Supermassive black holes (BHs) appear to be ubiquitous at the center of all galaxies which have been observed at high enough sensitivities and resolution with the Hubble Space Telescope. Their masses are found to be tightly linked with the masses and velocity dispersions of their host galaxies. On the other hand, BHs are widely held to constitute the central engines of quasars and active galact...

Synthetic Biology is a field involving synthesis of novel biological systems which are not generally found in nature. It has brought a new paradigm in science as it has enabled scientists to create life from the scratch, hence helping better understand the principles of biology. The viability of living organisms that use unnatural molecules is also being explored. Unconventional projects such a...

The purpose of this application is to conserve the current universal understanding and usage of the specific names of Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, [1789]) and M. halli Mathews, 1912, for the southern, antarctic and the more northern, subantarc-tic species of giant petrel respectively (family PRO-CELLARIIDAE).The namegiganteus (type species of the genusMacronectes Richmond,...

Many signal processing systems, particularly in the multimedia and telecommunication domains, are synthesized to execute data-intensive applications: their cost related aspects – namely power consumption and chip area – are heavily influenced, if not dominated, by the data access and storage aspects. This chapter presents a power-aware memory allocation methodology. Starting from the high-level...

Addiction is frequently modeled as a behavioral disorder resulting from the internal battle between two subsystems: one model describes slow planning versus fast habitual action; another, hot versus cold modes. In another model, one subsystem pushes the individual toward substance abuse, while the other tries to pull him away. These models all describe one side winning over the other at each po...

A Redirection Botnet (RBnet) is a vast collection of compromised computers (called bots) used as a redirection/proxy infrastructure and under the control of a botmaster. We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a system called Redirection Botnet Seeker (RB-Seeker) for automatic detection of RBnets by utilizing three cooperating subsystems. Two of the subsystems are used to genera...

A grand challenge in genome science of the 21 century is to computationally predict systemic functional behaviors of the cell, organism, and the ecosystem from genomics and molecular information, especially for the purpose of medical, industrial, and other practical applications. This will require new bioinformatics, not simply for screening the large-scale data, but rather for reconstructing t...

The present study used a stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical framework to examine the relationship between theme park tourists’ experience, brand identity, satisfaction, and loyalty in China. By using structural equation model (CB-SEM), this paper illustrates process of forming destination for sustainable tourism on parks. results suggested second-order structure experience. first-or...