... Approximation of f at x1 Slow convergence of steepest descent Fast convergence of Newton’s method w/ αk = Given xk , the method obtains xk+1 as the minimum of a quadratic approximation of f basedon ... negligible CONVEXITY αx + (1 - α)y, < α < x y y x y x y x Convex Sets Nonconvex Sets Convex and nonconvex sets αf(x) + (1 - α)f(y) f(z) x y z C A convex function Linear interpolation underestimates ... 1st and 2nd order conditions but are not local minima f(x) = |x|3 (convex) x* = x f(x) = x3 x* = f(x) = - |x|3 x x* = x First and second order necessary optimality conditions for functions of one...
... section, the cost of substitutions is less than that of insertions and deletions Here, we assume that the cost of substitutions is basedon the similarity of the two words Then with the help of ... combination of the weights of insertion, deletion and substitution The relation is shown in equation (2), where ins, del and sub are the appearance times 55 • The Continuous Match Value(CMV): Continuous ... organization In language usage facet, grammar, spelling and punctuation are common features in assessment of the writing competence (Landauer et al., 2003; Attali and Burstein, 2006), and so does...
... supervised Japanese named entity recognition: Resources and evaluation In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pages 1229–1236 ... books, and fine arts, among other nouns Titles of books and fine arts are often long and have atypical word patterns However, they are often delimited by a pair of symbols that correspond to quotation ... member of the candidate for the definition of According to this ordering, two candidates can have the same rank One of them might assert that a certain word is an organization’s name and another candidate...
... integration into genomic DNA At best, only 0.001% of cells generate clones Expansion of the few survivors takes weeks, particularly with selection and functional testing of individual clones In contrast, ... Plasmid constructs Fig Validation of pEBTet and pEBTetD vectors on the level of protein function (A) Regulation of expression ETTh, which resides in the plasma membrane Ergothioneine (ET) content ... activation domains are toxic [12] Thus, relocation of TetR fusion proteins upon binding of inducer can be expected to cause secondary background differences Pronounced alteration of rtTA expression...
... Text Data Ronald Brandow, Karl Mitze, and Lisa F Rau 1995 Automatic condensation of electronic publications by sentence selection Information Processing and Management: an International Journal ... Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval:2–10 Ani Nenkova and Lucy Vanderwende 2005 The Impact of Frequency on Summarization ... Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics:294–301 Anastasios Tombros and Mark Sanderson 1998 Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval...
... Composition of mixture gases at different reaction conditions for C3H6 oxidation Composition Concentration, % Deficient oxygen Excess oxygen condition Excess oxygen condition with condition with ... MnCo 1-3 and CeCo 1-4 catalysts in excess oxygen condition 49 Figure 3.3 C3H6 conversion of CeCo1-4 in different reaction conditions (condition a: excess oxygen condition with the presence of CO: ... influence of CO and C3H6 at lean and H2 at rich conditions on NO conversion is investigated, both at steady-state conditions Furthermore, the model is also applied for the simulation of emissions of...
... coefficients of atomic dek=1 composition 2.2 Demonstration of algorithm and comparison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients In this section, we present an example to demonstrate the procedure of the ... and are not sensitive to the noise Decision rule basedon MP coefficients and LRT In this section, the VAD basedon the MP coefficients and LRT is presented in Section 3.1 To test the distribution ... algorithm is described in Section 2.1, and the demonstration of algorithm and compar- ison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients are presented in Section 2.2 2.1 Conjugate subspace MP Matching...
... coefficients of atomic dek=1 composition 2.2 Demonstration of algorithm and comparison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients In this section, we present an example to demonstrate the procedure of the ... and are not sensitive to the noise Decision rule basedon MP coefficients and LRT In this section, the VAD basedon the MP coefficients and LRT is presented in Section 3.1 To test the distribution ... algorithm is described in Section 2.1, and the demonstration of algorithm and compar- ison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients are presented in Section 2.2 2.1 Conjugate subspace MP Matching...
... Section 2.1, and the demonstration of algorithm and comparison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients are presented in Section 2.2 Deng and Han EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music ... ficients of atomic decomposition 2.2 Demonstration of algorithm and comparison between MP coefficients and DFT coefficients In this section, we present an example to demonstrate the procedure of the ... to the noise Decision rule basedon MP coefficients and LRT In this section, the VAD basedon the MP coefficients and LRT is presented in Section 3.1 To test the distribution of the MP coefficients,...
... off) in the absence of the control field (control off), which shows the standard resonance absorption profile However, when the coupling turns on, the center of the curve shifts from the resonance ... because of a three-photon process, involving simultaneous absorption of two control photons and emission of a photon at frequency ωc - ωn The middle dashed lines in Figure 2a corresponds to the ... between the NR and the CPB island, Cg and Vg are, respectively, the gate capacitance and voltage of the CPB qubit, and CJ is the capacitance of each Josephson junction Displacement (by x) of the NR...
... (6) Figure 3: Five additional states and six additional conditions on transitions to enhance the robustness and the efficiency of the FSM shown in Figure The output function of the FSM can have two ... 242–247, London, UK, September 2007 [4] A Singh, S Sawan, M Hanmandlu, V K Madasu, and B C Lovell, “An abandoned object detection system basedon dual background segmentation,” in Proceedings of the ... Conferenceon Computer Vision, 2000 [7] R Heras Evangelio and T Sikora, “Detection of static objects for the task of video surveillance,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of...
... detection limit for Hg2? is established at 10-6 M under current experimental conditions (Fig 7b) The result of a titration of DA/SBA-15 with Hg2? ions is shown in Fig Addition of 15 equivalents of ... detection of Hg2? Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction ... presence of different metal ions are shown in Fig 8, which indicates that only Hg2? ions quench the fluorescence of DA/SBA-15 No noticeable fluorescence changes of DA/SBA-15 were observed on addition of...
... time-varying, andof a dynamic nature Those dynamic systems consist of two coupled parts, one being of a continuoustime nature being modeled by an ordinary differential equation and the other one being of ... is exponentially stable) under the stronger condition A k ≤ a < − K d /K < where the real constants K and a are related to the state transition matrix of Σd 2.10 and defined in the proof of Proposition ... that converges to a unique limit oscillation x kT τ → z∗ τ as Z0 T ; for all τ ∈ 0, T , under the modified constraints C4 The condition of convergence of the sequence of sampling periods to a constant...
... coefficients of a three-level conventional discrete wavelet transform expansion of the region of interest In addition, a Gaussian sum particle filter basedon a nonlinear model of color and texture ... representation and processing of images by using dictionaries of basis functions other than the traditional dictionary of sinusoids such as discrete cosine transform (DCT) These new sets of dictionaries ... OVERVIEW OF THE UWPT The process of feature selection in the proposed algorithm relies on the multiresolution expansion of images The idea is to represent an image by a linear combination of elementary...
... Positioning System: Theory and Applications, Volume 1, vol 163 of Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Reston, Va, USA, 1996 [7] P Misra and ... non-line -of- sight-multipath in urban canyons,” in Proceedings of the 18th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS ’05), pp 1083–1094, Long Beach, Calif, USA, ... algorithm of TDoA -based positioning using FGs, we need some fundamental calculus taken from theory of conic sections and shown in the following The aim of this procedure is to provide the local constraints...
... information processing in Spain, on laser microscopy at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, andon 3D handheld scanners in England He is pursuing research on contentbased management of multimedia ... transformations From those quantities we have built two representations: one basedon the statistical distribution of the invariants and the other basedon their topological distribution Both representations ... multimedia information and applied visualisation at the National Research Council of Canada His current research interests include content -based description of multimedia and multidimensional objects,...
... or low daily or 3.4 Effect of diurnal conditional averaging of conductance values on the comparison between diurnal and daily conductance After examination of portions of our data set in which ... patterns of conductance In this study we evaluate differences in conductance values calculated basedon mean daily conditions versus those basedon averages of diurnal values The use of stem sapflow ... occurred, both on momings and evenings of clear days and throughout overcast diurnals (e.g., figure 3) a combination conditional average basedon light level and a minimum D was defined Conductance...
... mediation effects of agency anduse of Path model with partial mediation effects of agency type on organizational support for evidence -based practice and attitudes toward evidence -based practice, and ... Effects of Environment, Organization and Top Managers Brit J of Manage 2006, 17:215-236 Aarons GA: Transformational and transactional leadership: Association with attitudes toward evidence -based ... full mediation model of the effect of agency type on attitudes toward EBP mediated by organizational support for EBP, and full mediation of the effect of organizational support for EBP on EBP use...
... The first SpeA construct consists of a single mutation at residue leucine 42 [SpeA (L42R) or SpeA (L42A)], while the second construct consists of a fusion between the SpeA (L42R) and a mutant SpeB ... limitation of the Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Relative binding, median fluorescence Journal of Immune Based Therapies and Vaccines 2008, 6:8 50 http://www.jibtherapies.com/content/6/1/8 ... protection against a second virulence factor (SpeB), potential cost savings and simplification of vaccine production Because of the strong association between streptococcal toxic shock and invasive...