Blockchain technology has been extensively tested, implemented, used, or even abandoned by organizations. Whether organizations adopt blockchain depends on many factors. Previous literature identified a range of potential factors affecting the adoption technology, but most studies have focused solely subset specific As result, these can provide only limited explanations for varying degrees adop...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Harri Mökkönen Name of the doctoral dissertation Escape Rates of Externally Confined Polymers: Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Applied Physics Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 143/2016 Field of research Theoretical and computational physics Manuscript submitted 17 May 2016 Date o...

In the present study, we test the theory that humans selectively encode incoming sensory information on an as-necessary basis, when the information would not be accessible otherwise, in order to compensate for cognitive limitations on the quantity of new information that they can encode. We investigate whether external informational sources—much like high-level knowledge obtained from previous ...

For successful performance of phonosurgery, it is most important to maintain the flexibility of the vocal fold. Unfortunately, however, there has been no direct effective method so far for assessing the flexibility of the vocal fold membrane. If the vocal fold surface showed any abnormal region where good vibration could not be observed, reduced flexibility was expected in this area. Hitherto, ...

1 Staff Engineer, Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development, National Research Council—National Academy of Sciences. This paper is a revision of Report E-4, which was prepared on behalf of the Subcommittee on Evaluation, CPRD. The study was supported by Contract SRS-71-8 between the Social and Rehabilitation Service and the National Academy of Sciences. During the past few years, severa...

The current paradigm for tuning synthetic biological systems is through re-engineering system components. Biological systems designed with the inherent ability to be tuned by external stimuli will be more versatile. We engineered Escherichia coli cells to behave as an externally tunable band-pass filter for enzyme activity and small molecules. The band's location can be positioned within a rang...

With the advent of the Internet, access to database servers from autonomous clients will become more and more popular. In this paper, we propose a monitoring service that could be offered by such database servers, and present algorithms for its implementation. In contrast to published view maintenance algorithms, we do not assume that the server has access to the original materialization when c...