Verticillium dahliae is a soil-borne phytopathogen and the causal agent of wilt. It affects many agriculturally important crops around world, including cotton. In Australia, billion-dollar cotton industry increasingly impacted by Internationally it has been reported that defoliating V. Vegetative Compatibility Group (VCG) 1A causes severe damage to Australia however, non-defoliating VCG2A causi...

Background The electrocardiogram (ECG) is important for gating purposes in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). However, the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effect, which is caused by the flow of blood in the static magnetic field, makes it difficult to record clean ECG signals for gating. The vectorcardiogram (VCG), which can be derived from the ECG signal, is commonly used for gating purposes ...

We consider the revenue of the Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction, which is one of the most widely used mechanisms for ad auctions. While the standard model of ad auctions implies that the revenue of GSP in equilibrium is at least as high as the revenue of VCG, the literature suggests that it is not strictly higher due to the selection of a natural equilibrium that coincides with the VCG ou...

Many methods for deriving vectorcardiographic (VCG) leads from 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) were published. All of them are based on a linear transformation. Differences are only in coefficients of transformation matrixes which are designed based on a model or on linear regression methods. This paper presents and assesses a new nonlinear transformation method based on artificial neural netwo...