The effects of different pharmacological agents and incubation media on the intracellular pH and water content of Amphiuma erythrocytes were investigated in vitro. Adrenaline had no significant effect on the intracellular pH or cell water content. DIDS caused an intracellular alkalinization that could be abolished by amiloride, ouabain or removal of sodium from the incubation medium. In additio...

I-DIDs suffer disproportionately from the curse of dimensionality dominated by the exponential growth in the number of models over time. Previous methods for scaling I-DIDs identify notions of equivalence between models, such as behavioral equivalence (BE). But, this requires that the models be solved first. Also, model space compression across agents has not been previously investigated. We pr...

In Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems (DIDS) data is collected from various sources, correlated, and used to determine if systems are under attack or have been compromised. The use of DIDS allows for increased security as there is a broader view of incidents transpiring across the entire network. With data coming from different sources, the problem of correlating and analyzing such large a...

In the new interconnected world, we need to secure vehicular cyber-physical systems (VCPS) using sophisticated intrusion detection systems. In this article, we present a novel distributed intrusion detection system (DIDS) designed for a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). By combining static and dynamic detection agents, that can be mounted on central vehicles, and a control center where the alar...

Interactive dynamic influence diagrams (I-DIDs) are graphical models for sequential decision making in uncertain settings shared by other agents. Algorithms for solving I-DIDs face the challenge of an exponentially growing space of candidate models ascribed to other agents, over time. We formalize the concept of a minimal model set, which facilitates qualitative comparisons between different ap...

PURPOSE To characterize the biophysical, pharmacologic, and functional properties of the Ca(2+)-activated Cl(-) current in retinal arteriolar myocytes. METHODS Whole-cell perforated patch-clamp recordings were made from myocytes within intact isolated arteriolar segments. Arteriolar tone was assessed using pressure myography. RESULTS Depolarizing of voltage steps to -40 mV and greater activ...