mucosal surfaces of the body provide a universal entry portal for all known and emerging infectious pathogenic microbes. therefore, it seems that special vaccination strategies are needed for vaccines that can hinder the entry capability of pathogenic microbes through the mucosal surfaces. lactic acid bacteria are widely used in the food industry and are presently applied as delivery vehicles i...

The subject of on-line detection of short winding fault in three-phase induction motors is discussed, and a noninvasive approach, based on the computer-aided monitoring of the stator current Park’s Vector, is introduced. The park's vector representation is obtained using Virtual instrument. The Virtual Instrument is obtained by programming in Labview software. The laboratory tests were conducte...

The SVM has recently been introduced as a new learning technique for solving variety of real world applications based on learning theory. The classical RBF network has similar structure as SVM with Gaussian kernel. Similarly, the FNN also possess an identical structure with SVM. The support vector machine includes polynomial learning machine, radial-basis function network, Gaussian radial-basis...

Several combinatorial optimization problems can be approximated using algorithms based on semideenite programming. In many of these algorithms a semideenite relaxation of the underlying problem is solved yielding an optimal vector connguration v 1 : : : v n. This vector connguration is then rounded into a f0; 1g solution. We present a procedure called RP R 2 (Random Projection followed by Rando...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used signal processing technique. Instead of performing PCA in the data space, we consider the problem of sparse PCA in a potentially higher dimensional latent space. To do so, we zero-out groups of variables using vector `0 regularization. The estimation is based on the maximization of the penalized log-likelihood, for which we develop an efficien...

We present a method to recognize hand gestures, based on a pattern recognition technique developed by McConnell [16] employing histograms of local orientation. We use the orientation histogram as a feature vector for gesture class cation and interpolation. This method is simple and fast to compute, and o ers some robustness to scene illumination changes. We have implemented a real-time version,...