Collaborative information retrieval (CIR) and search-driven software development (SDD) are both new emerging research fields; the first one was born in response to the problem of satisfying shared information needs of groups of users that collaborate explicitly, and the second to explore source-code retrieval concept as an essential activity during software development process. Taking advantage...

Inhibitor of kB (IkB) kinase (IKK) phosphorylates IkB proteins, leading to their degradation and the liberation of nuclear factorkB forgene transcription.Herewe report the crystal structure of IKKb in complexwith an inhibitor, at a resolution of 3.6 Å. The structure reveals a trimodular architecture comprising the kinase domain, a ubiquitin-like domain (ULD) and an elongated, a-helical scaffold...

We consider sequence binary decision diagrams (sequence BDD or SDD, for short), which are compact representation for manipulating sets of strings, proposed by (Loekito, et al., Knowl. Inf. Syst., 24(2), 235-268, 2009). An SDD resembles to an acyclic DFA in binary form with different reduction rules from one for DFAs. In this paper, we study the power of SDDs for storing and manipulating sets of...

Several datasets exist which contain annotated information of individuals’ trajectories. Such are vital for many real-world applications, including trajectory prediction and autonomous navigation. One prominent dataset currently in use is the Stanford Drone Dataset (SDD) (Robicquet et al. , 201...

PURPOSE To investigate the cone photoreceptor mosaic in eyes with pseudodrusen as evidenced by the presence of subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD) and conventional drusen using adaptive optics (AO) imaging integrated into a multimodal imaging approach. DESIGN Observational case series. PARTICIPANTS Eleven patients (11 eyes) with pseudodrusen and 6 patients (11 eyes) with conventional drusen...

symmetric division deg index is one of the 148 discrete adriatic indices that showed good predictive properties on the testing sets provided by international academy of mathematical chemistry.symmetric division deg index is defined by$$sdd(g) = sume left( frac{min{d_u,d_v}}{max{d_u,d_v}} + frac{max{d_u,d_v}}{min{d_u,d_v}} right),$$where $d_i$ is the degree of vertex $i$ in graph $g$.in this pap...

The focus of this dissertation is on matrix decompositions that use a limited amount of computer memory, thereby allowing problems with a very large number of variables to be solved. Speciically, we will focus on two applications areas: optimization and information retrieval. We introduce a general algebraic form for the matrix update in limited-memory quasi-Newton methods. Many well-known meth...

OBJECTIVES Prevalences of cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae are increasing globally, especially in intensive care units (ICUs). The effect of selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD) on the eradication of cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae from the intestinal tract is unknown. We quantified eradication rates of cephalosporin-resistant and cephalosporin-susceptible Entero...

This study examined the effects of oral antibiotics to selectively decontaminate the digestive tract (SDD) on postburn myocardial signaling, inflammation, and function. We hypothesized that antibiotic therapy to eliminate pathogens from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract would reduce myocardial inflammatory responses and improve postburn myocardial performance. Sprague-Dawley rats received polymyx...

We define the notion of effective stiffness and show that it can used to build sparsifiers, algorithms that sparsify linear systems arising from finite-element discretizations of PDEs. In particular, we show that sampling O(n log n) elements according to probabilities derived from effective stiffnesses yields an high quality preconditioner that can be used to solve the linear system in a small ...