Successful execution of the meiotic program depends on the timely establishment and removal of sister chromatid cohesion. LAB-1 has been proposed to act in the latter by preventing the premature removal of the meiosis-specific cohesin REC-8 at metaphase I in C. elegans, yet the mechanism and scope of LAB-1 function remained unknown. Here we identify an unexpected earlier role for LAB-1 in promo...

Accurately recognizing aerial photographs is a useful technique in many domains like autonomous driving and environmental evaluation. In practice, both low-resolution high-resolution photos are captured asynchronistically for each region, as there hundreds of earth observation satellites orbitting the earth. Realizing such multi-resolution-based region recognition difficult task due to three ch...

We consider variants of the cascade model of externalities in sponsored search auctions introduced independently by Aggrawal et al. and Kempe and Mahdian in 2008, where the click-through rate of a slot depends also on the ads assigned to earlier slots. Aggrawal et al. and Kempe and Mahdian give a dynamic programming algorithm for finding the efficient allocation in this model. We give worst-cas...

BACKGROUND The goal of the present study was to assess the effects of computed tomography (CT)-guided iodine-125 (125I) seed implantation or gelatin sponge particle (GSP) embolization on patients with giant benign sacral neurogenic tumors. METHODS A total of 24 cases with giant sacral neurogenic tumor were performed in a retrospective study between 2000 and 2012. Nineteen cases received surgi...

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is considered the gold standard for assessment of glycemic control in diabetic patients. HbA1c is inadequate in individuals homozygous or compound heterozygous for hemoglobin variants or in conditions with an altered red blood cell turnover. In these cases glycated albumin (GA) is proposed as an alternative assay. We aimed to evaluate the analytical performance of the Dia...

This paper is concerned with a problem on networks which we call the Generalized Subgraph Problem (GSP). The GSP is defined on an undirected graph where the vertex set is partitioned into clusters. The task is to find a subgraph which touches at most one vertex in each cluster so as to maximize the sum of vertex and edge weights. The GSP is a relaxation of several important problems of a ‘gener...

Recent studies have shown that blood HbA1c levels alone may not accurately reflect serum glucose concentrations in all diabetic patients. For certain diabetic patients, there exists a glycation gap. It was reported that the glycation gap information obtained by measuring HbA1c and glycated serum protein (GSP) or glycated albumin (GA) together may improve evaluation of diabetic patients by more ...

Most sponsored search auctions use the Generalized Second Price (GSP) rule. Given the GSP rule, they try to give an optimal allocation, an easy task when the only need is to allocate ads to slots. However, when other practical conditions must be fulfilled –such as budget constraints, exploration of the performance of new ads, etc.– optimal allocations are hard to obtain. We provide a method to ...

An extension of Graham’s classification of scheduling problems is proposed to cover Grid Scheduling Problems (GSP). The GSP consists of heterogeneous resources in distributed structures (queues), various jobs, and optimality criteria. We will discuss the characteristics (fault tolerance, competitive behavior) of this model and the hierarchies applied for description of the Grid structure.

An extension of Graham’s classification of scheduling problems is proposed to cover Grid Scheduling Problems (GSP). The GSP consists of heterogeneous resources in distributed structures (queues), various jobs, and optimality criteria. We will discuss the characteristics (fault tolerance, competitive behavior) of this model and the hierarchies applied for description of the Grid structure.