... was performed with a Cy3-labeled PAOMIX (PAO462, PAO651 and PAO846) and an FITC-labeled EUBMIX (EUB338, EUB338 II and EUB338 III) probe (Table 1) The targets of PAOMIX and EUBMIX probe are Candidatus ... extract and quantitative PCR was 1.0 % for Ct value and 11 % for the calculated copy numbers, respectively (n=6) Variation in quantitative PCR only was 0.78 % for Ct value and 7.5 % for the calculated ... conclusion, quantitative PCR for Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ is a highly sensitive and rapid tool forits quantification in activated sludge It would be suitable for routine monitoring or...
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... providing DV and DV K for both substrates as presented in Table The DV value for PTDH-E175A A176R was 2.21 0.03 with NAD and 1.7 0.1 with NADP Therefore, the hydride transfer step for the PTDHE175A ... regeneration enzyme forits cofactor substrate and product is an important parameter Therefore, the dissociation constants (KD) for the cofactor substrates and products were determined WT and PTDH-E175A ... relaxed cofactor specicity with a Km for NADP that is decreased over 700-fold compared with the WT enzyme (Table 1) and that displays high catalytic efciency with both NAD and NADP The resulting...
... Baseband OQAM transmitter From (45) and Figure we can see that OQAM signal is a special model with M-input x(t) transformed by LPTV transformation h(t) and one scalar output y(t) The baseband ... the aforementioned theoretical knowledge, Section analyzes and derives the theoretical formulas of nonconjugate and conjugate cyclic autocorrelation and spectral correlation functions of OFDM and ... for all α = and Rx (τ) = 0, then x(t) is / / x purely stationary If Rα (τ) = only for α = integer/T0 for / x some period T0 , then x(t) is purely cyclostationary with period T0 If Rα (τ) = for...
... Shannon’s information theory provides a suitable formalism for quantifying these concepts Assume a random variable X representing continuousvalued random feature vector, and a discrete-valued random ... ICA-based feature extraction for classifying the EEG patterns associated with the resting state and the imagined hand movements [9, 10] and demonstrated the improvement of the performance One of the most ... system converges with a near-optimal solution In this application, the genetic algorithm is run for 70 generations with population size of 20, crossover probability 0.8, and uniform mutation probability...
... system model and the information rate for OFDMA and SC-FDMA In Section we derive the SCFDMA rate result and provide its geometrical interpretation assuming equal power allocation without joint ... (bits/s/Hz) Average spectral efficiency (bits/s/Hz) 12 100 10−1 Number of users in the system Figure 4: Comparison of the achievable information rate between OFDMA and SC-FDMA for different bandwidths ... algorithm takes place andits decision is then sent to the users via a signalling channel in the downlink For simplicity, we start with the single-user single-input single-output system and then extend...
... matrix U and Q×L matrix V consist of left and right singular vectors, respectively U p (V p ) and Ur (Vr ) are the left and right submatrices of U(V), associated with the p principal and the remaining ... The performance can act as a basis for evaluating the performance loss in many applications of RIPC algorithms Simulation results of the joint synchronization and channel identification for UWB ... singular values and vectors reflect the information of the frequencies with largest power This intuitively explains why the p generalized eigenvalues are associated with the p frequencies with largest...
... comprehensive framework for H Moon and R Chellappa tracking using 3D deformable model and optical flow computation using 3D shape constraints, and presents an application to face tracking Reference ... local maximum and wander around looking for a better value This stabilizing characteristic is observed in experiments, and will be explained in a later section An alternative way of handling the ... vector and propagate them with model and pose parameters We found that estimating the dynamic parameters using the prior estimates of the states gives much better performance, in the applications...
... αk,m accounts for the overall effects of phase shifts and fading for the mth carrier of the kth user, Pk and τk ∈ [0, T) represent the power for each carrier of the transmitted signal and the delay ... symbol interval, and ψ(t) is the common chip waveform for all signals We assume that the chip waveform ψ(t) is bandlimited, such as the square-root raised-cosine ∞ pulse [17], and normalized so ... DS-CDMA, and perform numerical simulation to investigate its performance For each run, the proposed algorithm in this paper, the direct eigendecomposition method, the TTJ algorithm [15], and sample...
... error rate (BER) withand without dominant path delay estimate compensation The EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Table 2: Detection performance withand without preadvancement ... compensation SUI 1, with compensation SUI 2, without compensation SUI 2, with compensation SUI 3, without compensation SUI 3, with compensation Figure 3: BER versus received SNR, withand without dominant ... SUI 2, with compensation SUI 3, without compensation SUI 3, with compensation Figure 2: BER versus received SNR, withand without dominant path delay estimate compensation, in SUI channels with...
... techniques for mapping test data to this space are used: direct, iterative, and iterative2 Regarding NMF, matrices W and H are initialized with random numbers uniformly distributed between and when ... the state of the random number generator, but also on a classifier andits parameters Because of its straightforward implementation, NMF has been applied to solve many tasks: information retrieval ... associated with the class whose hyperplane is closest to x HKNN needs to predefine two parameters, k and λ (regularization) Their values are andfor k and 8, 10, 12, 20, 30, 40, 50 for λ (hence...
... bits and the frame length is 148, as established in the GSM standard There is a significant difference in the estimation error between using M = bits and M = bits, whereas the gap between M = and ... also plotted for comparison As it is shown in Figure 7, the proposed method (ML-EM) with M = bits performs better than the LS with M = 26 bits beyond the sixth iteration, achieving a performance ... results obtained with the proposed estimator using a training sequence of M = bits and those obtained with classical LS using a training sequence of M = 26 bits (the length standardized in GSM)...
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... Science and Technology; and as Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, Lac Hong University His main research interests are High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, Bioinformatics, ... has many applications is deployed However there are still many open issues This paper gives a simple model to apply for detection quickly and accurately the faces and facial components Form that ... at Institute of Information Technology, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology and as Dean of Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication...
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