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of fade margins for soft and hard handoffs,” in Proceedings of
the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and
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... Huaming and T. Jindong, “An ultra-low-power medium
access control protocol for body sensor network,” in Pro-
ceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference of the
Engineering in Medicine and ... here of fixed length (i.e., independent of the
number of sensors in the BSN) and contains two
new fields for specific energy-saving purposes, the
modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and length of
the ... theoretical analysis for non-
saturation conditions and evaluate its performance in front
of 802.15.4 MAC and BSN-MAC in BSN scenarios, bearing
medical applications in mind. Please note that in order...
... Continuum Modeling
Carbon nanotubes observed in experiments [18] always
contain more than millions of atoms. Consequently, MD has
difficulties in studying the feasibility of the proposed NEMS
design ... on the top of the outer tube. Ini-
tially, the inner tube has a velocity of 400 m/s and is placed
at the center of the outer tube. In this case, the natural
oscillating frequency of the oscillator ... deformation of the
nanotube itself. The external nodal force, f
ext
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, contains two
parts. One is due to the interlayer interaction between the
inner tube and the outer tube, and the other is the induced
electromagnetic...
... informed watermarking; (ii) necessity
of obtaining the consensus of the inventors of the watermark-
ing systems to use it in the contest; (iii) necessity of using
a complete system, including the exploitation ... sensitivity analysisof watermarks us-
ing prior information,” in Security, Steganography, and Wa-
termar king of Multimedia Contents IX,E.J.DelpandP.W.
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of them are watermarked images that retained the watermark
even in the presence of a very strong attack (see [5] for an in-
teresting analysisof this aspect).
3. ANALYSISOF THE...
... degree in mecha-
tronics engineering (with honors) from Beijing In-
stitute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2002, and
the M.S. degree in electromechanical engineering
from the University of Macau, ... robot-assisted spine and trauma surgery was presented
in [10] utilizing a designed 6-DOF parallel manipulator. Train-
ing for opening and closing of the mouth for the rehabilitation
of patients with ... in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D.
degree from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in
1994, all in mechanical engineering.
He was with South China University of Technol-
ogy, the International...
... complaints of spinal and leg bone pain, was recognized as a type of chronic
toxicity induced by excess Cd contamination of drinking water and cereals (mainly
rice). Since then, the contamination ... differences in Cd dynamics in rice cultivars varying in grain Cd
concentrations.
Dynamic characterization of root Cd uptake and root-to-shoot translocation in
rice cultivars differing in grain Cd ... film of
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... modifying procedure Resolve accordingly and adding the rule for handling
the reception of the notification.
CONSTRUCTING A SPANNING TREE 65
same rule, obtain the same results (thus, continuing ... This
problem is called Minimum Finding (MinFind) and is the simplest among the class
of Distributed Query Processing problems that we will examine in later chapters: a
set of data (e.g., a file) ... discussed in Section 2.5.2. Let us examine its
execution in the simple network depicted in Figure 2.14 composed of a chain of four
nodes x,y,z, and w. Let y and z be both initiators, and start...
... Overlapping discovery of an internal link
In the merge-link calculation, when the Outside? message from a in A is sent to
neighbor b in B, if name(A) = name(B) then the link (a,b) is internal and ... property of the minimum-cost
spanning tree T .Afragment of T is a subtree of T .
Property 3.8.12 Let A be a fragment of T, and let e be the link of minimum value
among those connecting A to other ... where the sum
of the values of its link is as small as possible. For example, if the value of the link is
the cost of using it, a minimum-cost spanning tree is one where broadcasting would
be...
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n
to their final destinations. The
same example holds also in the case of compact sorting.
In the case of invariant sorting, surprisingly, the same lower bound ... answer to any expression composed of dif-
ferences and intersections, involving any number of sets, provided that D
i
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operand in the differences involving D
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. So for example, the query ... one clock tick.
The main advantage of doing this redefinition of unit of time is that it greatly
simplifies the designandanalysisof protocols for fully synchronous systems. In fact,
it is common...
... correctness.
Exercise 6.6.24 Minimum-Finding in Pipeline. Write a protocol for finding the
smallest value in a chain using the 2-bit communicator and pipeline. Prove its cor-
rectness. Determine its costs.
Exercise ... costs.
Exercise 6.6.25 Sum-Finding in Pipeline. Write a protocol for finding the sum
of all the values in a chain using the 2-bit communicator and pipeline. Prove its
correctness. Determine its costs.
Exercise ... Guessing
Guessing is a technique that allows some entities to determine a value not by trans-
mitting it but by guessing it. Again we will consider the minimum finding and election
problems in ring...
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[17] Ministry of Energy and Mining. Renewable Energy in Serbia. Ministry of Energy and Mining,
2009.
[18] Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. ... expert in the
fields of energy policy and modelling, development & administration of DSS andin lectures and seminars of the NTUA and the
Technical Chamber of Greece regarding energy policy and ... Republic of Serbia. Strategy of development of energy
industry of Republic of Serbia until 2015, draft report, 2005.
[6] EPS – Electric Power Industry of Serbia, Ministry of Energy and Mining of...
... that in software engineering literature, accountability is mainly
seen as a goal for ensuring the quality ofdesign processes. It is also part of a
‘business administrative terminology, implying ... Buckingham and Philadelphia.
Dittrich, Yvonne, Sara Eriksén and Christina Hansson (2002): PD in the Wild:
Evolving Practices ofDesignin Use. In PDC 02 Proceedings of the Participatory Design ... Communcations of the ACM (The Magazin for Association of Computing
Machinery), 2001, p.49.
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