Future Quality of Service (QoS) aware networks, such as those based on the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture, will provide users with the opportunity to prioritize the traffic they receive and generate. Different priorities will entail different per-byte or per-packet charges. To aid users operating within such an environment, a priority selection strategy is required. In this pap...

A design algorithm for two-layer feedforward neural networks (2FNNs) for discrete input-output mapping is proposed. In this algorithm, uniformly quantized discrete weights are used, which could be in the form of either onepowers-of-two (OPOT) values or sum-of-powers-of-two (SPOT) values. The simplified sigmoid activation functions (SSAFs) are used at hidden neurons and the step functions are us...

MOTIVATION Microarrays can simultaneously measure the expression levels of many genes and are widely applied to study complex biological problems at the genetic level. To contain costs, instead of obtaining a microarray on each individual, mRNA from several subjects can be first pooled and then measured with a single array. mRNA pooling is also necessary when there is not enough mRNA from each ...

The increasing use of productivity and impact metrics for evaluation and comparison, not only of individual researchers but also of institutions, universities and even countries, has prompted the development of bibliometrics. Currently, metrics are becoming widely accepted as an easy and balanced way to assist the peer review and evaluation of scientists and/or research units, provided they hav...

11 RNAseq is a relatively new tool for ecological genetics that offers researchers insight into changes 12 in gene expression in response to a myriad of natural or experimental conditions. However, standard 13 RNAseq methods (e.g., Illumina TruSeq or NEBNext) can be cost prohibitive, especially when 14 study designs require large sample sizes. Consequently, RNAseq is often underused as a method...

We propose a density functional perturbative scheme to approximate the energy of a high-level DFT calculation at a significantly reduced cost. Our approach involves performing a primary SCF calculation using a crude functional, basis set and quadrature grid, followed by a single step using a more sophisticated secondary functional, basis and grid. Unlike the earlier dual-level DFT approach of N...

The rise of economic globalization and evolution of information technology, financial data are being generated and accumulated at an extraordinary speed. As a result, there has been a critical need for automated approaches to effective and efficient utilization of massive amount of financial data to support companies and individuals in strategic planning and investment decisionmaking. The compe...

Industrial automation networks (IANs) involve the control system that communicates with the sensors to collect processrelated data. To ensure proper control, the control system acts on the physical variables measured by issuing the commands or signals that activate relays, solenoids, motors, and actuators. The implementation of the control system for a wind power station is a time-consuming pro...

The bituminous pavement rehabilitation alternatives are mainly overlaying, recycling and reconstruction. In the recycling process the material from deteriorated pavement, known as reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), is partially or fully reused in fresh construction. Some of the advantages associated with pavement recycling are (i) less user delay (ii) conservation of energy (iii) preservation of...

In his counterpoint article, Davidson (1) argues that self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) in type 2 diabetic subjects not using insulin is a waste of money. However, as the discussions accompanying and following publication of a new meta-analysis by Welschen et al. (2) demonstrate, the evidence is far from conclusive either for or against use of SMBG in this patient group. As pointed out by...