The Internet of Things (IoT) is defined as a paradigm in which objects equipped with sensors, actuators, and processors communicate with each other to serve a meaningful purpose. In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art methods, protocols, and applications in this new emerging area. This survey paper proposes a novel taxonomy for IoT technologies, highlights some of the most important technolo...

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T he search for a means of measuring left ventricular volume (LVV) accurately and continuously throughout the cardiac cycle has been long standing. Such efforts have intensified during the past 15 years with the growing appreciation for the wealth of useful information available from analysis of systolic and diastolic ventricular pressure-volume relations. Recently, much effort has gone into de...

The course of any disease is determined by a complex interplay between innate characteristics and environmental triggers. Accordingly, evidence-based risk factor assessment in heart disease requires a detailed family history to gauge inherited features and accurate estimates of smoking, diet, exercise, and other aspects that constitute important extrinsic disease modifiers. The value of traditi...

K umagai et al. describe how cy-clin-dependent kinases (Cdks) initiate DNA replication by promoting the interaction of two proteins conserved from yeast to mammals. In budding yeast, Cdks phosphorylate two replication origin proteins called Sld2 and Sld3, allowing them to bind a third protein called Dpb11. Together, these proteins recruit Cdc45, which then promotes the activation of the MCM hel...