Description of data quality relies heavily on numbers. When dealing with data sets, which have been collected during longer periods, however, variation in the data quality will become evident. Older data may have different quality than newer data and other aspects including height or accessibility may influence the quality of parts of the data set. Precise numbers do not reflect this variation,...

After the 90th, in order to strengthen the position of the global scientific and technological competition, Japan launched a series of higher education reform to protect the quality of education. The number of schools, the number of students accounted for more than 70% of the total number of private universities in Japan; there is no doubt that the key to the quality of the education is reform....

Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment (DIVE) applications, deployed through Internet. Our goal is to understand the behaviour of a DIVE application, its interaction with competing traffic streams, as well as its network resource requirements for a satisfactory performance. As DIVE is becoming the building block of new applications and services, impacting several established or new and gro...

The recent emergence of public cloud offerings, surge computing -outsourcing tasks from an enclosed knowledge centre to a cloud supplier in times of serious loadhas become a lot of accessible to a large vary of customers. Deciding that workload to source to what cloud supplier in such a setting, however, is way from trivial The target of this call is to maximise the use of the interior knowledg...

QuaCRS (Quality Control for RNA-Seq) is an integrated, simplified quality control (QC) system for RNA-seq data that allows easy execution of several open-source QC tools, aggregation of their output, and the ability to quickly identify quality issues by performing meta-analyses on QC metrics across large numbers of samples in different studies. It comprises two main sections. First is the QC Pa...

The increase in mobile phone penetration is stimulating a trend towards the use of mobile phones to supplement or even replace traditional telephone surveys. Despite this trend, few studies have systematically compared differences between the two modes. This paper describes a study in which both mobile and fixed phones were used to collect data on a national survey on internet and cultural prac...

Now a days mobile phones are most often used for data communication rather than voice calls. Due to this change in user behavior, there is a need to improve the QoS received by the user. One of the ways of improving the QoS is an efficient scheduling algorithm which incorporates the needs of the users and variation in channel condition. The parameters used to measure the efficiency of the sched...

1047-3203/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jvcir.2011.03.011 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +886 4 26324045. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.-C. Chuang This paper proposes an image authentication scheme which detects illegal modifications for image vector quantization (VQ). In the proposed scheme, the index table is divided into non-overlapping index blocks. The authen...

MOTIVATION We present a pipeline for the pre-processing, quality assessment, read distribution and methylation estimation for methylated DNA immunoprecipitation (MeDIP)-sequence datasets. This is the first MeDIP-seq-specific analytic pipeline that starts at the output of the sequencers. This pipeline will reduce the data analysis load on staff and allows the easy and straightforward analysis of...

Abstract After remodeling the economies of the Western world all along the 1980s, deindustrialization abruptly hit the former socialist countries in the early 1990s. Deindustrialization with destructuring meant the disintegration of the economic structure and industrial cities, and regions entered a downsizing spiral of population loss after the breakdown of traditional industries, outmigration...