The occurrence of mutations is a cornerstone of the evolutionary theory of adaptation, capitalizing on the rare chance that a mutation confers a fitness benefit. Natural selection is increasingly being leveraged in laboratory settings for industrial and basic science applications. Despite increasing deployment, there are no standardized procedures available for designing and performing adaptive...

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) has become an endangered species partly because of an increase in the number of collisions with boats. A device to alert boaters of the presence of manatees is desired. Previous research has shown that background noise limits the manatee vocalization detection range (which is critical for practical implementation). By improving the signal...

| In this paper, we investigate the noise suppression performance of a novel adaptive lter based on sub-space methods. In contrast to conventional subspace lters, this approach requires no eigenvalue or singular value decomposition. Therefore, our adaptive subspace lter can be implemented for real-time operation using general purpose digital signal processors. In addition, only the noisy signal...

Muhammad Siddique Awan, Fatima Jalal, Najma Ayub, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar and Muhammad Ibrahim Rajoka* Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, PK-54078 Islamabad, Pakistan Industrial Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, P.O. Box 577, Jhang Road, PK-38000 Faisalabad, Pakistan School of Biological Science...

Zakaria Jalal, Xavier Iriart, Marie-Lou Dinet, Olivier Corneloup, Xavier Pillois, Hubert Cochet, Jean-Benoît Thambo Department of Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology, Bordeaux University Hospital, Pessac, France Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, IHU Liryc, Fondation Bordeaux Université, Pessac-Bordeaux, France Centre de recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux, INSERM, Borde...

We describe a modular HPSG implementation , based on a set of tools rather than a single monolithic engine such as ALE. With these tools we can use techniques for much faster compiling and parsing than ALE. We use two-stage grammar compilation with partial execution and a concurrent process implementation of the chart for fast parsing. We compile HPSG lexical rules into Prolog rules used at run...

Mobile (smart)phones prevail in our daily life activities, and in our research we aim for it to provide pervasive services for wellness. Therefore, we assess the phone’s feasibility to unobtrusively, continuously and in real-time track its user’s physical activity and the resulting energy expenditure (EE). Activity Level Estimator (ALE) is an Android OS application developed for that purpose. W...