High throughput screening of SICLOPPS libraries afforded six distinct cyclic peptides that inhibit Escherichia coli growth both in liquid and solid media. One of these peptides (LN05) reduced both bacterial growth rate and caused cell aggregation in liquid media. Mutant bacteria immune to LN05 action were obtained at a frequency of 10(-7). Over-expression of an E. coli genomic library in the pr...

For a large number of data management problems, it would be very useful to be able to obtain a few samples from a data set, and to use the samples to guess the largest (or smallest) value in the entire data set. Min/max online aggregation, top-k query processing, outlier detection, and distance join are just a few possible applications. This paper details a statistically rigorous, Bayesian appr...

Though the tremendous work has been done in the field of wireless sensor networks, due to the two challenging aspects (i.e. energy consumption and routing).This paper provides a survey of various techniques to address the challenges in wireless sensor networks. And comparatives study provides comparison between all existing techniques based on the parameters (i.e. energy and network lifetime). ...

EVOLVING AGGREGATION BEHAVIORS FOR SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS: A SYSTEMATIC CASE STUDY

We develop a new decision making approach for dealing with uncertain information and apply it in tourism management. We use a new aggregation operator that uses the uncertain weighted average (UWA) and the uncertain induced ordered weighted averaging (UIOWA) operator in the same formulation. We call it the uncertain induced ordered weighted averaging – weighted averaging (UIOWAWA) operator. We ...

Xu and Da [Z.S. Xu, Q.L. Da, The uncertain OWA operator, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 17 (2002) 569–575] introduced the uncertain ordered weighted averaging (UOWA) operator to aggregate the input arguments taking the form of intervals rather than exact numbers. In this paper, we develop some dependent uncertain ordered weighted aggregation operators, including dependent uncerta...

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Some previous research on the contextual causes of individual political participation has argued that increasing community heterogeneity increases political participation; while other researchers have claimed the opposite: that increasing community homogeneity (decreasing heterogeneity) increases participation. These theories use the different mechanisms of conflict and improved social networks...

Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) with expertise in the collection, analysis and presentation of data and the development of supporting technologies, have potential to inform humanitarian aid organizations and help increase the efficiency of their operations. This study analyzes the role of V&TCs during recent response efforts and identifies a number of challenges of organizational na...

In this paper we present two new types aggregation operators such as, induced Pythagorean fuzzy ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator and induced Pythagorean fuzzy hybrid averaging aggregation operator. We also discuss of important properties of these proposed operators and construct some examples to develop these operators.