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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...
Geeta Shroff, Matthew Kam
NOSSDAV
2011
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
The impact of inter-layer network coding on the relative performance of MRC/MDC WiFi media delivery
A primary challenge in multicasting video in a wireless LAN is to deal with the client diversity – clients may have different channel characteristics and hence receive different...
Rohan Gandhi, Meilin Yang, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas...
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Organizing and sharing distributed personal web-service data
The migration from desktop applications to Web-based services is scattering personal data across a myriad of Web sites, such as Google, Flickr, YouTube, and Amazon S3. This disper...
Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Cheung, Alexander Moshchuk...
DSRT
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Interfacing and Coordination for a DEVS Simulation Protocol Standard
The DEVS formalism has been adopted and developed independently by many research teams, which led to various DEVS implementation versions. Consequently, different DEVS implementat...
Khaldoon Al-Zoubi, Gabriel A. Wainer
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Evolutionary Sequence Modeling for Discovery of Peptide Hormones
There are currently a large number of ‘‘orphan’’ G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) whose endogenous ligands (peptide hormones) are unknown. Identification of these pepti...
M. Kemal Sönmez, Lawrence Toll, Nina Zaveri