BIOCHEMISTRY: Surviving a Dry Spell

A nonparametric wet/dry spell model for resampling daily precipitation

A nonparametric wet/dry spell model is developed for resampling daily precipitation at a site. The model considers alternating sequences of wet and dry days in a given season of the year. All marginal, joint, and conditional probability densities of interest (e.g., dry spell length, wet spell length, precipitation amount, and wet spell length given prior to dry spell length) are estimated nonpa...

Xvi. the Biochemistry of Dry-rot

Surviving a Dry Future: Abscisic Acid (ABA)-Mediated Plant Mechanisms for Conserving Water under Low Humidity

Angiosperms are able to respond rapidly to the first sign of dry conditions, a decrease in air humidity, more accurately described as an increase in the vapor pressure deficit between the leaf and the atmosphere (VPD), by abscisic acid (ABA)-mediated stomatal closure. The genes underlying this response offer valuable candidates for targeted selection of crop varieties with improved drought tole...

A Novel Binary Spell Checker

In this paper we propose a simple, flexible and efficient hybrid spell checking methodology based upon phonetic matching, supervised learning and associative matching in the AURA neural system. We evaluate our approach against several benchmark spell-checking algorithms for recall accuracy. Our proposed hybrid methodology has the joint highest top 10 recall rate of the techniques evaluated. The...

A Spell Checker for a World Language: The New Microsoft’s Spanish Spell Checker

This paper reports work carried out to develop a speller for Spanish at Microsoft Corporation, discusses the technique for isolatedword error correction used by the speller, provides general descriptions of the error data collection and error typology, and surveys a variety of linguistic considerations relevant when dealing with a world language spread over several countries and exposed to diff...