Libraries of phages displaying diverse peptides are typically surveyed by affinity selection, using immobilized biomolecules as selectors. After exposing the library to the selector and washing away unbound phages, the bound phages are enriched for clones displaying selector binding peptides. Those phages are recovered by release from the selector and propagation in fresh host cells. Release is...

Aspect Oriented Programming is an increasingly popular approach used to increase the modu-larity of applications. The Compose* project implements an aspect oriented programming language based on the .NET platform. By using the Common Language Infrastructure defined by .NET it is independent of a particular implementation language. Using Compose*, it is possible to define concerns that superimpo...

This paper considers the radar scenes which contain numerous rapidly changing terrains, i.e., there are more than one clutter-edge in the environment. This kind of radar scenes incurs sharply degradation in the performance of the present adaptive constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors as the statistical characteristic of reference cells is highly heterogeneous. To solve this problem, we pro...

Kernel estimation of a density based on contaminated data is considered and the important issue of how to choose the bandwidth parameter in practice is discussed. Some plug-in (PI) type of bandwidth selectors, which are based on non-parametric estimation of an approximation of the mean integrated squared error, are proposed. The selectors are a re4nement of the simple normal reference bandwidth...

We investigate methods for exploiting nondeterminism inherent within the Tile Assembly Model in order to generate uniform random numbers. Namely, given an integer range {0, . . . , n− 1}, we exhibit methods for randomly selecting a number within that range. We present three constructions exhibiting a trade-off between space requirements and closeness to uniformity. The first selector selects a ...

Behavior trees (BTs) emerged from video game development as a graphical language for modeling intelligent agent behavior. However as initially implemented, behavior trees are static plans. This paper adds to recent literature exploring the ability of BTs to adapt to their success or failure in achieving tasks. The “Selector” node of a BT tries alternative strategies (its children) and returns s...

We describe PieceMaker, a software tool for the design of applications of selector probes-oligonucleotide probes that direct circularization of target nucleic acid molecules. Such probes can be combined in parallel to circularize a selection of fragments from restriction digested total genomic DNA. These fragments can then be amplified in a single PCR using a common primer pair, yielding substr...

Abstract: We propose a general family of algorithms for regression estimation with quadratic loss, on the basis of geometrical considerations. These algorithms are able to select relevant functions into a large dictionary. We prove that a lot of methods that have already been studied for this task (LASSO, Dantzig selector, Iterative Feature Selection, among others) belong to our family, and exh...

Schema matching is one of the main challenges in different information system integration contexts. Over the past 20 years, different schema matching methods have been proposed and shown to be successful in various situations. Although numerous advanced matching algorithms have emerged, schema matching research remains a critical issue. Different algorithms are implemented to resolve different ...