A smartphone user’s personal hotspot (pH) allows him to share cellular connection to another (e.g., a traveler) in the vicinity, but such sharing consumes the limited data quota in his two-part tariff plan and may lead to overage charge. This paper studies how to motivate such pH-enabled data-plan sharing between local users and travelers in the ever-growing roaming markets, and proposes pricin...

Polydipsic hyponatremic schizophrenic patients (PHS) exhibit enhanced plasma arginine vasopressin (pAVP) and hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis responses to stress that appear attributable to anterior hippocampal dysfunction. Neuroanatomic and electrophysiologic studies indicate oxytocin activity in PHS patients should also be affected. Furthermore, oxytocin normally diminishes HPA respo...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) has been widely used in the mapping of the primary motor cortex, as well as in the study of language, memory, mood, auditory or visual perception [4]. Similarly to EEG or MEG, it provides information Motor Evoked Potentials (MEP) located on the surface of the scalp and requires a registration between the physical space (PhS) and a MRI for proper interpret...

This letter investigates the design of a class infinite-dimensional observers for one dimensional (1D) boundary controlled port-Hamiltonian systems (BC-PHS) defined by differential operators order N≥1. The convergence proposed observer depends on number and location available measurements. Asymptotic is assured N≥1, provided that enough measurements are available, exponential can be cases N=1 N...

The current and projected climate change that is represented by increasing temperatures humidity levels irregular rainfall patterns promotes the occurrence of preharvest sprouting (PHS) in wheat. PHS results significant economic losses, globally, which necessitates need for high-yielding cultivars with increased tolerance; hence, this study was conducted. evaluated two doubled-haploid (DH) whea...

The hydrolysis of ceramides in yeast is catalysed by the alkaline ceramidases Ypc1p and Ydc1p, two highly homologous membrane proteins localized to the ER (endoplasmic reticulum). As observed with many enzymes, Ypc1p can also catalyse the reverse reaction, i.e. condense a non-esterified fatty acid with PHS (phytosphingosine) or DHS (dihydrosphingosine) and thus synthesize ceramides. When incuba...

Variation in endocrine signaling is proposed to underlie the evolution and regulation of social life histories, but the genetic architecture of endocrine signaling is still poorly understood. An excellent example of a hormonally influenced set of social traits is found in the honey bee (Apis mellifera): a dynamic and mutually suppressive relationship between juvenile hormone (JH) and the yolk p...

The diurnal tegu lizard Tupinambis merianae exhibits a marked circadian variation in metabolism that is characterized by the significant increase in metabolism during part of the day. These increases in metabolic rate, found in the fasting animal, are absent during the first 2 d after meal ingestion but reappear subsequently, and the daily increase in metabolic rate is added to the increase in ...

We determined hypocenter distributions and focal mechanisms of earthquakes off the Boso Peninsula, Japan, based on seafloor observations using ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs). From OBS data, we detected and located earthquakes that were closer to the trenches than had previously been reported. The determined focal depths of relocated hypocenters were systematically shallower than those in the ...

A primary hydration shell (PHS) approach is developed for Monte Carlo simulations of conformationally rich macromolecular systems in an environment that efficiently captures principal solvation effects. It has been previously demonstrated that molecular dynamics using PHS is an efficient method to study peptide structure and dynamics in aqueous solution. Here, we extend the PHS approach to Mont...