This paper explores the behavior of present-biased agents, that is, agents who erroneously anticipate the costs of future actions compared to their real costs. Specifically, we extend the original framework proposed by ...

We are living in the age of information where our lives are shaped by information and communication technologies. As a consequence, there is an explosion in the amount of generated data. Distribute storage systems (DSSs) ...

Translation initiation is often attributed as the rate-determining step of eukaryotic protein synthesis and key to gene expression control. Despite this centrality, the series of steps involved in this process is poorly ...

Developers writing software for a niche platform are denied the luxury of a first-class vendor-supported integrated development environment and a large community crafting platform-tailored libraries, tools, and documentation. ...

Recent advancements in virtual reality both on the hardware and software front have made high-quality virtual reality experiences both cheaper, and easier to obtain. This thesis aims to explore how virtual reality can be ...

Mass spectrometric analyses of peptides mainly rely on cleavage of proteins with proteases that have a defined specificity. The specificities of the proteases imply that there is not a random distribution of amino acids ...

Both interactive visualization and computational analysis methods are useful for data studies and an integration of both approaches is promising to successfully combine the benefits of both methodologies. In interactive ...

We introduce a physical approach to social networks (SNs) in which each actor is characterized by a yes–no test on a physical system. This allows us to consider SNs beyond those originated by interactions based on pre-existing ...