Many features of living systems prevent application of fundamental statistical mechanics (FSM) to study these systems. The present work focuses on some of these features. By discussing all the basic approaches of FSM, the work formulates the extension of the kinetic-theory paradigm (based on the reduced one-particle distribution function) that exhibits all of the considered properties of living...

High consumption of soybean and soybean-related products is hypothesized to contribute to protection against breast cancer. Soybean is a rich source of genistein, a putative cancer chemopreventive agent. Fermented soy milk (FSM), which is made of soy milk fermented with the Bifidobacterium breve strain Yakult, contains larger amounts of the isoflavone aglycones genistein and daidzein than unfer...

The changes in a population of springbok confined to a paddock on a farm in the Karoo were ob­ served for 12 years. The observations and data on the age structure, obtained from skulls in the paddock, were used to construct a model of the population changes over the first 10 years. In the 11th year the population was severely depleted as a result of drought. Possible reasons for the magnitude o...

High-level human activity recognition is an important method for the automatic event detection and recognition application, such as, surveillance system and patient monitoring system. In this paper, we propose a human activity recognition method based on FSM model. The basic actions with their properties for each person in the interested area are extracted and calculated. The action stream with...

Defining and processing flexible queries is an important research topic in database area. We may distinguish two ways to support flexible querying in databases: (i) developing interface systems that allow queries in pseudo-natural language, or (ii) developing an extended SQL-like languages. In this paper, we have adopted this second approach. The objective of this paper is to introduce a concep...

This paper presents a self-correcting control unit design using Hamming codes for finite state machine (FSM) state encoding. The adopted technique can correct single-bit errors and detect two-bit errors in the FSM register within the same clock cycle. The main contribution is the development of a parameterizable VHDL package and the respective error-correcting modules, which can easily be added...

A stochastic model describing disease transmission dynamics for a microparasitic infection in a structured domestic animal population is developed and applied to hypothetical epidemics on a pig farm. Rational decision making regarding appropriate control strategies for infectious diseases in domestic livestock requires an understanding of the disease dynamics and risk profiles for different gro...

We report in this paper a novel hybrid approach for Urdu to Hindi transliteration that combines finite-state machine (FSM) based techniques with statistical word language model based approach. The output from the FSM is filtered with the word language model to produce the correct Hindi output. The main problem handled is the case of omission of diacritical marks from the input Urdu text. Our sy...