Data consisting of preadmission criteria scores, annual and final cumulative grade point averages (GPAs), grades from individual professional courses, American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education (AVMA-COE) Competency scores, annual class rank, and North American Veterinary Licensing Exam (NAVLE) scores were collected on all graduating DVM students at Kansas State University in ...

The classical Petrov-Galerkin approach to Black Box multigrid for nonsymmetric problems due to Dendy is combined with the recent factor-three-coarsening Black Box algorithm due to Dendy and Moulton, along with a powerful symmetric line Gauss-Seidel smoother, resulting in an e cient and robust multigrid solver. Focusing on the convectiondi usion operator, the algorithm is tested and shown to ach...

| A digital lter is one of the fundamental elements in the digital video transmission, and a multiplier acts as the key factor that determines the operation speed and silicon area of the lter. Even though the coe cients to the lter are desired to be programmable, it is possible to change coe cients in the vertical y-back interval of television receivers. This allows the preloadability of coe ci...

Eigen-MLLR coe cients are proposed as new feature parameters for speaker-identi cation in this paper. By performing principle component analysis on MLLR parameters among training speakers, the eigen-MLLR coe cients (EMCs) are derived as the coe cients for the eigenvectors. The discriminating function of the new EMC features based on the Fisher criterion is found to be ten times larger than that...

Liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis has been successfully employed in proteome research. Data generated from LC-MS equipments usually comes with a considerable amount of noise. Thus, there is a need for the use of filters to enhance the quality of mass spectrometry chromatograms. An algorithm developed recently (CODA[2]) achieves good results in removing noise...

Computational methods are given in [3] to determine the maximum possible absolute value of each of the coe cients of the polynomials in this class when satis es some restrictions. It is also shown that there exist polynomials P and Q in the class such that each of the nonzero coe cients of P and Q have the largest possible absolute value of any polynomial in the class. The extremal polynomials ...

One major conclusion of studies in Developmental Biology during the last two decades is that, despite profound anatomical differences, the building of vertebrate and arthropod bodies relies on the same fundamental molecular networks, including conserved cell signalling and transcription-regulatory cascades. Rodent Early B-Cell Factor/Olfactory-1 and Drosophila Collier belong to a recently defin...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of treatment using collagen cross-linking agents as primer on resin-dentin bond interfaces subjected to cariogenic oral environment (COE). METHODS Each of forty human teeth had two cavities (4×4×1.5mm) prepared within enamel margins. These cavities were acid-etched and treated by the primers containing one of the following treatment agents (6.5% proanthocyani...