The earliest more or less datable events in South Asia’s cultural history, the deathof the Buddha and the composition of Pāṇini’s grammar – respectively five andfour centuries before the beginning of the common era – antedate with one to twocenturies the start of a slow and hesitant shift from orality to the writtentransmission of sacred and literary texts in South Asia. Wit...

This thesis presents a new representation called floating polygon soup for applicationslike 3DTV and FTV (Free Viewpoint Television). The polygon soup is designed forcompactness, compression efficiency, and view synthesis quality. The polygons arestored in 2D, with depth values at each corner. They are not necessarily connected toeach other and can be deformed (or floated) w.r.t...

We regret to report that a proofreading error caused an incorrect legend and description of the contents of table 6 to appear in our original publication of this work. The correct description of table 6 is: Univariate analysis of prognostic factors for 5-year nadir + 2 biochemical outcome for men presenting with intermediate risk factors. CorrectionWe regret to report that a proofreading er...

This paper investigates mental workloadassessment using statistical features derived fromelectroencephalography (EEG) signals. Mean, root meansquared, and correlation-based features are extracted from dataincluding EEG signal recordings of five participants performinga reading task with three difficulty levels of low, medium, andhigh and a baseline condition. Results rev...

The Elements of Automatic SummarizationbyDaniel Jacob GillickDoctor of Philosophy in Computer ScienceUniversity of California, BerkeleyProfessor Nelson Morgan, Chair This thesis is about automatic summarization, with experimental results on multi-document news topics: how to choose a series of sentences that best represents a col-lection of articles about one topic. ...

In this paper we review the modeling of the Local Bubble (LB) with special emphasis on the progress we have made since the last major conference “The Local Bubble and Beyond (I)” held in Garching in 1997. Since then new insight was gained into the possible origin of the LB, with a moving group crossing its volume during the last 10 15 Myr being most likely responsible for creating a local cavit...

In this paper we consider multiperiod mixed 0–1 linear programming models underuncertainty. We propose a risk averse strategy using stochastic dominance con-straints (SDC) induced by mixed-integer linear recourse as the risk measure. TheSDC strategy extends the existing literature to the multistage case and includesboth first-order and second-order constraints. We propose a stoc...

The present report is the outcome of Project "Scientific and technical contribution to the development of an overall health strategy in thearea of GMOs" carried out by the Biotechnology & GMOs Unit of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (Joint Research Centre) inthe frame of contract CT 30249, requested by the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. ...

A total of 4,076 pigs (initially 86.5 ± 1.24 lb) were used across 2 experiments to evaluate the effect increasing ratios Val, Ile, and Trp Lys on pig growth performance carcass characteristics in corn-soybean meal-DDGS-based diets containing increased levels dietary Leu:Lys. In both experiments, 4 treatments as follows: 1) high soybean meal low feed grade amino acids (control); 2) acids, with V...

The proteolytic activity of three Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, ATCC 27853 - a reference strain, and two clinical isolates was tested. The activity was examined after culturing the bacteria in two different growth media: the minimal M9 medium and rich Luria-Bertani broth (LB). Based on zymograms and protease activity specific assays, it was concluded that the reference strain produced three p...