Chemoreception of environmental stimuli is a major sensory system in small soil nematodes like C. elegans. As in other animals, chemoreception is mediated in C. elegans by members of the seven-transmembrane G-protein-coupled receptor class (7TM GPCRs). We summarize the many large putative chemoreceptor gene families, including the str family (which includes odr-10, the only receptor with an ide...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The initial efforts to standardize and facilitate searching of digital libraries date back to the 1970s, when the development of the Z39.50 protocol started. The Z39.50 protocol is an ANSI standard and defines how to search and retrieve items from a remote database catalog. The Z39.50 protocol was widely deployed within library environments, allowing users to perform searc...

In pursuit of Persian handwritten digit recognition, many machine learning techniques have been utilized. Mixture of experts (MOE) is one of the most popular and interesting combining methods which has great potential to improve performance in machine learning. In MOE, during a competitive learning process, the gating networks supervise dividing input space between experts and experts obtain sp...

The massive number of users has brought severe challenges in managing cloud data centers (CDCs) composed multi-core processor that host service providers. Guaranteeing the quality (QoS) multiple as well reducing operating costs CDCs are major problems need to be solved. To solve these problems, this paper establishes a cost model based on hosts CDCs, which comprehensively consider hosts’ energy...

Abstract Fuel electrode supported solid oxide cells (SOCs) have been developed on an industrial scale using the aqueous tape-casting technique. The NiO–yttria-stabilized zirconia Y 2 O 3 –ZrO (YSZ) fuel and YSZ electrolyte manufactured by multilayer co-laminated tape casting. Details of slurry formulations are described discussed. Two types were fabricated with different microstructures NiO–YSZ...

Preliminary notes This paper proposes new static resource utilization (SRU) approach by using the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) technique to enhance resource exploitation in Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) 802.16e. This approach not only efficiently enhances resource exploitation in the base station (BS) but also increases the data rate and number of served users. Thi...

The valence ionization potentials of seven additional members of a series of 2,4,5-trisubstituted amphetamines (1-phenyl-2-aminopropanes) were measured by UV photoelectron spectroscopy. These and previously published data provide experimental measures of the gross electron-donor ability of the aromatic rings of 23 amphetamines. Analogues bearing the 2,5-dimethoxy orientation were found to posse...

Optical phenomena such as fluorescence, phosphorescence, polarization, interference and non-linearity have been extensively used for biosensing applications. Optical waveguides (both planar and fiber-optic) are comprised of a material with high permittivity/high refractive index surrounded on all sides by materials with lower refractive indices, such as a substrate and the media to be sensed. T...

Guideline developed in collaboration with the American College of Radiology and the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound. The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) is a multidisciplinary association dedicated to advancing the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine through professional and public education, research, development of guidelines, and accreditation. To promo...