Mobility is regarded as the most important feature needed to achieve adaptability and flexibility in the executing of service components. As such, service system could be able to cope with the handling of dynamic changes in the availability of resources and position of users. On the other hand, providing user-centric and personal-content driven wide range of services, more commonly wireless one...

Insufficient oxygen transfer can result in anaerobic biofilms and odor generation during biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) removal in trickling filters, and can limit ammonia oxidation in nitrifying trickling filters. Since oxygen transfer to biofilms in plastic media trickling filters occurs by diffusion of oxygen through thin fluid films, previous models used solutions based on penetration theo...

In the Edge-Disjoint Paths with Congestion problem (EDPwC), we are given an undirected nvertex graph G, a collectionM = {(s1, t1), . . . , (sk, tk)} of demand pairs and an integer c. The goal is to connect the maximum possible number of the demand pairs by paths, so that the maximum edge congestion the number of paths sharing any edge is bounded by c. When the maximum allowed congestion is c = ...

A Traffic Trunk is an MPLS traffic engineering concept that provides a mean for distributing the available network capacity between multiplexed streams. The traffic parameters describing a Traffic Trunk are basic to establish the network capacity that needs to be allocated in order to guarantee QoS. Traditional voice traffic characterization needs to be updated to include Silence Descriptor Ins...

SD Kucich et al. (1) described an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (EUSA) for soluble degradation products of elastin (elastin-derived peptides, EDP) in plasma. They reported a nonspecific loss of measurable EDP owing to coacervation of the elastin-a physical phenomenon in which certain proteins exhibit reversible aggregation on heating or increasing the ionic strength (2). We modified an ELIS...

EDP-420 (also known as EP-013420, or S-013420) is a first-in-class bridged bicyclolide currently in clinical development for the treatment of respiratory tract infections (RTI) and has previously shown favorable pharmacokinetic (PK) and safety profiles after the administration of single oral doses of a suspension to healthy volunteers. Here we report its PK profile after the administration of m...

OBJECTIVE Although tight blood pressure (BP) control is proven to reduce diabetes-related cardiovascular risk, it has been difficult to achieve in practice, perhaps in part because of low-quality monitoring data. We hypothesized that low-quality BP data, reflected in end-digit preference (EDP), remains common in primary care of diabetic adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data were abstracted...

We present Continuously Adaptive Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling in Linux systems running on Intel i7 and AMD Phenom II processors. By exploiting slack, inherent in memory-bound programs, our approach aims to improve power efficiency even when the processor does not sit idle. Our underlying methodology is based on a simple first-order processor performance model in which frequency scaling is ...

Knowledge management has recently become the focus of public attention in business and engineering. Because knowledge acquisition is situated in the upstream of knowledge management, capturing knowledge is an important step for enterprises to achieve successful knowledge management. We focus on how engineers solve their design problems under given design contexts and propose a novel model and m...

In ad hoc networks, each node utilizes its limited resources to carry out the collective operation of the network. It is not always in the best interests of the network’s nodes to demand the continuous participation of all nodes in the network operations. In this work, we propose an Energy Dependent Participation (EDP) scheme, where a node periodically re-evaluates its participation in the netw...