The structure of the physical and strange attractors is inherently associated with the boundedness of fluctuations. The idea behind the boundedness is that a stable long-term evolution of any natural and engineered system is possible if and only if the fluctuations that the system exerts are bounded so that the system permanently stays within its thresholds of stability. It has been established...

Pipelined Processor Farms (PPF) are a generic parallelprocessing structure suitable for continuous-flow, multialgorithm applications. PPF has been redesigned for a multimedia workload which is multifunctional and multimodal. A dynamic object-based processing structure is implemented which will map onto mobile stations. The PPF processing model with asynchronous message-passing in a multi-thread...

Holliday junctions play a central role in genetic recombination, DNA repair and other cellular processes. We combine simulations and experiments to evaluate the ability of the 3SPN.2 model, a coarse-grained representation designed to mimic B-DNA, to predict the properties of DNA Holliday junctions. The model reproduces many experimentally determined aspects of junction structure and stability, ...

In this research, the effects of a sedimentary basin, environmental conditions, and the passage of time were investigated on consolidation processes and engineering characteristics of fine-grained soils in Kerman city. For this purpose, the natural consolidation curves of soil samples extracted from different locations of Kerman city were compared with the Kerman city intrinsic consolidation li...

in this study, the effects cold rolling and annealing parameters during thermomechanical processing of the aisi 201ln stainless steel were investigated. the cast samples were homogenized, hot-rolled and solution-annealed to acquire a suitable microstructure for the subsequent thermomechanical treatment. unidirectional and transverse multi-pass cold rolling at 25, 0 and -15 °c was carried out to...

Despite the success of RNA secondary structure prediction for simple, short RNAs, the problem of predicting RNAs with long-range tertiary folds remains. Furthermore, RNA 3D structure prediction is hampered by the lack of the knowledge about the tertiary contacts and their thermodynamic parameters. Low-resolution structural modeling enables us to estimate the conformational entropies for a numbe...

We approach the general problem of classifying machine-printed documents into genres. Layout is a critical factor in recognizing fine-grained genres, as document content features are similar. Document genre is determined from the layout structure detected from scanned binary images of the document pages, using no OCR results and minimal a priori knowledge of document logical structures. Our met...

Web engineering concepts and tools have often not kept step with the dramatic increase in the power and complexity of Web applications. This paper focuses on problems caused by the introduction of business processes and their integration with navigation in Web applications. A phase-lag mismatch between the HTTP-oriented structure of the Web support software and the logical structure of processe...

Visual processing in cortex relies on feedback projections contextualising feedforward information flow. Primary visual cortex (V1) has small receptive fields and processes feedforward information at a fine-grained spatial scale, whereas higher visual areas have larger, spatially invariant receptive fields. Therefore, feedback could provide coarse information about the global scene structure or...