Wichita State University

About: Wichita State University is a education organization based out in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 4988 authors who have published 9563 publications receiving 253824 citations. The organization is also known as: WSU & Fairmount College.

The consequences of antisocial behavior in older male siblings for younger brothers and sisters.

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The effects of carbon dioxide and temperature on microRNA expression in Arabidopsis development

Abstract: An increase in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and warmer temperatures can alter plant growth and development. Here the authors show that these conditions can also elicit significant changes in microRNAs expression, including some which might induce early flowering in Arabidopsis.

Energy-Aware Tag Anticollision Protocols for RFID Systems

Abstract: Energy consumption of portable RFID readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade many aspects of our lives Surprisingly, however, these systems are not energy-aware with the focus till date being on reducing the time to read all tags by the reader In this work, we consider the problem of tag arbitration in RFID systems with the aim of designing energy-aware anticollision protocols We explore the effectiveness of using multiple time slots per node of a binary search tree through three anticollision protocols We further develop an analytical framework to predict the performance of our protocols and enable protocol parameter selection We demonstrate that all three protocols provide significant energy savings both at the reader and tags (if they are active tags) compared to the existing Query Tree protocol, while sharing the deterministic property of the latter Further, we show that our protocols provide similar benefits even with correlated tag IDs

Indefinite and maybe information in relational databases

Abstract: This paper extends the relational model to represent indefinite and maybe kinds of incomplete information. A data structure, called an I-table, which is capable of representing indefinite and maybe facts, is introduced. The information content of I-tables is precisely defined, and an operator to remove redundant facts is presented. The relational algebra is then extended in a semantically correct way to operate on I-tables. Queries are posed in the same way as in conventional relational algebra; however, the user may now expect indefinite as well as maybe answers.