... percentages for each experiment, the orders of the simulated and physical experiments agree for the top three outcomes These are the most significant, since they account for over 95% of the outcomes For ... Natarajan introduced several formal paradigms for designing sensorless parts feeders [15] Erdmann, Mason, and Vanˇ cek developed a sensorless table-tilting planner for orieˇ enting three-dimensional ... for a number of discrete settings (through the use of thumb-type screws for making the adjustment) 3.3 Part Modelling We model the cylindrical sleeves as solid, many-faceted cylinders of uniform...
... receptors from two insect species for which relevant biochemical and in vivo information exists The comparative profiles demonstrate an approach for developing a screening system to identify and ... quantitative differences may prove importantfor in vivo functions In Manduca, the presence of a B-isoform increases transcriptional activity normally mediated by the A-isoform alone, heightening the ... equalized for gel loading on the basis of b-galactosidase reporter gene activity Densitometry readings for individual signals are adjusted relative to DmEcRB2 (equals 1.0) Immunoblots were also performed...
... filter) The amplifier gain was set at 1.00 for forward scattering; the detector voltage was set to E00 for forward scattering and 600 V for FL1, and the forward-scattering threshold was set at 52 ... pairs, it is not sufficient forscreeningfor affinity-enhanced variants from a pool of original interacting pairs, suggesting that another approach is required for efficient screening of affinity enhancement ... Fellowship for Young Scientists from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and in part by Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, Creation of Innovation Centers for...
... and performance measure (as illustrated in Figure P.2) For example, the physical layer is responsible for the reliable and efficient delivery of information bits The MAC layer is responsible for ... Multiplexing 154 4.2.3 Receiver Designsfor Layered Spacetime Codes 159 4.2.4 Optimal Architecture for Fast Flat Fading Channels 166 4.2.5 Optimal Architecture for Slow Flat Fading Channels 168 ... Scheduling Design for DS-CDMA/MISO and OFDMA/MISO Systems 397 10.3.1 Cross-Layer Design for DS-CDMA/MISO Systems 398 10.3.2 Cross-Layer Design for OFDMA/MISO Systems 398 10.4 Performance Comparisons...
... Communicating channels can deliver fluids for sterilising (with steam or ethylene oxide for example), for adjusting the moisture and oxygen content and for extracting the compound of interest after ... new processes are developed Finally, for some industrial applications (production of spores for cheese making for example), SSF constitutes the sole solution for a production process and now, more ... particles (clay granules as support for example), this agitation can also be abrasive and so be harmful for the mycelium especially if the hyphae have no septa For processes in which the substrate...
... presented by Yang for NA random variables and Wang et al for NOD random variables Using the exponential inequalities, we further study the complete convergence for acceptable random variables MSC(2000): ... corresponding results of Yang [9] for NA random variables and Wang et al [10] for NOD random variables In Section 3, we will study the complete convergence for acceptable random variables using the exponential ... [9, Lemma 3.5] for NA random variables and Wang et al [10, Theorem 2.3] for NOD random variables In the following, we will provide the Hoeffding-type inequality for acceptable random variables Theorem...
... corresponding results of Yang [9] for NA random variables and Wang et al [10] for NOD random variables In Section 3, we will study the complete convergence for acceptable random variables using the exponential ... Lemma 3.5] for NA random variables and Wang et al [10, Theorem 2.3] for NOD random variables In the following, we will provide the Hoeffding-type inequality for acceptable random variables Theorem ... random variables with EXi n i=1 = and EXi2 = σi2 < ∞ for each i ≥ Denote B2 = n σi2 for each n ≥ If there exists a positive number c such that |Xi| ≤ cBn for each ≤ i ≤ n, n ≥ 1, then for any...
... error performance in practice, it gives an SER lower bound for this channel For OFDM, by setting σs2 = Ppeak and assuming no clipping happens, Monte Carlo simulation gives the SER curve for this ... antenna diversity [10], for example, maximal ratio combining (MRC) and selective combining (SC) Before discussing the peak-power-limited case, we briefly review the MRC method for the linear SIMOOFDM ... decision s is obtained by hard decoding on s, denoted as s = s Therefore, for uncoded SIMO-OFDM, MRC is essentially the zero-forcing (ZF) and also the maximumlikelihood (ML) equalizer in the linear...
... transceiver designsfor multiuser MIMO downlink in the presence of imperfect CSIT We consider two widely used models for the CSIT error [21], and propose robust THP transceiver designs suitable for these ... transceiver design for SE model of CSIT error is presented in Section The proposed robust transceiver designsfor NBE model of CSIT error are presented in Section Simulation results and performance comparisons ... performance of the proposed robust THP transceiver algorithms, evaluated through simulations We compare the performance of the proposed robust designs with those of the nonrobust transceiver designs...
... partial channel information In state-of-the-art communications systems, these types of channel information become more and more important as we are interested in transmitting information to high-speed ... Therefore, the precoder structure can be written as W = ΦΣ1/2 Γ, (16) where Γ is an arbitrary unitary matrix that has no effect on the system performance, and therefore can be set to identity for ... channels, Ph.D thesis, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif, USA, May 2001 [7] A Scaglione, P Stoica, S Barbarossa, G B Giannakis, and H Sampath, “Optimal designsfor space-time linear precoders...
... the double lug designs were ranked highest, followed by the double tab designs with a central current collector The radial designs did not provide significant improvements but the designs were not ... shows that designs with double tabs are superior and, as above, radial designs were not especially beneficial Overall, these data showed that designs with opposed tabs had the best performance Following ... not optimised Sorting the results by j shows the best performance with tabs on opposite sides In this case the cells are optimised for uniform current distribution which in turn provides optimum...
... screws Although the applied incisal loading mimicked vertically deforming forces and molar loading mimicked torsionally deforming forces encountered under clinical circumstances, they cannot completely ... angle This osteotomy technique was first performed in 1955 [21] and published in English in 1957 [2] Figure Schematic of the three lateral osteotomy designsfor bilateral sagittal split osteotomy ... original OD method The Puricelli osteotomy is performed at a region further distal to the osteotomy in the OD method, performed nearer to the mental foramen They speculated that the size of the lever...
... may be importantfor accurate mapping resolutions However, efficiency of different designsfor fine-mapping have hardly been reported For coarse QTL mapping in outbred populations, half sib designs ... 500 generations (76%) For the same reason as in the bi-allelic case, the accuracy is slightly lower for higher values of MA (e.g 72% for MA = 1000; 72% for MA = 2000; 69% for MA = 4000) Compared ... in half sib designs, the accuracy in half sib designs is higher than that in full sib designs, especially when the number of families is low Half sib designs are frequently used for linkage mapping...
... 22 clones were partially sequenced and BLAST used to search for similar protein sequences in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) public database Of these, 19 corresponded ... the pCMVMyc vector (Clontech) for expression in 293T cells FACS analysis of GFP-expressing cells Click here data file The original data used to perform Additionalfor additional data file this ... the FACS service center at the Beckman Center, Stanford University, for their technical support, and Robert Lam and Shanmei Li at Panomics for their help This work was supported by NIH SBIR grant...
... intercrossing designs have been illustrated in figure for a given heritability of 0.1 DISCUSSION Derivations in the present paper have shown that the power of the kinds of designsfor detecting ... requirement will not be met for any size of family They suggested that the probability of zero contrast would be 0.90 for backcrosses and 0.3 Therefore, at least 22 and 34 fam0.94 for intercrosses when ... [1] for the intercrossing - Similarly, the following approximation backcrossing design: design and [1] can thus !, holds between sizes of subsibships for the which directly results in: therefore,...
... CD-like microfluidic platform For packaging microfluidic platforms, a new interstitial bonding technique has been developed, which bonds the polymer-based microfluidic platforms without introducing ... and John C Byrd for serving on my dissertation committee and for their invaluable comments and suggestions, to Paula and Stacy for proofreading all the manuscripts I submitted for publishing Thanks ... Leigh Edward for their endless help on the machining and other supporting efforts in my experimental work Last but not least, I want to thank my family for their love and dedications for encouraging...
... we obtain concentration bounds for sums of the form n i=1 f (Xi ), and more generally, of form n i=1 fi (Xi ), for a Markov chain X1 , , Xn We obtain that for a stationary and reversible ... REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 29 For a concise proof of this result Talagrand’s inequality for uniform permutations, see Section 8.2 of Ledoux (2001) Talagrand’s inequality for uniform permutations was ... sharpest t tail bound that we can expect is of the form exp − 2σ·n Therefore our bound is as essentially sharp for small values of t (except for the 0.8Var(f ) term, but typically this is much...
... stability, decoupling, performance and robustness Firstly, a simple necessary and sufficient condition for solvability of decoupling with internal stability for unity output feedback for non-singular plants ... for the design of multi-variable IMC system aiming at obtaining good loop performance and small loop couplings based on LMI optimization The decoupling design with performance constraint is formulated ... the performance and robustness requirements of control systems become more important to ensure strong competitiveness Thus, it is a strong need to look for new approaches to increase the performance...
... Table 3.3 Control performance comparison of two PI designs 42 Table 4.1 Control performance comparison of two PI designs 64 Table 5.1 Comparison of two proposed PID designsfor 71 polymerization ... design 59 Figure 4.7 Closed-loop responses of two PID designsfor -25% step 60 change in C Figure 4.8 Closed-loop responses of two PID designsfor +25% step 60 change in C Figure 4.9 Servo responses ... parameters 37 Figure 3.8 Closed-loop responses of two PID designsfor -25% step 37 change in C Figure 3.9 Closed-loop responses of two PID designsfor +25% step 38 change in C Figure 3.10 Servo responses...