The EXCYT facility (EXotics with CYclotron and Tandem) at the INFN-LNS is under completion and its commissioning with Li as the first radioactive beam is foreseen by the end of 2004. In the following, we report the work done with an emphasis on the measured yields and production efficiencies for 8, Li

a. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, Shillong, Meghalaya-793003, India. b. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal-741235, India. c. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah-711103, In...

A recently introduced double-base number representation has proved to be successful in improving the performance of several algorithms in cryptography and digital signal processing. The index-calculus version of this number system can be regarded as a two-dimensional extension of the classical logarithmic number system. This paper builds on previous special results by generalizing the number sy...

G. X. Peng, U. Lombardo, M. Loewe, H. C. Chiang, and P. Z. Ning China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Lab.), Beijing 100080, China Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN-LNS, Via S. Sofia 44, 95123 Catania, Italy Facultad de Fisica, Ponti...

In Large Neighborhood Search (LNS), a problem is solved by repeatedly exploring (via tree search) a neighborhood of an incumbent solution. Whenever an improving solution is found, this replaces the current incumbent. LNS can improve dramatically the scalability of CP on large real world problems, provided a good neighborhood selection heuristic is available. Unfortunately, designing a neighborh...

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detecting antibody against Entamoeba histolytica was used in a survey to determine the prevalence of E. histolytica infection in the greater Tokyo area. Serum samples were collected from 1,869 randomly chosen, symptom-free volunteers (1,645 males and 224 females). Seventeen individuals (0.91%), 14 males and three females, had ELISA values that we...

The accuracy of subchloroplast location prediction algorithms often depends on predictive and succinct features derived from proteins. Thus, to improve the prediction accuracy, this paper proposes a novel SubChloroplast location prediction method, called SCHOTS, which integrates the HOmolog knowledge Transfer and feature Selection methods. SCHOTS contains two stages. First, discriminating featu...

Equations used for calculation of radioimmunoassay data are derived and compared. We show that the equation developed by Fernandez and Loeb is the most general of these. Those of Ekins et al., Hales and Randle, and Rodbard et al. are all derived here from this basic equation by neglecting certain of its terms. The logit-log plot of Rodbard et al. is a logarithmic transformation of the linear Ha...

Utilizing the Hirsch index h and some of its variants for an exploratory factor analysis we discuss whether one of the most important Hirsch-type indices, namely the g-index comprises information about not only the size of the productive core but also the impact of the papers in the core. We also study the effect of logarithmic and square-root transformation of the data utilized in the factor a...

This paper considers the problem of terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) for uncertain MIMO systems in which the actuator faults may happen in any channel of actuators. By means of state transformation and exponent-logarithmic sliding surface method, a reliable TSMC is proposed such that both the finite-time stability of sliding mode dynamics and the reachability of sliding surface are ensured,...