parameters of switch driving waveform which affect burst amplitude are ...

The aim of this work is to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems operating in burst-like packet loss. First a set of highly artificial packet loss profiles are used to analyse their effect on both recognition performance and on the underlying feature vector stream. This indicates that the simple technique of vector repetition can make the recogniser robust to high percentages of ...

The aim of this work is to improve the robustness of speech recognition systems operating in burst-like packet loss. First a set of highly artificial packet loss profiles are used to analyse their effect on both recognition performance and on the underlying feature vector stream. This indicates that the simple technique of vector repetition can make the recogniser robust to high percentages of ...