In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed to estimate the dropping probabilities of cellular wireless networks by queuing handoff instead of reserving guard channels. Usually, prioritized handling of handoff calls is done with the help of guard channel reservation. To evaluate the proposed model, gamma inter-arrival and general service time distributions have been considered. Prevention o...

Guard cells of onion irradiated with broad-band blue light display a green intrinsic fluorescence. The fluorescence has been found in eleven species of Allium, but it has not been observed in any other monocot or dicot examined. The fluorescence occurs only in guard cells and is absent in neighbouring epidermal cells. During development it is first apparent in guard mother cells soon after the ...

A point in the plane is called a guard for the convex set C if it lies in the interior of C. Let P be a planar point-set. A set S of points is a k-convex guard set for P if every convex k-gon formed from points of P contains a guard from S. We study, for any integer k 3, the minimum size of a k-convex guard set of a given planar point-set of size n. We give the tight bounds for the case k = 3, ...

Mobile guards on the vertices of a graph are used to defend the graph against an infinite sequence of attacks on vertices. A guard must move from a neighboring vertex to an attacked vertex (we assume attacks happen only at vertices containing no guard and that each vertex contains at most one guard). More than one guard is allowed to move in response to an attack. The m-eternal domination numbe...

To comprehensively grasp cell biological events in plant stomatal movement, we have captured microscopic images of guard cells with various organelles markers. The 28,530 serial optical sections of 930 pairs of Arabidopsis guard cells have been released as a new image database, named Live Images of Plant Stomata (LIPS). We visualized the average organellar distributions in guard cells using pro...

This paper investigates the performance of digital pulse interval modulation (DPIM) in the presence of multipath propagation and additive white Gaussian noise. The results for optical power requirements normalised to the average optical power required by the on-and-off keying (OOK) verses the channel normalised delay spread for DPIM without guard band and with guard bands are presented, and are...

Fault containment is an important constituent of fault tolerance. Means for fault containment allow a system to limit the impact of manifested faults to some predefined system boundaries. This document presents some of the best known techniques for fault containment formatted as design patterns. These patterns are elicited from the areas of self-stabilization, specification closure and fault to...

During adaptation of plants to water stress/drought, the tiny pores on the leaf surface, called “stomata,” play a very important role. Stomatal movements can modulate the entry/exit of not only CO2/water (Lawson and Blatt, 2014) but also microbial pathogens (Agurla et al., 2014; Arnaud and Hwang, 2015). The stomatal opening/closure is brought out by changes in the turgor of guard cells. The abi...

Stomata are pores on the leaf surface, which are formed by a pair of curved, tubular guard cells; an increase in turgor pressure deforms the guard cells, resulting in the opening of the stomata. Recent studies employed numerical simulations, based on experimental data, to analyze the effects of various structural, chemical, and mechanical features of the guard cells on the stomatal opening char...