We consider a wireless system consisting of a wireless wide area network (WAN) that cooperates with a set of wireless local network (WLAN) access points to serve a spatially distributed customer base. We assume that WAN and WLAN utilize orthogonal, i.e. non-interfering technologies, and that users’ devices are equipped with dual-mode interfaces which enable them to communicate with both the WAN...

BH3-only proteins to kill neuroblastoma cells Sue Mian Then1, Jen Kit Tan2, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd. Rahman3, Musalmah Mazlan4, Rahman Jamal2 and Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah2,5 1University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih, Malaysia 2UMBI, UKM, Cheras, Malaysia 3Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM Serdang, Malaysia 4Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh, Malaysia 5UKM KL Campus, Kuala Lumpur, Mal...

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) landscape is expanding with new radio technologies. In addition to the Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (LR-WPAN), the recent set of technologies conforming the so-called Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LP-WAN) offers long-range communications, allowing one to send small pieces of information at a reduced energy cost, which promotes the creation of new IoT appl...

Cheung Sha Wan Dermatology Clinic, 3/F West Kowloon Health Centre, 303 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong A 10-year-old girl had persistent asymptomatic erythematous plaques over both ankles for two years. Routine blood tests and fungal-related investigations were unremarkable. Clinical and histopathological findings suggested diagnosis of Interstitial Granulomatous Dermatitis (IGD) − a re...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.04.008 0957-4174/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 514 848 2424x5382; fax: +1 514 848 3171. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Sultan), bentahar@encs. concordia.ca (J. Bentahar), [email protected] (W. Wan), f_alsaqq@encs. concordia.ca (F. Al-Saqqar). Khalid Sultan, Jamal Bentahar ⇑, Wei Wan, Faisal...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Tai...

Large scale Online Social Networks (OSNs) like Facebook and Twitter are hosted out of multiple geo-diverse data centers to provide low latency and high fault tolerance. Such geo-diversity creates large amounts of WAN traffic for maintaining the consistency of replicas at different locations. Despite the dropping price of WAN bandwidth, the growth rate of OSNs combined with the incorporation of ...

Geographically distributed (geo-distributed) datacenters for stream data processing typically comprise multiple edges and core connected through Wide-Area Network (WAN) with a master node responsible allocating tasks to worker nodes. Since WAN links significantly impact the performance of task execution, existing assignment approach is unsuitable low latency high throughput demand. In this pape...