Current wireless MAC protocols are designed to provide an equal share of throughput to all nodes in the network. However, the presence of misbehaving nodes (selfish nodes that deviate from standard protocol behavior in ...

Background: Maggot therapy utilizes freshly emerged, sterile larvae of the common greenbottle fly, Phaenicia (Lucilia) sericata which secrete digestive enzymes that selectively dissolve necrotic tissue, disinfect the ...

In this dissertation, the problem of using accelerated degradation testing data for reliability estimation is studied and demonstrated. Simulation and analytical approaches have been investigated. By simulation which ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the US. COPD is a multi-factorial disorder characterized by an oxidant/antioxidant imbalance, inflammation, a protease/antiprotease ...

We are presenting a new approach for mapping a continuous time controller to a discrete time controller. Methods traditionally used for this mapping include forward rectangular rule, bilinear rule and zero-pole matching. ...

As part of a larger study, two low-risk primigravida (first pregnancy) women who intended to breastfeed and their newborns were audio- and videotaped in the first two hours after delivery. Recordings were analyzed to ...

As mobile hand-held devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants are battery operated, it is important to minimize their energy consumption. The limited lifetime of the battery is always a problem for all ...

Anonymity systems are designed in a way that hides the level of communication between senders and receivers of a message, and the goal of an attacker is to find that communication pattern. It is usually very difficult to ...