We report on the discovery of HAT-P-12b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the moderately bright V ≈ 12.8 K4 dwarf GSC 03033-00706, with a period P = 3.2130598 ± 0.0000021 d, transit epoch Tc = 2454419.19556± 0.00020 (BJD) and transit duration 0.0974± 0.0006d. The host star has a mass of 0.73 ± 0.02M⊙, radius of 0.70 +0.02 −0.01R⊙, effective temperature 4650 ± 60K and metallicity [Fe/H ] ...

This work has examined cobalt(II) binding by a variety of solid humic acids (HAs) isolated from peat, plant and soil sources at temperatures down to 60K. The results confirm that X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) measurements cannot distinguish between aquo and carboxylato ligands in the inner coordination sphere of Co(II). However, between 1 and 2 inner-sphere carboxylato ligands...

Ideas involving employee initiative from within large corporations which are out of sequence with the normal funding cycle often encounter significant resistance. In order to identify the critical factors, a multi-company intervention was developed. Start-up funding from $60K to over $1,100K was obtained for 20 of the 34 projects at the end of the 12 week intervention. Choosing a project with h...

We report the detection of the (J,K) = (1,1), (2,2), and (3,3) inversion lines of ammonia (NH3) towards the south–western molecular lobe in M82. The relative intensities of the ammonia lines are characterized by a rotational temperature of Trot = 29 ± 5K which implies an average kinetic temperature of Tkin ≈ 60K. A Gaussian decomposition of the observed spectra indicates increasing kinetic temp...

We assessed a scenario designed to mimic the imputation of full genome sequence data in White layer chickens, genotyped at medium (60K) density. Factors affecting accuracy were the size of the reference population, the level of the relationship between the reference and test populations and minor allele frequency of the SNP being imputed. Genotype imputation based on 22 or 62 carefully selected...

High dimensional engineered features have yielded high performance results on a variety of visual recognition tasks and attracted significant recent attention. Here, we examine the problem of expression recognition in static facial images. We first present a technique to build high dimensional, ∼60k features composed of dense Census transformed vectors based on locations defined by facial keypo...

Context-dependent acoustic models have been applied in speech recognition research for many years, and have been shown to increase the recognition accuracy signi cantly. The most common approach is to use triphones. Recently, several speech recognition groups have started investigating the use of larger phonetic context windows when building acoustic models. In this paper we discuss some of the...

In this paper, we present an e cient calculation of the factored LM probabilities for speeding up the large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. We introduced a novel technique based on the independent calculation of the factored LM probability. The basic idea of the proposed method is that each factored LM probability is calculated on-demand for a new combination of a previous word hypoth...

Abstract. The purpose of this research was to develop and evaluate effervescent gastric floating tablets of propranolol HCl. The oral delivery of antihypertensive propranolol HCl was facilitated by preparing an effervescent floating dosage form which could increase its absorption in the stomach by increasing the drug's gastric residence time. In the present work, effervescent floating tablets w...

We investigate the physical reasons underlying the high monodispersity of empty virus capsids assembled in thermodynamical equilibrium in conditions of favorable pH and ionic strength. We propose that the high fidelity of the assembly results from the effective spontaneous curvature of the viral protein assemblies and the corresponding bending rigidity that penalizes curvatures which are larger...