Metagenomics is the study of microbial ecology using genetics as an access point. We seek to understand the microbial communities in environments such as tidal pools, soil, mine runoff, or even the human gut, so that we can understand the impact that microbes have on our world and our health. Metagenomic analysis usually involves the determination of what species are present in a given sample, ...

Social influence can be described as power the ability of a person to influence the thoughts or actions of others. Identifying influential users on online social networks such as Twitter has been actively studied recently. In this paper, we investigate a modified k-shell decomposition algorithm for computing user influence on Twitter. The input to this algorithm is the connection graph between ...

Recently a modified -means algorithm for vector quantization design has been proposed where the codevector updating step is as follows: new codevector = current codevector + scale factor (new centroid current codevector). This algorithm uses a fixed value for the scale factor. In this paper, we propose the use of a variable scale factor which is a function of the iteration number. For the vecto...

The k-means algorithm is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms and has been applied in many fields of science and technology. One of the major problems of the k-means algorithm is that it may produce empty clusters depending on initial center vectors. For static execution of the k-means, this problem is considered insignificant and can be solved by executing the algorithm for a numb...

In this paper, we derived recurrence relations for joint moment generating functions of nonadjacent generalized order statistics (GOS) of random samples drawn from doubly truncated class of continuous distributions. Recurrence relations for joint moments of nonadjacent GOS (ordinary order statistics (OOS) and k-upper records (k-RVs) as special cases) are obtained. Single and product moment gene...

In this paper we present a novel clustering technique called Seed-Detective. It is a combination of modified versions of two existing techniques namely Ex-Detective and Simple K-Means. Seed-Detective first discovers a set of preliminary clusters using our modified Ex-Detective. The modified Ex-Detective allows a data miner to assign different weights (importance levels) for all attributes, both...

Abstract—A mixed method by combining modified pole clustering technique and modified cauer continued fraction is proposed for reducing the order of the large-scale dynamic systems. The denominator polynomial of the reduced order model is obtained by using modified pole clustering technique while the coefficients of the numerator are obtained by modified cauer continued fraction. This method gen...

Humic acids and clays are important soil components that influence the sorption and desorption of organic contaminants; however, it is unclear how humic acids influence the sorption of organic contaminants onto clays and their subsequent desorption. Sorption and desorption of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) by and from humic acid-modified K(+)- and Ca(2+)-montmorillonite and -illite were comp...

Background Conduction mediated by the slow inward (Ca2+) current occurs in vitro under specific experimental conditions but has not been documented in ventricular muscle in vivo during regional myocardial ischemia, perhaps because certain constituents of ischemia (including hypoxia and acidosis) may inhibit the Ca2' current in this setting. We hypothesized that slow conduction mediated by the C...