Conformational transitions of proteins play a crucial role in many biochemical and biophysical reactions. Understanding the conformational changes of a protein upon adsorption to a substrate is very important in biotechnology, e.g. the development of modern protein chip technology, biocompatibility of implants, and many other ones. This research program used cytochrome c, an electron carrier in the respiratory chain, as a model to probe how surface adsorption affects the folding of a protein. My work investigates the interaction of protein horse heart cytochrome c when it is...

This work develops an adaptive scheduling algorithm for real-time energy harvesting embedded systems. The algorithm considers both energy and timing constraint of the energy harvesting systems unlike most of the scheduling algorithms. An AFP prediction algorithm was also proposed for a better energy prediction for each slot. Based on this information the initial scheduling, which was designed using the information given by EWMA prediction algorithm, was rescheduled. The purpose was successfully achieved by compensating the extra/less energy harvested from the environment in such a way so that...

The objective of this SpringerBrief is to present security architectures and incentive mechanisms to realize system availability for D2D communications. D2D communications enable devices to communicate directly, improving resource utilization, enhancing user's throughput, extending battery lifetime, etc. However, due to the open nature of D2D communications, there are two substantial technical challenges when applied to large-scale applications, that is, security and availability which is demonstrated in this book.

This SpringerBrief proposes a secure data sharing protocol, which merges...

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions. As a new research domain of Digital Earth, it covers the latest scientific and technical advances, from the acquisition and integration of observational data, ocean spatio-temporal analysis and coastal flood forecasting to frequency modeling and the development of technical platforms. The individual chapters will be of interest to specialists in oceanic and coastal monitoring and management who deal with...