Plants from a handful of species provide the primary source of food for all people, yet this source is vulnerable to multiple stressors, such as disease, drought, and nutrient deficiency. With rapid population growth and climate uncertainty, the need to produce ...

Recent findings have demonstrated that emotional prosody (EP) attracts attention involuntarily (Grandjean et al., 2008). The automat shift of attention toward emotionally salient stimuli can be overcome by attentional control (Hahn et al., 2010). Attentional control is impaired in schizophrenia, especially in schizophrenic patients with hallucinations because the "voices" capture attention incr...

The development of techniques for the design of control systems using feedback is of considerable practical importance. In particular, it is desirable to know whether or not it is possible to have inputs control out. puts independently, i.e., a single input influences a single output. The publication has been cited so frequently because it provides a complete solution to this “decoupling” probl...

BACKGROUND/AIM The consequences of fungal contamination of an organ cultured cornea, though exceptional, are often disastrous for the recipient. Consequently, eye banks often quarantine corneas for 10 days or more before passing them for grafting. This period, though detrimental to the endothelial cell density of the delivered cornea, is necessary to detect contamination using conventional micr...

1285 small parameter " > 0, has been established. This proposition is based on the assumption of the stabilizability of the boundary-layer system. It was also shown that this connection is only one-direction valid, i.e., the controllability of the reduced-order and boundary-layer systems always yields the controllability of the original system, but not vice versa. The criterion of the impulse-f...

We describe a facility that enables routine type checking during the linkage of exter nal declarations and de nitions of separately compiled programs in ANSI C The primary advantage of our server style type checked linkage facility is the ability to program the composition of object modules via a suite of strongly typed module combination opera tors Such programmability enables one to easily in...

In this age of computers, virtually all spheres of human life including commerce, government, academics, hospitals, crime prevention, surveillance, engineering, architecture, journalism, fashion and graphic design, and historical research use images for efficient services. In the medical profession, X-rays and scanned image database are kept for diagnosis, monitoring, and research purposes. In ...

Natural language experiments in information retrieval have often been inconclusive due to the lack of large text bases with associated queries and relevance judgments. This paper describes experiments in incremental query processing and indexing with the INQUERY information retrieval system on the TIPSTER queries and document collection. The results measure the value of processing tailored for ...

PURPOSE The presence of tumor cells in bone marrow has been reported to represent an important prognostic indicator in breast cancer, but the clinical significance of circulating cells in peripheral blood is less well known. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of identifying cytokeratin (CK)-expressing cells in peripheral blood with an automat-assisted immunohistochemical dete...

-Certain classes of elementary operations on the system matrix of a linear system are defined, and then their use IS illustrated for the calculation of canonical forms, the largest (A,B)-mvarmnt and controllablhty subspaces in ker(C), transmission zeros, and minimal inverses Questions of numerical accuracy are discussed The results are directly codable as efficient numerical algorithms, and may...