The ability to control growth is essential for fundamental studies of bacterial physiology and biotechnological applications. We have engineered an Escherichia coli strain in which the transcription of a key component of the gene expression machinery, RNA polymerase, is under the control of an inducible promoter. By changing the inducer concentration in the medium, we can adjust the RNA polymer...

Problems with cognitive control in both autism and dyslexia have already been reported in different studies. The present study specifically examined task-switching performance in children with autism and dyslexia. For this purpose, a multiple-trial paradigm was used with cues for colour- and shape-matching tasks presented before a run of trials. The cue could imply a task switch (when the cue c...

The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane to increase the flexibility. In the data plane, the unavailability of data forwarding is a common problem preventing a switch from configuring a new arrival flow into its flow table. When the burst flows arrived at the switch, the flow table can be consumed, causing the unavailability occurred. However, the pr...

Network dilation is a way of offering system families, at a range of sizes and computational powers, which share an underlying communication architecture and routing algorithm. We consider indirect networks that connect processing nodes via intermediate switch nodes. In the simplest such indirect networks, there is a switching network of some regular topology, where each switch is connected to ...

A packet switch with parallel switching planes is a parallel packet switch (PPS). A PPS can scale-up to larger aggregate capacity and faster line speeds than can a single plane. It is an open problem to design a PPS that is feasible to implement using multiple lower speed packet switches. Many solutions proposed previously are essentially impractical because of high communication complexity. In...

The technique of hybrid redundancy has been used to protect those portions of a digital system which have to be made ultrareliable. Siewiorek and McCluskey have presented a new switch design for hybrid redundancy which is shown to be of less complexity than other switch designs presented in the literature. The possibility of increasing the overall system reliability is examined, considering sch...

We evaluate the usage of skill primitive nets for programming robots, which support hybrid control in a uniform way. This notation gives an easy and intuitive way to switch between position, velocity, and force control for each DOF independently as long as no inherent dependencies are affected. Robot specific restrictions within the work space are an intrinsic problem of the approach to a porta...

BACKGROUND Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a rare but serious complication of heparin therapy. The diagnosis of HIT is difficult because its signs are non-specific and the heparin-platelet factor 4 (PF4) antibody test used to confirm the diagnosis is imprecise. Drugs used to treat HIT are costly and may carry an increased risk of bleeding. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost effectivenes...