We compared two methods of zona pellucida drilling. 213 embryos were biopsied with acid Tyrode. Each biopsy took 3 minutes and the entire procedure ~29 minutes. 5% of blastomeres lysed, 49% of embryos became blastocyst and 36% of patients became pregnant. 229 embryos were biopsied with laser. Each biopsy took 30 seconds and the entire procedure ~7 minutes. 2.5% of blastomeres lysed, 50.6% of em...

The Australian Air Quality Forecasting System (AAQFS) is a joint project between the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, CSIRO Energy Technology, the Environment Protection Authority Victoria and the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority to develop a highresolution numerical air quality forecasting system. Currently 24 to 36-hour forecasts are produced in both Melbourn...

ii Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge and thank my major professor Dr. Gerald LaHoste for his help in this project. I would also like to extend thanks to Dr. Laura Harrison and Dr. David Ruskin for all of their advice and help in the completion of this project. I would also like to say thank-you to everyone at UNO for making my years here very enjoyable and I wish everyone the best in...

We show that the families (k, r)–RBC of languages accepted (in quasi-realtime) by one-way counter automata having k blind counters of which r are reversalbounded form a strict and linear hierarchy of semi-AFLs. This hierarchy comprises the families BLIND = M∩(C1) of blind multicounter languages with generator C1 := {w ∈ {a1, b1} ∗ | |w|a1 = |w|b1} and RBC = M∩(B1) of reversal-bounded multicount...

Building off of our interpretations of supervised learning as (1) choosing a representation for our problem, (2) choosing a loss function, and (3) minimizing the loss, let us consider a slightly more general formulation for supervised learning. In the supervised learning settings we have considered thus far, we have input data x ∈ R and targets y from a space Y . In linear regression, this corr...

So far, we’ve mainly been talking about learning algorithms that model p(y|x; θ), the conditional distribution of y given x. For instance, logistic regression modeled p(y|x; θ) as hθ(x) = g(θ T x) where g is the sigmoid function. In these notes, we’ll talk about a different type of learning algorithm. Consider a classification problem in which we want to learn to distinguish between elephants (...

Experimental Biology and Medicine Antonis Kirmizis and Peggy J. Farnham Genes Genomic Approaches That Aid in the Identification of Transcription Factor Target 2004, 229:705-721. Experimental Biology and Medicine http://ebm.rsmjournals.com/content/229/8/705 Updated information and services can be found at: http://ebm.rsmjournals.com/content/229/8/705#BIBL This article cites 117 articles, 57 of w...