Non-negative point-wise priors such as saliency map, defocus field, foreground mask, object location window, and user given seeds, appear in many fundamental computer vision problems. These priors come in the form of confidence or probability values, and they are often incomplete, irregular, and noisy, which eventually makes the labelling task a challenge. Our goal is to extract image regions t...

Dy-123 superconducting ceramics have been grown using small Dy2O3 single-crystals as seeds. Randomly oriented large mono-domains have been observed in the vicinity of the seeding single crystal. These domains are one order of magnitude greater in volume than the seed. The AC susceptibility versus temperature curves have been measured in a polycrystalline cubic sample for different orientations ...

On top of the passively secure extension protocol of [IKNP03] we build a new construction secure against active adversaries. We can replace the invocation of the hash function that is used to check the receiver is well-behaved with the XOR of bit strings. This is possible by applying a cut-and-choose technique on the length of the bit strings that the receiver sends in the reversed OT. We also ...

an indirect tarns-log production function was employed to estimate the demand functions for such inputs as: fertilizer, seed, pesticide, water recourse and machinery as subject to budget constraint and while using data related to cotton producers in the three provinces of north khorasan, khorasane razavi, and south khorasan in 2007-8. lagrange coefficients with relation to cotton producers in t...

We investigate the evolution of high-redshift seed black hole masses at late times and their observational signatures. The massive black hole seeds studied here form at extremely high redshifts from the direct collapse of pre-galactic gas discs. Populating dark matter haloes with seeds formed in this way, we follow the mass assembly of these black holes to the present time using a Monte Carlo m...

Suberin and cutin are fatty acid- and glycerol-based plant polymers that act as pathogen barriers and function in the control of water and solute transport. However, despite important physiological roles, their biosynthetic pathways, including the acyl transfer reactions, remain hypothetical. We report the characterization of two suberin mutants (gpat5-1 and gpat5-2) of Arabidopsis thaliana GPA...

Given a pair of calibrated cameras, we describe an effective seed construction method for 3D reconstruction which starts with initial estimates of seed position, improves them and computes good estimates normals. We formulate the seed construction as an optimization problem with a criterial function based on the similarity of reprojection of images on a hypothetical planar patch. We show that t...

Fatty acids (FAs) and FA-derived complex lipids play important roles in plant growth and vegetative development and are a class of prominent metabolites stored in mature seeds. The factors and regulatory networks that control FA accumulation in plant seeds remain largely unknown. The role of TRANSPARENT TESTA8 (TT8) in the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis and the formation of seed coat colo...

In this paper we derive the mass function of seed black holes that result from the central mass concentrated via disc accretion in collapsed haloes at redshift z ≈ 15. Using standard arguments including stability, we show that these pre-galactic discs can assemble a significant mass concentration in the inner regions, providing fuel for the formation and initial growth of super-massive black ho...

Abscisic acid (ABA) is a phytohormone that positively regulates seed dormancy and stress tolerance. PYL/RCARs were identified an intracellular ABA receptors regulating ABA-dependent gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. However, their function in monocot species has not been characterized yet. Herein, it is demonstrated that PYL/RCAR orthologues in Oryza sativa function as a positive regulat...