... preferred habitat hypothesis because it contends that interest rates are determined by supply and demand and that different investors have preferred maturities from which they no stray • There is ... rate of 8% and a current price of $964.54 The bond is callable in one year at a premium of 3% over the face value Assume that interest payments will be reinvested at 9% per year, and that the ... of days in a month and year Not all fixed-income markets use the same convention: – 30/360 – 30 days in a month, 360 days in a year This is used in the corporate, agency, and municipal markets...
... position and velocity, and top and _ _ _ bottom pendulum angle and angular velocity, x ¼ ½x; x; y1 ; y1 ; y2 ; y2 The system parameters correspond to the length and mass of each pendulum, and the ... ¼ Ck ¼ @x @n D ^ xk ð7:29Þ n and where Rv and Rn are the covariances of vk and nk , respectively The noise means are denoted by n ¼ E½n and v ¼ E½v, and are usually assumed to equal zero ... filtering (CDF) techniques developed separately by Ito and Xiong [12] and Nørgaard, Poulsen, and Ravn [13] In [7] van der Merwe and Wan show how the UKF and CDF can be unified in a general family of derivativefree...
... FUNDAMENTALS AND IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS for testing purposes and for mathematically describing certain phenomena Random signals are information-bearing signals such as speech Some deterministic signals ... the input signal, and y n x n À 1 3:1:12 is the output signal, which is the input signal delayed by one unit (a sampling period) In fact, the signal x n À 1 is actually the stored signal ... output signal y n is dependent on the current input signal x n and the previous output signal y n À 1 Assuming that the system is causal, i.e., y n for n < and let x n d n The output signals...
... other hand we slide the same object on a very slippery surface such as ice, the object will travel a much larger distance before it stops Newton checked his ideas on the motion of the moon and the ... forces act on a body (say FA , FB , and FC ) the net force Fnet r r r r r r r r is defined as: Fnet = FA + FB + FC i.e Fnet is the vector sum of FA , FB , and FC Force: The concept of force was ... act on a body r r r r (say FA , FB , and FC ) the net force Fnet r r r r is defined as: Fnet = FA + FB + FC r i.e Fnet is the vector sum of r r r FA , FB , and FC (5-3) F mo ao F mX Mass: Mass...
... disk, and so on See Chapter for more information on the HTML::Mason::Component family of classes Using Autohandlers and Dhandlers Together Despite their similar names, the autohandler and dhandler ... distinct and can be used independently or in tandem In this section we look at some ways to use autohandlers and dhandlers together Most important about the way dhandlers and autohandlers interact ... determine a parent for /autohandler because there are no directories above /autohandler and /autohandler doesn't explicitly specify a parent, /autohandler remains parentless, and the construction of...
... convertToUppercase The phrase before conversion is: characters and $32.98 The phrase after conversion is: CHARACTERS AND $32.98 2 003 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved 10 11 13 15 16 11 // ... convert pointer to void pointer 2 003 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved 21 Pointer Expressions and Pointer Arithmetic • Pointer comparison – Use equality and relational operators – Comparisons ... whether pointer is (does not point to anything) 2 003 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved 22 Relationship Between Pointers and Arrays • Arrays and pointers closely related – Array name like constant...
... Rate and Bandwidth Any transmission system has a limited band of frequencies This limits the data rate that can be carried Analog and Digital Data Transmission Data Entities that convey meaning Signals ... components Data and Signals Usually use digital signals for digital data and analog signals for analog data Can use analog signal to carry digital data Modem Can use digital signal to carry analog ... contained in signal Absolute bandwidth width of spectrum Effective bandwidth Often just bandwidth Narrow band of frequencies containing most of the energy DC Component Component of zero frequency Signal...
... tasks of data transfer and signaling are separated in modern telephone networks: data transfer is done by one network, signaling by another 9.7 Figure 9.4 Data transfer and signaling networks 9.8 ... Standards 9.10 Figure 9.6 Telephone line bandwidth 9.11 Note Modem stands for modulator/demodulator 9.12 Figure 9.7 Modulation/demodulation 9.13 Figure 9.8 The V.32 and V.32bis constellation and ... technology Topics discussed in this section: Bandwidth Sharing CM and CMTS Data Transmission Schemes: DOCSIS 9.30 Figure 9.16 Division of coaxial cable band by CATV 9.31 Note Downstream data are...
... Nakajima K & Latchman DS (1999) Signal transducer and activator of transcription-1 and heat shock factor-1 interact and activate the transcription of the Hsp-70 and Hsp-90beta gene promoters J ... °C for h, and the expression of STAT3, Hsp70 and a-tubulin was analyzed by western blotting, using the respective antibodies (B) The density of bands was quantified by densitometry, and was corrected ... 110 and the yeast homologs Sse1p ⁄ 2p have been shown to act as efficient nucleotide exchange factors for Hsp70 and its orthologs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Ssa1p and Ssb1p, respectively, and...
... receptor signalling [3–5] and of cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-6 [6] It is also involved in transformation and tumour progression [7] and its activation, as detected in breast, head and neck, ... or control ODN (con) and the dead cells were counted after 16, 24 and 48 h of culture using trypan blue staining (C) Cells were treated with 0.5, and lg of hpST3dODN andand lg of control ODN ... ODN (lanes and 5) for 16 h and lysed; the complexes were bound to streptavidine and separated on gels Cells were either not treated (lane 1), treated with IL-6 (30 ngÆmL)1, lanes and 4) or treated...
... Amplification and control of B cell antigen receptor signaling M Reth and Y Kulathu Institute for Biology III and Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany E-mail: reth@immunbio.mpg.de Signal ... main role is to control 1.5 Signaling and Cancer: Nuclear Receptor Connection S1.5-1 Androgen action and prostate carcinogenesis F Saatcioglu ¸ ˘ Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department ... conformation, Syk can recruit other signalling molecules thus facilitating their phosphorylation and the propagation of the BCR signal These studies, which are conducted in a novel signalling pathway reconstitution...
... Systems Chapter 4: Operating Systems and File Management 20 SECTION File Basics C File Names and Extensions File Directories and Folders File Formats Chapter 4: Operating Systems and File ... operating system Chapter 4: Operating Systems and File Management User Interfaces The combination of hardware and software that helps people and computers communicate with each other Chapter 4: Operating ... Chapter 4: Operating Systems and File Management 10 The Boot Process Chapter 4: Operating Systems and File Management 11 SECTION Today’s Operating Systems B Microsoft Windows Mac OS UNIX and...
... network 18.16 Figure 18.10 TP, VPs, and VCs 18.17 Figure 18.11 Example of VPs and VCs 18.18 Note Note that a virtual connection is defined by a pair of numbers: the VPI and the VCI 18.19 Figure 18.12 ... is a virtual-circuit wide-area network that was designed in response to demands for a new type of WAN in the late 1980s and early 1990s Topics discussed in this section: Architecture Frame Relay ... identifiers in UNIs and NNIs 18.21 Figure 18.14 An ATM cell 18.22 Figure 18.15 Routing with a switch 18.23 Figure 18.16 ATM layers 18.24 Figure 18.17 ATM layers in endpoint devices and switches 18.25...
... Example 21.1, an ARP request and reply 21.9 Figure 21.6 Proxy ARP 21.10 Figure 21.7 BOOTP client and server on the same and different networks 21.11 Note DHCP provides static and dynamic address allocation ... ARP request and reply packets encapsulated in Ethernet frames Solution Figure 21.5 shows the ARP request and reply packets Note that the ARP data field in this case is 28 bytes, and that the ... simple echo-request message We randomly chose the identifier to be and the sequence number to be The message is divided into 16-bit (2-byte) words The words are added and the sum is complemented...
... of the network—the number of packets a network can handle Congestion control refers to the mechanisms and techniques to control the congestion and keep the load below the capacity Topics discussed ... Queues in a router 24.6 Figure Packet delay and throughput as functions of load 24.7 24-3 CONGESTION CONTROL Congestion control refers to techniques and mechanisms that can either prevent congestion, ... 24.7 Choke packet 24.11 24-4 TWO EXAMPLES To better understand the concept of congestion control, let us give two examples: one in TCP and the other in Frame Relay Topics discussed in this section:...
... involved in gene regulation by hormones and other signaling agents are called response elements As will be discussed in Chapters 17 and 19 through 23 (on phytochrome and the plant hormones), numerous ... repressed and ompF expression is stimulated (From Parkinson 1993.) Gene Expression andSignal Transduction cyanobacteria, and it appears to be related to bacterial sensor proteins (see Chapter ... encode nuclear transcription factors include MYC and MYB Both phytochrome (see Chap- Gene Expression andSignal Transduction ter 17) and gibberellin (see Chapter 20) are believed to regulate gene expression...
... stomata in leaf gas exchange (see Chapter 9) and in plant acclimations and adaptations to their environment We will also discuss blue-light photoreceptors and the signal transduction cascade that ... of rubisco, and for the proteins that bind chlorophylls a and b (see Chapters 13, 8, and 7, respectively) Most of the studies on light-activated genes show sensitivity to both blue and red light, ... surface (see Chapter 17) The conversion of and can be measured within 15 to 30 s (Figure 18.6) InterPr to Pfr (the red- and far red–absorbing forms of phyactions between phytochrome and the blue...
... Figure 4.1 Line coding and decoding 4.3 Figure 4.2 Signal element versus data element 4.4 Example 4.1 A signal is carrying data in which one data element is encoded as one signal element ( r = ... between and 1? Solution W e assume that the av erage v alue of c is 1/2 The baud rate is then 4.5 Note Although the actual bandwidth of a digital signal is infinite, the effective bandwidth ... average signal rate of N/2 Bd 4.14 Note NRZ-L and NRZ-I both have a DC component problem 4.15 Example 4.4 A system is using NRZ-I to transfer 10-Mbps data What are the average signal rate and minimum...