Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) is a novel technology that has recently emerged and due to its swift changing topology and high mobility nature, it has become problematic to design an efficient routing protocol in VANETs’ amongst both moving and stationary units. Also, the existing routing algorithms are not very effective to satisfy all requirements of VANETs. This paper explores the need o...

Distributions of the gluonic field and potential of three static sources are calculated in the framework of bilocal approximation of method of field correlators. The field in baryon is shown to be a sum of the fields of three mesonic strings, with the string junction and corresponding quarks acting like sources. The interference of fields of these mesonic strings near string junction position l...

The breakpoints of the recurrent t(11;22)(q23;q11) have recently been cloned. We identified palindromic AT-rich repeats (PATRRs) on 11q23 and 22q11 as the mechanism responsible for the rearrangement. Contradictory to our results, A.S. Hill et al. (Hum. Mol. Genet., 9, 1525-1532) suggested that Alu-mediated recombination is responsible. To clarify this discrepancy, the cloned 4.5 kb der(11) junc...

The gap junction connecting cardiac myocytes is voltage and time dependent. This simulation study investigated the effects of dynamic gap junctions on both the shape and conduction velocity of a propagating action potential. The dynamic gap junction model is based on that described by Vogel and Weingart (J. Physiol. (Lond.). 1998, 510:177-189) for the voltage- and time-dependent conductance cha...

We investigated whether the same principles that influence grouping in static displays also influence grouping in apparent motion. Using the Ternus display, we found that the proportion of group motion reports was influenced by changes in contrast configuration. Subjects made judgments of completion of these same configurations in a static display. Generally, contrast configurations that induce...

We develop a theory for the quantum circuit consisting of a superconducting loop interrupted by four Josephson junctions and pierced by a magnetic flux (either static or time-dependent). In addition to the similarity with the typical three-junction flux qubit in the double-well regime, we demonstrate the difference of the four-junction circuit from its three-junction analogue, including its adv...

We present a molecular dynamics simulation study of the migration of individual grain boundary triple junctions. The simulation cell was designed to achieve steady state migration. Observations of the triple junction angle and grain boundary profiles confirm that steady state was achieved. The static, equilibrium grain boundary triple junction angles and the dynamic triple junction angles were ...

BACKGROUND Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by defective activity of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase enzyme complex. Early diagnosis and management of MSUD are imperative for preventing permanent neurological impairments. In the Philippines, a 4.7 kb deletion in the dihydrolipoamide branched-chain transacylase E2 (DBT) gene has been comm...