A preceding study analysed how the topology of network motifs affects the overall rate of the underlying biochemical processes. Surprisingly, it was shown that topologically non-isomorphic motifs can still be isodynamic in the sense that they exhibit the exact same performance rate. Because of the high prevalence of feed-forward functional modules in biological networks, one may hypothesize tha...

Modularity and hierarchy are fundamental notions in structured system design. By subdividing a large and unstructured problem into smaller and tractable chunks, design automation becomes possible. In this paper we discuss the use of modularity and hierarchy for functional specialization during the development of neural networks. We study the behavioral differences and requirements for back-prop...

The state-space formalism [Elliott S. J., et al. (2007). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 2759-2771] allows one to discretize cochlear models in a straightforward matrix form and to modify the main physical properties of the cochlear model by changing the position and functional form of a few matrix elements. Feed-forward and feed-backward properties can be obtained by simply introducing off-diagonal t...

Controlled fermentation of Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) var. Beauregard by yeast, Saccharomyces boulardii (MAY 796) to enhance the nutritional value of sweet potato was investigated. An average 8.00 × 1010 Colony Forming Units (CFU)/g of viable cells were obtained over 5-day high-solid fermentation. Yeast cell viability did not change significantly over time at 4°C whereas the number of viabl...

effect of intermittent mash-pellet feeding programs on broilers performance, ascites susceptibility and economic yield was studied using 480 broilers in six treatments and five replicates of 16 chicks per pen were used in a completely randomized design. treatments including: 1. mash feed, 2. heated-mash feed, 3. mash feed in starter and grower and pellet feed in finisher, 4. mash feed in starte...

Abstract: PFC (Predictive Functional Control) is a simple but very effective SISO (Single-Input SingleOutput) predictive controller. A disturbance estimator is proposed based on PFC algorithm in case of nonmeasurable disturbances. The algorithm considers both external disturbance signal and internal, structural disturbances (process/model mismatch). Estimated disturbance feed-forward control ca...

The paper extends the use of multichannel filtered-x affine projection algorithms suitable for feed-forward active noise control to a broad class of nonlinear filter structures, which comprises also Volterra filters and Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks (FLANN). An analysis of the transient and steady-state behavior of the resulting algorithms is provided. Some experimental results tha...

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) and Jew's mallow (Corchorus olitorius leaves have several desirable characteristics as functional ingredients for the production of healthy new foods. In this study, influence extrusion conditions including material type, feed moisture content barrel temperature on techno-functional properties, phytochemical contents antioxidant activity rice-based extrudates co...