The paper introduces a new class of functions from [0,1]n to [0,n] called d-Choquet integrals. These are generalization the “standard” Choquet integral obtained by replacing difference in definition usual dissimilarity function. In particular, all integrals encompasses but use dissimilarities provides higher flexibility and generality. We show that some aggregation/pre-aggregation/averaging/fun...

Providing efficient data privacy and data aggregation simultaneously is a challenging work in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose a novel queue based privacy-preserving data aggregation scheme for additive aggregation function. In the scheme, sensor nodes are divided into clusters in a distributed way first, and then, in each cluster, cluster members will form a queue and adopt ...

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of over 30 human pathologies. In these diseases, the aggregation of one or a few specific proteins is often toxic, leading to cellular degeneration and/or organ disruption in addition to the loss-of-function resulting from protein misfolding. Although the pathophysiological consequences of these diseases are overt, the molecular dysregulations leading to aggreg...

Platelet aggregation is the key process in primary hemostasis. Certain conditions such as hypoxia may induce platelet aggregation and lead to platelet sequestration primarily in the pulmonary microcirculation. We investigated the influence of high-altitude exposure on platelet function as part of a larger study on 30 subjects with a history of high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and 10 healthy...

background: protein aggregation is one of the important, common and troubling problems in biotechnology, pharmaceutical industries and amyloid-related disorders. methods: in the present study, the inhibitory effects of some carbohydrates (alginate, β-cyclodextrin and trehalose) on the formation of nano-globular aggregates from normal (hsa) and glycated (ghsa) human serum albumin were studied; w...

Data aggregation in wireless sensor networks (WSN) helps eliminate information redundancy and increase the lifetime of the network. When homomorphic encryption is used for data aggregation, end-to-end encryption is achieved and aggregation function like average or minimum/maximum can be computed on the encrypted data. Aggregation functions like minimum/maximum rely on comparison operation. But,...

Numerous human diseases are associated with the chronic expression of misfolded and aggregation-prone proteins. The expansion of polyglutamine residues in unrelated proteins is associated with the early onset of neurodegenerative disease. To understand how the presence of misfolded proteins leads to cellular dysfunction, we employed Caenorhabditis elegans polyglutamine aggregation models. Here,...

In the paper we study a method extending fuzzy measures on the set N = {1, . . . , n} to n-ary aggregation functions on the interval [0, 1]. The method is based on a fixed suitable n-ary aggregation function and the Möbius transform of the considered fuzzy measure. This approach generalizes the wellknown Lovász and Owen extensions of fuzzy measures. We focus our attention on the special class o...