We present an estimation-based approach to the design of adaptive IIR filters. We also use this approach to design adaptive filters when a feedback signal from the output of the adaptive filter contaminates the reference signal. We use an H, criterion to cast the problem as a nonlinear H, filtering problem, and present an approximate linear H, filtering solution. This linear filtering solution ...

Activation of the purified guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory component (G/F) of adenylate cyclase by F- requires the presence of Mg2+ and another factor. This factor, which contaminates commercial preparations of various nucleotides and disposable glass test tubes, has been identified as Al3+. In the presence of 10 mM Mg2+ and 5 mM F-, AlCl3 causes activation of G/F with an apparent activat...

[1] The scattering of solar radiation by cirrus clouds often contaminates aerosol products retrieved from satellite-based measurements using channels located in the visible and near-IR spectral region. Previously, it was demonstrated that a narrow satellite channel located near 1.38 mm is very effective in detecting the high level thin cirrus clouds. In this paper, we describe a ratio technique...

Soil Fungi May Help in Lead Remediation Lead contaminates soil in many urban areas. Investigators have discovered that lead can be transformed by multiple soil fungi into a stable form known as chloropyromorphite, suggesting a potential new tool for cleaning up soil lead contamination. This ability of the fungi may help them to survive in contaminated locations. The authors write that “fungal m...

We have obtained J band (1.2 μm) polarimetry observations of the circumbinary disk around UY Aurigae with the University of Hawaii 36 element adaptive optics instrument, Hokupa'a, at the 3.6 m CFHT. The deep (120 min), high resolution (0.15") polarization map reveals a centrosymmetric polarization signature from the light scattered off the circumbinary dust disk which is ~106 times fainter than...

An unwanted side effect of reversible color space transformation, usually being a sequence of lifting steps, is that while removing correlation it contaminates transformed components with noise from other components. To remove correlation without increasing noise, we integrate denoising into the lifting steps and obtain a reversible image component transformation. For JPEG-LS, JPEG2000, and JPE...

This specimen was presented as a blood culture (bacteremia) isolate and was to be identified and tested for antimicrobial susceptibility. The culture contained a Staphylococcus epidermidis, a common isolate from blood cultures, some being considered skin contaminates. High rates of methicillin resistance are observed in coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) such as S. epidermidis, thus requir...

density-gradient centrifugation. ISCO fractionator scanning patterns indicated a high degree of purity but serological results revealed the presence of some host contaminates. The yield of virus was abeut 2mgfleOg of bro'ad bean leaves. The titer of the antiserum against isolate No. 30 was 1!2048 by ring precipitin tests. Although the iutact virus particles could n6t diffuse in agar gel plates,...

We address the distinction between dynamical and additive noise in time series analysis by making a joint evaluation of both the statistical continuity of the series and the statistical differentiability of the reconstructed measure. Low levels of the latter and high levels of the former indicate the presence of dynamical noise only, while low values of the two are observed as soon as additive ...

We have studied the degree to which fluorescent Ca(2+) indicator dyes, and green fluorescent protein and its variants, can be used together. We find that the most commonly used fluorescent protein, enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), seriously contaminates fura 2 signals. We suggest two alternative combinations for which there is no detectable contamination of the Ca(2+) indicator signal...