Epidemiological studies have consistently shown associations between elevated concentrations of urban particulate matter (UPM) air pollution and exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which are both associated with viral respiratory infections. The effects of UPM on dendritic cell (DC) -stimulated CD4 T lymphocytes have been investigated previously, but little work h...

Daniel Conde, Mariano Perales, Anne-Laure Le Gac, Christopher Dervinis, Matias Kirst, Stéphane Maury, Pablo González-Melendi and Isabel Allona Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Campus de Montegancedo UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain; LBLGC EA1207, USC 1...

In this paper, we analyze the end-to-end routing performance of a wireless sensor network with uncoordinated power management (UPM). In UPM, nodes power on and off with a predetermined duty cycle. We consider the effects of changing the specified duty cycle, spatial node density, and mobility on end-to-end delays, buffering requirements, and the actual, realized energy savings in both stationar...

A fundamental observation of comparative genomics is that the distribution of evolution rates across the complete sets of orthologous genes in pairs of related genomes remains virtually unchanged throughout the evolution of life, from bacteria to mammals. The most straightforward explanation for the conservation of this distribution appears to be that the relative evolution rates of all genes r...

2Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, UPM Serdang-43400, Malaysia 3Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Komar University of Science and Technology, ChaqChaq-Qularasisy, Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq *Corresponding author: Heshu Sulaiman Rahman, Department of Veterinary Clinical Scienc...

Title: A Systematic and Lightweight Method to identify dependencies between requirements. Student 1 suitability Software engineering course credits completed at BTH (total): 30 (BTH) + 60 (UPM) ECTS credit points Student 2 suitability Software engineering course credits completed at BTH (total): 30 (BTH) + 60 (UPM) ECTS credit points

Gene evolution is traditionally considered within the framework of the molecular clock (MC) model whereby each gene is characterized by an approximately constant rate of evolution. Recent comparative analysis of numerous phylogenies of prokaryotic genes has shown that a different model of evolution, denoted the Universal PaceMaker (UPM), which postulates conservation of relative, rather than ab...

In this note, we give tighter bounds on the complexity of the bipartite unique perfect matching problem, bipartite-UPM. We show that the problem is in C=L and in NL , both subclasses of NC. We also consider the (unary) weighted version of the problem. We show that testing uniqueness of the minimum-weight perfect matching problem for bipartite graphs is in L= and in NL. Furthermore, we show that...

Ultra-precision manufacturing (UPM) is a promising technology for fabricating micro-components and its production volume raises in the coming future due to significant increase highly technological products nowadays. Therefore, UPM industries are accountable executing sustainability practices minimize negative environmental impacts from their activities. However, sustainable difficult execute p...

Scrutiny of potential mergers by the European Commission often focuses on unilateral effects or single firm dominance. But some cases have involved concerns over coordinated effects: the concern that the merger could increase the likelihood of consumer harm through tacit collusion by the reduced number of firms in the industry (this is known as collective dominance). The economic and legal issu...