As services steadily migrate to the Cloud, the availability of an overarching identity framework has become a stringent need. Moreover, such an identity framework is now critical in the Internet of Things. To address this problem, identification solutions have been proposed in the past leveraging software or hardware properties of devices. While those solutions proved feasible, their root of trust was based either within the device or in a remote server.

ThŒis paper is focused on the comparison of results obtained by the resolution of the capacitated vehicle routing problem. A modi€ed algorithm of classical arti€cial bee colony (ABC) is described and implemented in this article, in particular, a new type of neighborhood operator is introduced. Œe idea on the base of ABC is creating an algorithm of Swarm - Intelligence which mimics the behavior of a honey bee swarm.

We present a multi-layer mathematical model to describe the transdermal drug release from an iontophoretic system. The Nernst-Planck equation describes the basic convection-diffusion process, with the electric potential obtained by solving the Laplace's equation. These equations are complemented with suitable interface and boundary conditions in a multi-domain. The stability of the mathematical problem is discussed in different scenarios and a finite-difference method is used to solve the coupled system.

We investigate the effects of high solvated-methane concentration on methane-hydrate nucleation at 250 K and 500 atm. We consider solutions at four levels of methane molar fraction in the initial H2O-CH4 solution, ?CH4 = 0.038, 0.044, 0.052, and 0.058, which are higher than (metastable) bulk supersaturation. ?CH4 is controlled independently of the temperature and pressure thanks to the use of special simulation techniques [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011, 13, 13177].

The transcription factor CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) modulates pleiotropic functions mostly related to gene expression regulation. The role of CTCF in large scale genome organization is also well established. A unifying model to explain relationships among many CTCF-mediated activities involves direct or indirect interactions with numerous protein cofactors recruited to specific binding sites. The co-association of CTCF with other architectural proteins such as cohesin, chromodomain helicases, and BRG1, further supports the interplay between master regulators of mammalian genome folding.

This paper presents a methodology to generate maps of atmosphere's precipitable water vapor (PWV) over large areas with a length of hundreds of kilometers and a width of about 250 km, based on the use of interferometric Sentinel-1A/BC-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with a high spatial resolution of 5 x 20 m(2) and the revisiting time of six days. An algorithm to calibrate and merge PWV maps from different swaths of Sentinel-1 acquired along the same track, using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements, is described.

We study a variational problem for simultaneous video inpainting and motion estimation. We consider a functional proposed by Lauze and Nielsen [25] and we study, by means of the relaxation method of the Calculus of Variations, a slightly modified version of this functional. The domain of the relaxed functional is constituted of functions of bounded variation and we compute a representation formula of the relaxed functional. The representation formula shows the role of discontinuities of the various functions involved in the variational model.

This paper proposed improving the solve time of the bootstrap AMG proposed previously by the authors. This is achieved by incorporating the information, set of algebraically smooth vectors, generated by the bootstrap algorithm, in a single hierarchy by using sufficiently large aggregates, and these aggregates are compositions of aggregates already built throughout the bootstrap algorithm. The modified AMG method has comparable convergence properties to the original bootstrap one, however with better efficiency.