A new species of the Stenus cephalotes group, S. mawenliae sp. n. from Guangxi, South China, is described and illustrated. The latest key to Chinese species of the group is modified to include the new species.

The hypothesis that oculomotor smooth pursuit (SP) adaptation is accompanied by alterations in velocity perception was tested by assessing coherence thresholds, using random-dot kinematograms before and after the adaptation paradigm. The results showed that the sensitivity to coherent motion at 10 deg/sec (the initial target velocity during adaptation) was reduced after the SP adaptation, endin...

The Survey Propagation (SP) algorithm [1] has recently been shown to work well in the hard region for random K-SAT problems. SP has its origins in sophisticated arguments in statistical physics, and can be derived from an approach known as the cavity method, when applied at what is called the one-step replica symmetry breaking level. In its most general form, SP can be applied to general constr...

Recently, the development of integrated inverters for photovoltaic systems has been widely performed to reduce overall system size, costs, and losses. Thus, have emerged as a prominent solution replacing two-stage power conversion composed step-up converter voltage source inverter. Thereby, this paper proposes an inverter topology single-phase grid-tied systems. The proposed converter, called S...

Abstract : The cryptographic strength of an SP network depends crucially on the strength of its substitution boxes (S-boxes). In this paper we use the concept of information leakage to evaluate the strength of Sboxes and SP networks. We define a n equivalence class on n x n S-boxes that is invariant in information leakage. Simulation results for a 16x 16 SP network suggest that after a sufficie...

Survey propagation (SP) is an exciting new technique that has been remarkably successful at solving very large hard combinatorial problems, such as determining the satisfiability of Boolean formulas. In a promising attempt at understanding the success of SP, it was recently shown that SP can be viewed as a form of belief propagation, computing marginal probabilities over certain objects called ...

SP and SI frames in the H.264 video coding standard can be used for error resilience, bitstream switching or random access. Despite a widespread interest in these new types of frames, no work so far has investigated, in a systematic way, their rate-distortion efficiency. In this paper, we propose a model for the rate-distortion performance of SI and SP frames. A comparison to experimental resul...

BACKGROUND The standard lead configuration for internal atrial defibrillation consists of a shock between electrodes in the right atrial appendage (RAA) and coronary sinus (CS). We tested the hypothesis that the atrial defibrillation threshold (ADFT) of this RAA-->CS configuration would be lowered with use of an additional electrode at the atrial septum (SP). METHODS AND RESULTS Sustained atr...

After briefly reviewing the theoretical set up underlying the Survey Propagation (SP) equations, we show how SP can be generalized to include external forcing – external surveys – which allow to address selectively glassy states (which may be exponentially numerous). Taking as working model the random K-SAT problem, we show that the geometrical nature of its different glassy phases can be probe...

In this paper, we study the convergence and almost sure (S, T)−stability of Jungck-Noor type, Jungck-SP type, Jungck-Ishikawa type and Jungck-Mann type random iterative algorithms for some kind of a general contractive type random operators (2.14) in a separable Banach spaces. The Bochner integrability of random fixed point of this kind of random operators, the convergence and almost sure (S, T...