Dependence analysis is an important approach to analyzing, understanding, testing and maintaining programs. T his paper develops a new kind of dependence analysis method for recursive Java programs. In our method, the program dependence graph (PDG) of a Java program consists of a set of PDGs that are not connected. They interact with each other by dependences among parameters. Thus, t he inter-...

A new approach is described for measuring chemical shift anisotropy (CSA)/dipolar cross-correlated relaxation (CCR) rates based on the selection of the individual 15N doublet components prior to the relaxation period. The method uses the spin-state-selective element (S3E) of Sørensen and co-authors [Meissner et al. (1997) J. Mag. Reson., 128, 92-97]. The main advantage of the new method compare...

We present a new approach to efficiently compute effects of sound occlusion and diffraction by obstacles in general virtual acoustic environments. Based on the Fresnel-Kirchoff approximation to diffraction, our method uses a 3D model of the environment and computer graphics hardware to evaluate diffraction effects between a sound source and a receiver position. No further hypothesis is needed o...

A new method to detect the identity of unexpected antibodies in the sera of prospective transfusion recipients is presented. The method is based on a macroscopic hemagglutination inhibition assay. In this assay, incubation of phenotypically defined test red blood cells with patient sera containing non-agglutinating antibodies to one or more specific antigen systems block monoclonal IgM inductio...

Objective: Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) is the largest genus of vascular plants in the world, that comprises an estimated number of 2900 annual and perennial species. The members of this genus have a broad spectrum of usages (e.g. medicine, food, fodder, fuel, ornamental plants, etc.). Here, we present a review of ethnobotanical applications of different species of Astragalus by various ethnic and ...

H-Y (male) antigen was visually located on mouse sperm by electron microscopy, by use of the indirect hybrid antibody method and tobacco mosaic virus as the visual marker. Labeling was achieved by centrifugation of the sperm through a discontinuous gradient consisting of alternating layers of immune reagents and wash solutions. Treated sperm were examined topographically by preparation of plati...

The AGDISP aerial spray simulation model is used to predict the deposition of spray material released from an aircraft. Determining the optimal input values to AGDISP in order to produce a desired spray material deposition is extremely difficult (NP hard). SAGA, an intelligent optimization method based on the simple genetic algorithm, was developed to solve this problem. Our project is the subs...

We present the LIMSI submission to the Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking task of SemEval-2015. The system exploits the parallelism of the multilingual test data and uses translations as source of indirect supervision for sense selection. The LIMSI system gets best results in English in all domains and shows that alignment information can successfully guide disambiguation...