... dynamical shape priors, represented using level sets, provide strong constraints for segmenting/tracking deformable shapes under severe noise and occlusions Shape constraints provide tighter constraints ... one-dimensional smoothing operator, designed to minimize the sum of noise response power and step edge response error, was shown to be gσ (s) = (1/σ) exp(− |s| /σ) Then the shape operator for an arbitrary shape ... computation This term forces the state to be updated so that the prediction error with respect to these parameters is minimized The proposed random search is closely analogous to this scheme in that...
... ways teachers assist students to solve problems in different levels: + Teacher prepares and shows footages, videos to learners + Teacher compiles documentation for learners to study by themselves ... processing, analysis results to assess the feasibility of the proposal 18 3.1.3 Methods of testing To test reviews, the authors use pedagogical experimential methods and expert methods to improve ... value d Testing and assessment The evaluation is to assess students according to ability (The conclusion of the assessment confirms whether a learner is competent or incompetent It is only when...
... phosphatis’ is a highly sensitive and rapid tool forits quantification in activated sludge It would be suitable for routine monitoring or measurement of a large number of samples, and lead to ... phosphatis’ in activated sludge samples was quantified using the quantitative PCR and the FISH methods respectively The protocol for the quantitative PCR method is as described in the previous section ... PCR method These results were compared with quantification results by those obtained by FISH MATERIALS AND METHODS Activated sludge samples For quantification, activated sludge samples were collected...
... characteristics become available Investigators will ods for biospecimen collection, storage, analysis be able to use these notification services to send and cataloguing This limits researchers’ ability to ... There is no widely-used system that allows investigators to access information from EHRs for research purposes, while also protecting sensitive patient information 20 Accelerating Progress Against ... results This more robust database will enable investigators to build on results of A SCO s Blueprint for Transforming Clinical and Translational Research 17 industry to convene stakeholders in...
... Ireland (SFI) Investigator Grant (05/IN.3/13859) to MMC The authors wish to thank Maria de Sousa and Sergio de Almeida for useful discussions References Fleming RE, Britton RS, Waheed A, Sly WS ... Previous studies have demonstrated that HFE undergoes post-translational N-glycosylation As a first step towards assessing the importance of N-glycosylation on HFE expression, we transiently transfected ... has N-glycosylation sites at residues Asn251, Asn317 and Asn727 Mutation of Asn727 decreases cell-surface expression, whereas mutation at the other two sites does not [42] HFE becomes glycosylated...
... matrix SS There are various strategies for the conversion In this paper, ss(i,j) is set to when s( i, j) > 0.18, and any node can follow at most k/2 nodes, in this case two nodes Figure shows a result ... contains two sub-threads One concern requests by other countries for France to reconsider its stated intension of restarting nuclear testing, and the other concerns responses by other countries to the ... articles from Web sites and threader makes threads for them The results are stored in XML, and then pushed to subscribers who can capture the flow of topics by following the threads In another scenario,...
... especially the case because, as discussed below, trends such as increasing female headship and smaller family size are likely to place increasing pressure on girls to curtail their schooling to ... attempts been made to bring information on costs and benefits together to calculate either cost effectiveness (which links outcomes to program costs) or cost benefit (which compares these outcomes ... Research is also needed on the demand for these services andfor specific characteristics of providers This is especially the case where some level of contributions by parents will be necessary...
... chunks from the 1st step and M is the size of the tagging set M is usually large, e.g., about 400 in Chinese and 50 in Japanese, and it is impossible to list all the candidates Our analysis shows ... of possible segmentations is 2N , where N is the length of the source word and is the size of the tagging set In the conversion step, the number of possible candi′ dates is M N , where N ′ is the ... pre-defined assumption, and it is a no-loss fast decoding algorithm Rapid development of a JSCM system The JSCM represents how the source words and target names are generated simultaneously (Li et...
... marsh collapse threshold Less Optimistic Scenario This scenario assumes less advantageous trends in the same factors described for the moderate scenario above Model Description and Assumptions ... conversion of coastal land and associated habitats to open water and a loss of important services provided by such ecosystems The State of Louisiana, through its Coastal Protectionand Restoration ... reduction and coastal restoration is called an objective function Each alternative also satisfies a series of constraints These constraints take several forms Some constraints ensure that the costs of...
... forces and committees at the district, system, or campus level; increased responsibilities; paid release time for outside assignments, including grant preparation tasks; access and support for special ... energies must be focused on the delivery of services and programs designed to transform this mission into realistic goals and objectives Regardless of an organization s size or complexity, the mission ... to students’ academic and personal successes frequently drives them to investigate the grant-making process This interest may begin during professional development sessions, conferences, or sitebased...
... purchases In essence, this is a value-added tax (VAT) that would be passed on to consumers.4 • Not only would corporate taxes fall dramatically, but the profits passed on toownersand shareholders ... rates, predatory insurance practices, and poor health outcomes The solution to these problems is reforming the provision of care and improving access to quality health care, not shifting costs and ... Privatizing Social Security for wealthy Americans and ending Social Security s role as universal social insurance with benefits tied to lifetime earnings The Ryan Roadmap raises taxes on Americans making...
... classifier is designed The final decision is made on the results of the individual classifiers From 280 data sets, 140 sets are assigned for training of each classifier, while the rest is kept aside ... density functions (pdfs) of the data and the integration on these pdfs One of the most popular ways to estimate mutual information for low-dimensional data space is to use histograms as a pdf estimator ... years, several extensions to the basic formulation of LDA have been proposed [4, 5] Recently, a method based on discriminant analysis (DA) was proposed, known as subclass discriminant analysis (SDA),...
... Laboratory of Network Communication System and Control His research interests include stochastic control systems, discrete-event dynamic systems, network performance analysis and optimization, and ... degrades rapidly This is not surprising because at each step the TTJ algorithm uses a single instantaneous sample to update the weight vector, and as a result, the estimated weight vector oscillates ... asymptotically converge to the stable solution γu1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to express their sincerest appreciation to the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions...
... Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems, IEEE Std 802.16, 2004 [2] M Speth, S A Fechtel, G Fock, and H Meyr, “Optimum receiver design for wireless broadband systems using OFDM— ... synchronization scheme for OFDM systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS ’05), pp 2627–2630, Kobe, Japan, May 2005 S B Weinstein and P M Ebert, “Data transmission ... offset estimate (frequency offset = 10.5) very close to the true value for SNRs beyond dB in AWGN and SUI-1 channels, andfor SNRs beyond 10 dB in SUI-2 and SUI-3 channels For the realizations...
... use simulations to illustrate the usefulness of the method and also to support our assertions The rest of the paper is organized as follows Section gives briefly the background of the frame synchronization ... several visiting appointments with the Stanford University and the University of Iowa His areas of research have been adaptive and sensor array signal processing, and during the last 10 years ... proposed method to downlink synchronization in WMAN-OFDM and presented some simulation results to demonstrate its utility ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Ch Nanda Kishore would like to thank S Rama Rao, Vice President...
... long training sequence is necessary if classical estimation techniques, such as least squares (LS), are used Employing more refined channel estimators, such as the one presented in this paper, we ... matched-filtering and symbol-rate sampling can be used to obtain a set of sufficient statistics for the detection of the transmitted symbols Using vector notation, this set of statistics will be grouped in vectors ... is less than the ca- CONCLUSIONS In this paper, we propose a novel ML-based time-dispersive MIMO channel estimator for STC systems that employ ML Turbo Iterative Channel Estimation for STC Systems...
... forces and committees at the district, system, or campus level; increased responsibilities; paid release time for outside assignments, including grant preparation tasks; access and support for special ... energies must be focused on the delivery of services and programs designed to transform this mission into realistic goals and objectives Regardless of an organization s size or complexity, the mission ... to students’ academic and personal successes frequently drives them to investigate the grant-making process This interest may begin during professional development sessions, conferences, or sitebased...
... This theorem is best possible in the following sense: any oriented graph G contains a subgraph without oriented cycles and with at least a half of its arcs, as may be seen by taking a random ... pairwise disjoint transversals In other words, this version of the conjecture states that if is the oriented girth of G then is the largest k ∈ Æ for which there exists a k-colouring of E(G), say ϕ ... oriented girth is larger than the maximum cardinality of a family of pairwise disjoint transversals This note is organized as follows In the next section we shall describe the tools we need to prove...
... the photosynthesis process and in responses to biotic stresses For instance, marker AHBGSD1002H08 (LG B8) showed similarity to a tissue specific gene coding for a prolin-rich protein of soybean ... using BlastX analyses [61] From these, 12 sequences had no SSR repeats, but were used for primer design to develop STS (Sequence tagged sites) markers Primers were also designed for an EST of unknown ... distribution and sexual compatibility [3,4] The Arachis section includes the species that can be crossed to A hypogaea and encompasses 29 diploid speciesand the tetraploid species A hypogaea and A...
... fluorescent reporter and HIV-1 expression assays Ten of these (shRNAs #0 - 9) were selected for assembly into 26 multiple shRNA combinations from to shRNAs using a repeated expression cassette strategy ... domains [10,20-23] The multiple expression cassette strategy is perhaps the most useful method for immediate use due toits ease of design, assembly, and direct compatibility with pre-existing ... active shRNA This strategy has been used successfully in transient expression studies with cassette combinations ranging from to [5,18,19,24,25] To date, there have been limited in silico studies...