Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects millions of people worldwide, and new cases continue to emerge. Once infected, the virus cannot be cleared by the immune system and causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Combination antiretroviral therapeutic regimen effectively suppresses viral replication and halts disease progression. The treatment, however, does not eliminate the virus-infecte...

This paper deals with a new technique for automatic segmentation of unconstrained handwritten connected numerals. To take care of variability involved in the writing style of different individuals a robust scheme is presented here. The scheme is mainly based on features obtained from a concept based on water reservoir. A reservoir is a metaphor to illustrate the region where numerals touch. Res...

Chronology is a necessary component of paleoclimatology. Radiocarbon dating plays a central role in determining the ages of geological samples younger than ca. 50 ka BP. However, there are many limitations for its application, including radiocarbon reservoir effects, which may cause incorrect chronology in many lakes. Here we demonstrate temporal changes in the radiocarbon reservoir age of Lake...

We explore the consequences of a deterministic microscopic thermostat-reservoir contact mechanism for hard disks where the collision rule at the boundary is modified. Numerical evidence and theoretical argument is given that suggests that an energy balance is achieved for a system of hard disks in contact with two reservoirs at equal temperatures. This system however produces entropy near the t...

This paper presents a genetic algorithm GA model for obtaining an optimal operating policy and optimal crop water allocations from an irrigation reservoir. The objective is to maximize the sum of the relative yields from all crops in the irrigated area. The model takes into account reservoir inflow, rainfall on the irrigated area, intraseasonal competition for water among multiple crops, the so...

Mita is a moderate temperature geothermal system that was discovered in 1997 during gold exploration in south-eastern Guatemala. This system is associated with bimodal basaltrhyolite volcanism, and occurs alongside (and overlapping with) the Cerro Blanco 2 million ounce epithermal gold deposit. Four 1000-1500m deep slim holes were drilled in 2008-09 to confirm the nature of the deep reservoir. ...

System identification of highly nonlinear dynamical systems, important for reducing time complexity in long simulations, is not trivial using more traditional methods such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained with back-propagation through time. The recently introduced Reservoir Computing (RC) ∗ approach to training RNNs is a viable and powerful alternative which renders fast training and...

Reservoir Computing is a framework for computation like a recurrent neural network that allows for the black box modeling of dynamical systems. In contrast to other recurrent neural network approaches, Reservoir Computing does not train the input and internal weights of the network, only the readout is trained. However it is necessary to adjust parameters to create a ”good” reservoir for a give...

physical and chemical properties of  crude oil, including viscosity and api gravity, are commonly inherited  from the  early organic matter, environmental conditions in which they were deposited and depth of burial of the source beds. api gravity increases in deeper burial due to higher thermal maturation of organic matter in the source rocks and consequently, generation of lighter saturated hy...