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The effect of time and space on the biogenesis of mRNA is a matter of research interest because of reports on its potential to affect different biochemical processes. As described by Bentley(2014) and other researchers, along with co-transcriptional process, post-transcriptional events also happen quite frequently for which the splicing process is delayed and a chance of different mode of splicing...
Graduates are expected to be able to provide holistic solutions, capable of meeting diverse objectives simultaneously. Furthermore, opportunities are often “found” or “made.” The quality of solutions, however, is mediated by different conceptualizations of contexts. Thus, we aim to investigate how students would conceptualize, make sense, desire to know, find solutions and subsequently progress to...
Nowadays enormous amounts of energy are consumed by Cloud infrastructures and this trend is still growing. An existing solution to lower this consumption is to turn off as many servers as possible, but these solutions do not involve the user as a main lever to save energy. We introduce a system that proposes to the user to run her application with degraded performance. A user choosing an energy-efficient...
The German initiative Industry 4.0 will involve amongst other issues networking and integration of several different parties (e.g., manufacturing companies, suppliers, customers, sub-contractors) through value networks. This initiative underpins that this collaborative partnership will only be feasible if standardization and open standards are available. For this purpose a reference architecture is...
In the context of marketing, attribution is theprocess of quantifying the value of marketing activities relativeto the final outcome. It is a topic rapidly growing inimportance as acknowledged by the industry. However, despitenumerous tools and techniques designed for its measurement, the absence of a comprehensive assessment and classificationscheme persists. Thus, we aim to bridge this gap by providingan...
Smart City frameworks address new challenges to improve efficiency and sustainability of services for citizens, providing additional features and allowing the city environment to adaptively configure according to collected data and information. To this aim, Decision Support Systems, DSS, have recently been acquiring increasing importance in such a context. This paper presents a Smart Decision Support...
Applications that can use information obtained through device sensors to alter their behavior are called context-aware. Design and development of such applications is currently done by modeling the application's context or by using novel requirements engineering methods. If the application is to support the user's well-being, these methods fall short due to their technical focus. We propose a model-driven...
Innovation and ICT entrepreneurship are slowly being recognised as important enablers of socio-economic growth and realising national strategic goals in African Member States. However, the level of practical skills capacity, indigenous entrepreneurial expertise and policy support to take full advantage of this at national level varies considerably. This research study focused on identifying factors...
Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) is considered an effective approach for conducting simulation studies in many fields. In order to develop high quality simulation models, methodological approaches are demanded. In such direction we are moving by proposing a heuristic for the formalization of agent based simulation problems. The proposed heuristic is based on some guidelines developed for...
Our experience with email-based marketing campaigns (or short: “Microservices”) showed that they are an intersecting set of a) projects and processes and b) technology and creativity. Their properties of fixed due date, fixed scope and at the same time fixed duration render classical management methodologies unfeasible. The same applies to the supporting enterprise infrastructure architecture, where...
In Human Activity Recognition (HAR) supervised and semi-supervised training are important tools for devising parametric activity models. For the best modelling performance, typically large amounts of annotated sample data are required. Annotating often represents the bottleneck in the overall modelling process as it usually involves retrospective analysis of experimental ground truth, like video footage...
During recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the potential opportunities that can be attained with promoting Smart Cities; a concept that can be reached based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The Smart Cities concept is considered achievable by horizontal integration of a number of vertical industries in order to empower sustainability and improvements on quality...
In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, this pattern of activity plays out every day, especially in a connected world where products are no longer one-and-done. Making money is not anymore limited to physical product sales and other...
One of the most pressing challenges of healthcare innovation today is the lack of technology adoption. Research that improves our ability to understand, predict, and advance technology adoption in health care needs to be based on well-tested theories. With the interest to conduct high quality research in health technology adoption in future, this study reviews the theories used in this context to...
Developing tools to understand biomolecular systems is important both for the analysis of naturally occurring systems as well as for the design of new ones. However, there is a need to develop new tools suited for analysis of such systems and to adapt existing tools used in other similar contexts. Here, we apply the method of sinusoidal-input describing function for the analysis of such systems using...
Artificial Neural Networks are often used as black boxes to implement behavioral functions, developed by trials and errors, fed with sensory inputs and controlled by some criteria of performance. This is the case for pavlovian conditioning where important sensory information is non ambiguous and where the error of prediction is to be minimized. These past years, taking into account critical conditioning...
The paper analyses some continuous-time dynamic models that describe the evolution of social systems characterized by the possibility of changing the alliances among the parties involved or damaging one's competitors. At any time each participant, either an individual or a coalition, can decide to form or terminate a bond, or to start or stop damaging an opponent (i.e., to switch from a network configuration...
Threshold-based sampling schemes such send-on-delta, level-crossing with hysteresis and integrate-and-fire are studied as non-linear input-output systems that map Lipschitz continuous signals to event sequences with −1 and 1 entries. By arguing that stability requires an event sequence of alternating −1 and 1 entries to be close to the zero-sequence w.r.t. the given event metric, it is shown that...
Human remembering is a process vulnerable to producing errors in addition to unintentional forgetting which is often undesired. To support contextualised remembering and reminiscence we propose an application that is able to write diaries on demand. Without any considerable effort these diaries can be generated for every period of a person's life that is reflected in their personal information model...
This paper presents an enhanced simulation platform composed by the integration of two distinct multi-agent based simulators. The two simulators are: (i) the Multi-Agent Simulator of Competitive Electricity Markets (MASCEM), which provides a simulation platform for electricity markets participation, considering scenarios based on real data from several distinct market operators; and (ii) the Multi-Agent...
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