1. Schistocerca gregaria ion-transport peptide (Scg-ITP), a neuropeptide isolated from locust corpora cardiaca, stimulates ileal Cl~ transport (/«:) in a dose-dependent manner and causes increases in Na, K (/K) and fluid reabsorption (7V) as previously observed with crude extracts of corpus cardiacum and with cyclic AMP. Unlike cyclic AMP, ScgITP does not stimulate ileal NH4 secretion. 2. H sec...

The introduction of the multiplexer-based Actel FPGA series ACT'" resulted in an increased interest in multiplexer circuits. This paper introduces a level-by-level top-down minimization algorithm for them. The concept of a local transform is applied for the generalization of the ratio parameter method for M(1) multiplexer synthesis having one data select input and a spectral method for M ( 2 ) ...

Richomme, Saari and Zamboni (J. Lond. Math. Soc. 83: 79–95, 2011) proved that at every position of an infinite Sturmian word starts an abelian power of exponent k, for every positive integer k. Here, we improve on this result, studying the maximal exponent of abelian powers and abelian repetitions (an abelian repetition is the analogous of a fractional power in the abelian setting) occurring in...

The main goal of this paper is to explore the predictive power of dialogue context on Dialogue Act classification, both as concerns the linear context provided by previous dialogue acts, and the hierarchical context specified by conversational games. As our learning approach, we extend Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) as Feature LSA (FLSA), and combine FLSA with the k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm. ...