... finding their N best matches in the frame F (t − 2) We continue the motion estimation this way until the end of the buffer is reached This way, by only taking into account the areas that contain the ... (13) Therefore, each of the motion hypotheses for the block in the central frame is assigned a reliability measure, which depends onthe compensation error and the similarity of the current motion ... distance to the local estimate of the noise at the current location in the depth sequence and the motion reliability The noise standard deviation in the luminance image is constant for the whole...
... make choices are contingent onthe decision context Specifically, their findings suggested respondents processed the information in the form in which it was provided Consequently, the ease with which ... product list design (ascending list, descending list, and random list) influence consumers’ perceptions on product quality and price importance as well as their consideration set formation Specifically, ... al 1999) One revolutionary power of the online environment is that the display of information is very malleable, and under the control of the seller, buyer, or both (West et al 1999) There are...
... that the univariate Korobov function is related to the one-periodic extension of Bernoulli ¯n polynomials Specifically, if we denote the one-periodic extension of the Bernoulli polynomial as B then ... representation However, no information is provided about the degree of approximation This unresolved question is the main motivation of this paper and we begin to address it in the context of the Korobov ... bound, we construct approximation methods based on sparse Smolyak grids Although these grids have a significantly smaller number of points than the corresponding tensor product grids, the error...
... provide the underpinning information that the proceeding chapters build onThe second section, “basic services”, contains the chapters that describe Grid security and monitoring Both these chapters ... about the core technologies that make up theGrid today The material being developed for the companion Web site will supplement the book’s content We intend that the book, along with Web content, ... Services Grid Security Grid Monitoring Job Management and User Interaction Grid Scheduling and Resource Management Workflow Management for theGridGrid Portals Applications Grid Applications –...
... GFD.20 (GridFTP: 1.4 THE ARCHITECTURE OF THEGRID Protocol Extensions to FTP for the Grid) and GFD.23 (A Hierarchy of Network Performance Characteristics for Grid Applications and Services) There ... standards For theGrid community, the most important standards organizations are the Global Grid Forum (GGF) [10], which is the primary standards setting organization for the Grid, and OASIS [11], ... computation and collaboration TheGrid also involves dynamic, multi-institutional Virtual Organizations (VOs), where these new communities overlay classical organization structures, and these virtual...
... shared with other users During execution, the components initiate and monitor the operations performed in the backend execution environment The operations are performed in terms of the defined data-flow ... transition conditions, connections among processes (e.g parent/child relationships) and performance 308 WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT FOR THEGRID metrics The WfMC defines two types of data relevant to the control ... improves the representation of conditional and loop control constructs Currently WSFL can handle if-then-else, switch and do-while constructs and permits only one service within each conditional...
... provide the underpinning information that the proceeding chapters build onThe second section, “basic services”, contains the chapters that describe Grid security and monitoring Both these chapters ... with the content more easily The first section, “system infrastructure”, contains the chapters that discuss and outline the current architecture, services and instantiations of theGrid These ... Services Grid Security Grid Monitoring Job Management and User Interaction Grid Scheduling and Resource Management Workflow Management for theGridGrid Portals Applications Grid Applications –...
... n Onthe basis of the information in the graph above, if the Rutherford family spends $825 per year on education, how much they spend on electricity? (When gridding, disregard the $ sign) The ... the number on one side and the number onthe other What is the probability of receiving an odd number onthe second toss? The probability every single toss is ½ for and ½ for Therefore the probability ... In the figure above, B is the center of the circle and A is the center of the square If the radius of the circle is , what is the area of the square? The radius of the circle is actually half the...
... reach a conclusion As the black athletes were forced to watch their team from the grandstands for the remainder of the season, National Guard troops were stationed below the stands and the town ... the lists of AllAmerican selections that are now pouring out of all sections of the country,” wrote Cohen “We don’t care what they with any other ball player in the nation—but we don’t like the ... discrimination.45 The Bruin football team also received marked attention throughout the nation As a sophomore in 1937, Washington launched what was then considered the longest forward pass in the game’s...
... the aging U.S electricity grid into the information age GridWise is a vision, a concept, and a national initiative developed by the U.S Department of Energy (DOE), the Pacific Northwest National ... GridWise addresses transmission congestion issues onthe demand side through demand response and controllable load GridWise-enabled distributed controls and improved diagnostic tools within the ... 2001 36 The 2002 National Transmission Grid Study (DOE, 2002) discusses congestion problems facing the U.S transmission grid See also Carreras et al., 2003, for a discussion of transmission outage...
... instantiations of theGrid These chapters provide the underpinning information that the proceeding chapters build onThe second section, “basic services”, contains the chapters that describe Grid security ... Services Grid Security Grid Monitoring Job Management and User Interaction Grid Scheduling and Resource Management Workflow Management for theGridGrid Portals Applications Grid Applications – ... about the core technologies that make up theGrid today The material being developed for the companion Web site will supplement the book’s content We intend that the book, along with Web content,...
... @zoneHeight - 90 Zones below the center zone will get the max dec in the zone, Zones above will get the ~min dec in the zone SET @delta_dec = ABS(@dec - @dec_atZone) how far away is the ... of the answer Second, the main advantage comes from using the Zone [11] strategy to index the data and speed up the neighborhood searches The SQL design could be further optimized The iteration ... application, upon authentication and authorization, the SQL code (about 500 lines) is deployed onthe available Data -Grid nodes hosting the CAS database system Each node will analyze a piece of the...
... York) the landscape of history 13 every fold in their clothes, every frill in the lace, the apples onthe windowsill, the shoes onthe floor, the individual hairs onthe little dog, and even the ... about them only after they’ve happened We might define the future, then, as the zone within which contingencies and continuities coexist independently of one another; the past as the place where their ... American National Security Policy The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations We Now Know:...
... wedges at the metropolis scale 3.1 Ideal city configuration in relation to greenspace Howard (1898) pioneered consideration of the green dimension of urban forms, besides traditional functions such ... respectively to the northeast, the east, the southeast and the southwest (Fig 8) They are shaped by sympathetic accommodation of existing greenspace layout, filling the space left by the planned ... the city-wall at the Tongji Gate In the north city, Jinchuan River runs through the city from the south to the north into Yangtze River, with a canal connecting to Xuanwu Lake In Nanjing’s long...
... the decision-making algorithm for choosing the best option among candidate alternatives based onthe optimization model in Figure 13 to maximize the profitability under given conditions Once the ... work on CDM projects, which is usually longterm based The other option is to buy emission credits from the emission trading markets, which is available on short-term basis when emission obligations ... acquisition from EPSIS Comparison Final option selected finding out the solution Strategic variables are defined in the mathematical formulation and the operation data acquired from communication channels...
... to the rotation or translation within the active site of the protein An energy function evaluates the newly formed conformation and accepts the conformation only if the energy is lower than the ... sampling these translational, rotational and conformational degrees of freedom accurately and further finding the ligand conformation which best matches the receptor conformation Furthermore, the ... on Grids related to the drug discovery process Finally, chapter focuses onthe role of computational Grids in the thesis Further, the EGEE Grid infrastructure and the WISDOM production environment,...
... combination of translates of the function ϕλ,d on a Smolyak gridThe following theorem gives an upper bound for the error of the approximation of functions f ∈ Φλ,p (Td ) by the operator Pm Theorem ... function on Td We are interested in the approximation in Lp (Td )-norm of all functions f ∈ W by arbitrary linear combinations of n translates of the function ψ, that is, by the functions in the ... from our definition (2.6) the equation Qm (f )(x) = Pm (x, t)g(t) dt (2.9) T We now use equation (1.2), the definition of the trigonometric polynomial Hm given in equation (2.5) and the easily verified...
... a continuous function f has the decomposition f = qk (f ) k∈Zd+ with the convergence in the norm of C(Td ) From the definition of (3.16) and the refinement equation for the B-spline M , in the ... is the interval [0, 2−k ], we can extend these functions to an 1-periodic function onthe whole R Denote this periodic extension by µk Define the univariate nonnegative function gk,s and gk on ... high-dimensional approximation problems using function values information, the number m of sampled values is the main parameter in the study of convergence rates of the approximation error with...
... approximation of the solution of Poisson’s equation to elliptic variational problems The necessary dimension nε of the optimized sparse grid space for the finite element approximation of the solution ... min(r, r −1+1/p), then a function f on Id belongs to the a if and only if f can be represented by the series (2.26) satisfying the convergence space Bp,θ a condition (2.40) Moreover, the quasi-norm ... ) f = k∈Zd+ with the convergence in the norm of L∞ (Id ) From the definition of (2.21) and the refinement equation for the B-spline M , we can represent the component functions qk (f ) as (r)...