While it is widely held that an organism’s genomic information should remain constant, several protein families are known to modify it. Members of the AID/APOBEC protein family can deaminate DNA. Similarly, members of the ADAR family can deaminate RNA. Characterizing the scope of these events is challenging. Here we use large genomic data sets, such as the two billion sequences in the NCBI Trac...

We focus on the definition and identification of “Web user-sessions”, an aggregation of several TCP connections generated by the same source host on the basis of TCP connection opening time. The identification of a user session is non trivial; traditional approaches rely on threshold based mechanisms, which are very sensitive to the value assumed for the threshold, which may be difficult to cor...

one of the limitations of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ofdm) in many applications is its sensitivity to frequency shifts, errors normally referred to as carrier frequency offset (cfo). although, this small offset is negligible in conventional single carrier communication systems, it is a severe problem in the ofdm systems. because, the carriers in ofdm are inherently closely spac...

the light of the Genius Loci theory. The theory has been verified in many studies by the traditional-Islamic philosophers. Proving the closeness of these two viewpoints in extent and type of the environmental influences on disposition can open a venue for applying the theory of Genius Loci to establish a basis for environmental design in regions with Islamic and traditional cultures. This re...

There are three ways to characterize encoded video for the purpose of networking research: (i) video traffic model, (ii) video bit stream, and (iii) video traffic trace. Video traffic models strive to capture the essential properties of the real traffic in parsimonious mathematical models. Video traffic models are typically developed based on the statistical properties of samples of the real tr...

Placing a guard trace next to a signal line is the conventional technique for reducing the common-mode radiation from a printed circuit board. In this paper, the suppression of common-mode radiation from printed circuit boards having guard traces is estimated and evaluated using the imbalance difference model, which was proposed by the authors. To reduce common-mode radiation further, a procedu...