There are now numerous agent applications that track interests of thousands of users in situations where changes occur continuously. [Shim et al., 1994] suggested that such agents can be made efficient by merging commonalities in their activities. However, past algorithms cannot merge more than 10 or 20 concurrent activities. We develop techniques so that a large number of concurrent activities...

PURPOSE This study investigates the inflammation in the anterior chamber in eyes with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) and evaluates the effect of intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation on the blood-aqueous barrier (BAB). METHODS Thirty-five patients (35 eyes) with acute primary angle closure glaucoma (APACG), 42 patients (42 eyes) with chronic primary angle closure glaucoma (CPACG), and 5...

It is challenging to obtain online solutions of large-scale integer linear programming (ILP) problems that occur frequently in slightly different forms during planning for autonomous systems. We refer to such ILP problems as repeated ILP problems. The branch-and-bound (BAB) algorithm is commonly used to solve ILP problems, and a significant amount of computation time is expended in solving nume...

Self-optimizing control is a promising method for selection of controlled variables (CVs) from available measurements. Recently, Ye et al. [2012] have proposed a globally optimal method for selection of self-optimizing CVs by converting the CV selection problem into a regression problem. In this approach, the necessary conditions of optimality (NCO) are approximated with linear combinations of ...

Over the past two decades, microbiologists have gained significant insights into the diversity and physiology of microbial communities associated with deep-sea hydrothermal systems. Much of the initial research focused on mid-ocean ridge (MOR) systems; however, because of the greater heterogeneity of vent fluid chemistry and sulfide structures from back-arc basin (BAB) systems, recent studies h...

The gold standard following segmental mandibulectomy is vascularized autologous bone graft in the form of the fibula flap. However, in bone reconstruction the use of autogenous bone does not always guarantee a successful outcome. The aim of the present investigation was to develop a novel biologically active bone (BAB) graft, and to use it for the reconstruction of large size defects of the man...

In acoustic and visual synthesis based on concatenation of speech units such as demisyllables, the recording of these units is normally taken from nonsense utterances where the demisyllable in question is pronounced in a non-focal position. In the present investigation, the relation between the lip movements in focal and non-focal position is studied and a computational model is hypothesised. 1...

Investigation of stratification in marine environments is always considered by researchers. In this study double-diffusive convection and stratification in the Bab el Mandeb strait is investigated by analyzing of field data. Measurement of seawater temperature and salinity from ARGO project (2009 to2014) and also R-V Knorr (2001) cruise with the daily average of seawater temperature and salinit...