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The bifurcation diagram of a truncation to six degrees of freedom of the equations for quasi-geostrophic, baroclinic flow is investigated. Period doubling cascades and Shil’nikov bifurcations lead to chaos in this model. The low dimension of the chaotic attractor suggests the possibility to reduce the model to three degrees of freedom. In a physically comprehensible limit of the parameters this...

The Ames II Salmonella mutagenicity assay procedure was used to test 71 chemicals, and the results were compared with those from the traditional Ames Salmonella test using the NTP database as the reference. All Ames II tests were performed using a fluctuation procedure in microplate format, using TAMix for the detection of base pair substitutions and TA98 to detect frameshift mutations. There w...

olimus induces proteinuria and renal deterioration in the remnant kidney model in the rat. Transplantation 2007; 84: 1492–1499 29. Schena FP, Pascoe MD, Alberu J et al. Sirolimus CONVERT Trial Study Group. Conversion from calcineurin inhibitors to sirolimus maintenance therapy in renal allograft recipients: 24-month efficacy and safety results from the CONVERT trial. Transplantation 2009; 87: 2...

Levialdl [6J introduced a parallel synchronous algorithm for counting the number of connected components in a binary image embedded in an n X n mesh of processors that runs in time O(n). We describe a parallel asynchronous algorithm for the same problem achieving the same time bound. ·Research done while visiting the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California, research suppo...

This paper presents a novel algorithm that modifies the speech uttered by a source speaker to sound as if produced by a target speaker. In particular, we address the issue of transformation of the vocal tract characteristics from one speaker to another. The approach is based on estimating spectral envelopes using radial basis function (RBF) networks, which is one of the well-known models of art...