After numerous breakthroughs in medicine, microbiology, and pathology in the past century, lung cancer still remains as a leading cause of cancer-related death even in the developed countries. Lung cancer accounts roughly for 30% of all cancer-related deaths in the world. Diagnosis and treatments are still based on traditional histopathology. It is of paramount importance to predict the surviva...

For most computer end–users, web browsers and Internet services act as the providers and protectors of their personal information, from bank accounts to personal correspondence. These systems are critical to users’ continued lifestyles but often show no evidence of survivability [43], or robustness against present and future attacks. Software defects, considered the largest risk to survivabilit...

Mobile multi-robot teams deployed for monitoring or search-and-rescue missions in urban disaster areas can greatly improve the quality of vital data collected on-site. Analysis of such data can identify hazards and save lives. Unfortunately, such real deployments at scale are cost prohibitive and robot failures lead to data loss. Moreover, scaled-down deployments do not capture significant leve...

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is composed of interdependent physical-resource and cyber-resource networks that are tightly coupled. The malfunction of nodes in a network may trigger failures to the other network and further cause cascading failures, which would potentially lead to the complete collapse of the entire system. The number and communication of operating nodes at stable state are clo...

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is composed of interdependent physical-resource and cyber-resource networks that are tightly coupled. The malfunction of nodes in a network may trigger failures to the other network and further cause cascading failures, which would potentially lead to the complete collapse of the entire system. The number and communication of operating nodes at stable state are clo...

background: this study was conducted to evaluate fibroblast co-culture and activin a on in vitro maturation and fertilization of mouse preantral follicles. methods: the ovaries from 12-14-day-old mice were dissected, and 120-150 μm preantral follicles were cultured individually in α-mem as based medium for 12 days. a total number of 456 follicles were cultured in four conditions: (i) base mediu...

Survivability is defined as the capability of a platform to avoid or withstand man-made hostile environment. Military aircraft in particular, but also other kinds platforms subjected external, impacting threats, are commonly designed according increasing survivability requirements. The concept was first formalized by R. Ball 1985 its seminal work on combat survivability. On basis theory present...

— to identify and eliminate shortcomings in security and survivability engineering methods