In wireless sensor networks, performing data aggregation while preserving data confidentiality is a challenging task. Recently, privacy homomorphism based secure data aggregation schemes have been proposed to achieve seamless integration of data confidentiality and aggregation. If sensor data are encrypted with different keys, however, these schemes do not allow hierarchical data aggregation, t...

Chronic adult periodontitis is a multifactorial disease. Early histopathological observations described linear model of pathogenesis in periodontal disease. After that the bacterial activation of immuno inflammatory mechanisms, environmental and genetic factors modified the clinical phenotype of periodontal disease which led to the formulation of non-linear conceptual models. However, these mod...

In Software Industry an application can be released to production only after it has gone through Unit testing, followed by Integration testing, then System testing and finally Acceptance testing. Note here that without the completion of unit testing, integration testing cannot be started and similarly without the completion of integration testing, system testing cannot be started and so on. Tha...

When producing a sentence, the speaker needs to place words in linear order. We hypothesized the existence of a linearizationprocess, which imposes order on a constituent structure. This structure is assumed to be speci® ed with respect to hierarchial relations between constituentsbut not with respect to word order.We tested this hypothesis in a primed picture description experiment. Speakers o...

Syntactic reordering has been demonstrated to be helpful and effective for handling different word orders between source and target languages in SMT. However, in terms of hierarchial PB-SMT (HPB), does the syntactic reordering still has a significant impact on its performance? This paper introduces a reordering approach which explores the { (DE) grammatical structure in Chinese. We employ the S...

AIMS To investigate the utility of an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), including descriptive norms and anticipated regret, in predicting binge-drinking intentions and behaviour. METHODS A total of 178 undergraduates completed a questionnaire containing measures of TPB variables, descriptive norms, anticipated regret, and previous binge-drinking behaviour. One week later, 104 studen...

Artificial neural network architectures are systems which usually exhibit a unique/special behavior on the basis of a fixed structure expressed in terms of parameters computed by a training phase. In contrast with this approach, we present a robotic scenario in which an artificial neural network architecture, the Multiple Behavior Network (MBN), is proposed as a robotic controller in a simulate...

The concept of Genealogical Sorting Indexes (GSIs) was first introduced by Cummings et al. [1]. Given a set of observations belonging to different groups (represented in the form of a hierarchial tree), the Genealogical Sorting Index (GSI) value obtained for a particular group provides a quantitative measure of how closely the observations belonging to this group have clustered in the given tre...

The aim of this paper is to categorize and present the existence of resources for Englishto-Urdu machine translation (MT) and to establish an empirical baseline for this task. By doing so, we hope to set up a common ground for MT research with Urdu to allow for a congruent progress in this field. We build baseline phrase-based MT (PBMT) and hierarchical MT systems and report the results on 3 of...

This experiment develops an integrative, path-analytic model for the endorsement accorded formal leaders. The model contains four independent variables reflecting aspects of group structure (i.e., group success-failure, the payoff distribution, the degree of support by others members for the leader, and the vulnerability of the leader). Also included are two intervening variables reflecting per...