We will establish lower bounds in terms of the level for the number of holomorphic cusp forms of weight k > 2 whose various L-functions do not vanish at the central critical point. This work generalizes the work of W. Duke [1] which was for the case of weight 2.

It is increasingly popular to represent non-rigid motion using a deforming mesh sequence: a discrete sequence of frames, each of which is given as a mesh with a common graph structure. Such sequences have the flexibility to represent a wide range of mesh deformations used in practice, but they are also highly redundant, expensive to store, and difficult to edit in a time-coherent manner. We add...

Gold nanowires functionalized for electrochemical immunosensing were prepared and demonstrated to detect prostate specific antigen (PSA) with the sensitivity required in molecular and clinical diagnostics.

The study which is reported here aims at investigating the extent to which the conceptual and representational tools provided by a lexical model designed for the semantic representation of general language may suit the requirements of knowledge modelling in a domain-specific perspective. A general linguistic ontology and a set of semantic links, which allow classifying, describing and interconn...

We describe in this paper the MUMIS Project (Multimedia Indexing and Searching Environment)1 , which is concerned with the development and integration of base technologies, demonstrated within a laboratory prototype, to support automated multimedia indexing and to facilitate search and retrieval from multimedia databases. We stress the role linguistically motivated annotations, coupled with dom...

In response to recent financial scandals (e.g. those involving Enron, Fortis, Parmalat), new regulations for protecting the society from financial and operational risks of the companies have been introduced. Therefore, companies are required to assure compliance of their operations with those new regulations as well as those already in place. Regulations are only one example of compliance sourc...

We describe a portable coaching environment used within a domain-independent inquiry-learning infrastructure. This coach reasons about a student’s knowledge and offers pertinent, domain-specific feedback. It promotes good inquiry behavior by critiquing the student’s hypotheses and supporting data and relationships among propositions. Four inquiry tutors in separate disciplines have been develop...

The verb in Bantu is a highly complex structure, in which long sequences of morphemes are not at all uncommon. However, as has long been recognized, these morphemes do not all belong to a single monolithic domain. Instead, they divide into two main groups: those that lie within the verb stem – i.e. the root, the final vowel, and any intervening extension suffixes – and those that lie outside of...