The reload cost refers to the cost that occurs along a path on an edge-colored graph when it traverses an internal vertex between two edges of different colors. Galbiati et al. [1] introduced the Minimum Reload Cost Cycle Cover problem, which is to find a set of vertex-disjoint cycles spanning all vertices with minimum reload cost. They proved that this problem is strongly NP-hard and not appro...

Field tests for antixenosis and tolerance of cocoa tree to damage by mirids were conducted on ten cocoa genotypes in an experimental plot on a research station in Cameroon. Sahlbergella singularis nymph was starved overnight and confined on a flush, in a nylon mesh sleeve cage and allowed to feed on the plant for 24 hours. Antixenosis was assessed by counting the number of feeding points on the...

BACKGROUND Microvascular obstruction seems to predict poor outcome in patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but the underlying mechanism is still unclear. We analyzed whether serum thromboxane B2, a stable metabolite of thromboxane A2, may be implicated in post-PCI microvascular obstruction. METHODS AND RESULTS We enrolled 91 patients (74 males, 66±10 years) o...

This paper deals with problems on non-oriented edge-colored graphs. The aim is to find a route between two given vertices s and t. This route can be a walk, a trail or a path. Each time a vertex is crossed by a walk there is an associated non-negative reload cost ri,j , where i and j denote, respectively, the colors of successive edges in this walk. The goal is to find a route whose total reloa...

In this article, we propose a new architecture for wide area sensor and actuator networking. The architecture is based on combining two protocols being standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). To integrate CoAP and RELOAD, we introduce a CoAP application usage for RELOAD. The architecture provides ...

The reload provision in an employee stock option is an option enhancement that allows the employee to pay the strike upon exercising the stock option using his owned stocks and to receive new “reload” stock options. The usual Black-Scholes risk neutral valuation approach may not be appropriate to be adopted as the pricing vehicle for employee stock options, due to the non-transferability of the...

BACKGROUND Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) unloads the heart, providing a bridge to recovery in children after myocardial stunning. ECMO also induces stress which can adversely affect the ability to reload or wean the heart from the circuit. Metabolic impairments induced by altered loading and/or stress conditions may impact weaning. However, cardiac substrate and amino acid requirem...

This paper deals with problems on non-oriented edge-colored graphs. The aim is to find a route between two given vertices s and t. This route can be a walk, a trail or a path. Each time a vertex is crossed by a walk there is an associated non-negative reload cost ri,j , where i and j denote, respectively, the colors of successive edges in this walk. The goal is to find a route whose total reloa...

This paper analyzes the data integrity of one of the most widely used lossless data compression techniques, Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression. In this algorithm, because the data reconstruction from compressed codewords relies on previously decoded results, a transient error during compression may propagate to the decoder and cause a significant corruption in the reconstructed data. To recover the sy...