We present a practical and inexpensive method for creating physical objects that cast different color shadow images when illuminated by prescribed lighting configurations. The input to our system is a number of lighting configurations and corresponding desired shadow images. Our approach computes attenuation masks, which are then printed on transparent materials and stacked to form a single mul...

Online behavioural targeting is one of the most popular business strategies on the display advertising today. It is based primarily on analysing web user behavioural data with the usage of machine learning techniques with the aim to optimise web advertising. Being able to identify “unknown” and “first time seen” customers is of high importance in online advertising since a successful guess coul...

According to the research of problem of data conversion from AutoCAD to GIS, this paper analyzes the characteristics of AutoCAD data and GIS data, and finds out the comparison relationship of graphic data conversion from AutoCAD to GIS. With the aid of the component libraries of ArcEngine and ObjectARX, the research implements the graphic data conversion using c # language in .NET environment, ...

Introduction Proportional Assist Ventilation (PAV), Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) and SmartCare (SC) are new modes of ventilation that have recently become available on the market. Although these modes have numerous similarities, there are several important differences that clinicians should be aware of to ensure successful and appropriate application of each. The present paper will descri...

Many recent studies exploring conditional factor demand or factor substitution issues use firm level panel data. A considerable number of establishment panels contains no direct information on the capital input, necessary for production or cost function estimation. Incorrect measurement of capital leads to biased estimates and casts doubt on any inference on output elasticities or input substit...

Bisulfite treatment can be used to ascertain the methylation states of individual cytosines in DNA. Ideally, bisulfite treatment deaminates unmethylated cytosines to uracils, and leaves 5-methylcytosines unchanged. Two types of bisulfite-conversion error occur: inappropriate conversion of 5-methylcytosine to thymine, and failure to convert unmethylated cytosine to uracil. Conventional bisulfite...

A new plate method was developed for rapid screening of Ketogulonicigenium vulgare mutants overproducing 2-keto-l-gulonic acid (2-KLG). The screening methodology took the advantage of the acidity caused by 2-KLG, which changes the color of bromothymol blue (pH indicator) from blue to yellow. Using the proposed method, a mutant, K. vulgare 65, was selected from 20,000 colonies produced by a stra...

Binding-time analyses based on flow analysis have been presented by Bondorf, Consel, Bondorf and Jørgensen, and Schwartzbach and the present author. The analyses are formulated in radically different ways, making comparison non-trivial. In this paper we demonstrate how to compare such analyses. We prove that the first and the fourth analyses can be specified by constraint systems of a particula...

As an alternative to chromate conversion coatings, rare-earth coatings especially cerium, because of the low toxicity, have attracted considerable attention. Using dip immersion method, cerium-based conversion coating was deposited on aluminum 2024. Corrosion resistance was studied in 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution using potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and surface ...