Max is the central component of the Myc/Max/Mad network of transcription factors that regulate growth, differentiation and apoptosis. Whereas the Myc and Mad genes and proteins are highly regulated, Max expression is constitutive and no post-translational regulation is known. We have found that Max is targeted during Fas-induced apoptosis. Max is first dephosphorylated and subsequently cleaved ...

During the past three years IRCAM has developed the IRCAM Musical Workstation (IMW). Recently we have begun work on musical tools and the realization of music with the system. Miller Puckette has written a version of MAX for the IMW which includes signal processing objects, as well as the standard objects found in the Macintosh version of MAX (including MIDI objects). The MAX environment for th...

A previous study has suggested that complex cells perform a MAX-like operation on their inputs: when two bar stimuli are presented within the receptive field, regardless of their relative separation, the cell's response is similar in amplitude to the larger of the responses elicited by the individual stimuli. This description of complex cells seems at odds with the classical energy model in whi...

We develop simple heuristics, called \MAX" and \MAX-LD", to nd a sub-optimal solution for scheduling data for periodic wireless broadcasts. We also develop a lower bound for a branch-and-bound algorithm, which we call \B&B", to determine the optimal layout for the broadcast. We evaluate these algorithms experimentally and show that B&B runs considerably faster than exhaustive enumeration while ...

Two stochastic optimization methods: Cross Entropy (CE) and Parametric Minimum Cross Entropy (PME) were tested against Large Max-Cut problems. The problems were taken from the "The DIMACS Library of Mixed Semidefinite-Quadratic-Linear Programs" challenge web site. The two methods achieved close and even better results than the Best Known Solution. In addition to results presentation, several im...

SIGNALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT ARE RARELY SPECIFIED EXACTLY: our visual system may know what to look for (e.g., a specific face), but not its exact configuration (e.g., where in the room, or in what orientation). Uncertainty, and the ability to deal with it, is a fundamental aspect of visual processing. The MAX model is the current gold standard for describing how human vision handles uncertainty: ...

In this paper we consider a class of partially observed dynamic systems with measurement uncertainty and present a technique for design of optimal linear output feedback controls to minimize the maximum risk. This is then extended to cover systems with uncertainty in the measurement as well as in the dynamics. These results are presented in the form of necessary conditions of optimality. Theore...

We compare the performance of 3 approaches to the solution of MAX-SAT problems, including a version of the DavisPutnam-Loveland algorithm extended to solve MAX-SAT, an integer programming branch-and-cut algorithm and an algorithm for MAX-2-SAT problems based on a semide nite programming relation.