The TREC 2016 OpenSearch track is focused on ad-hoc search for scientific literature. Three scientific search engines and document repositories were part of this living lab-centered evaluation campaign: (1) CiteSeerX, (2) Microsoft Academic Search, and (3) SSOAR Social Science Open Access Repository. The authors of this paper are also responsible for the implementation of the living lab infrast...

Next to the two-component and quorum sensing systems, cell-surface signaling (CSS) has been recently identified as an important regulatory system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. CSS systems sense signals from outside the cell and transmit them into the cytoplasm. They generally consist of a TonB-dependent outer membrane receptor, a sigma factor regulator (or anti-sigma factor) in the cytoplasmic mem...

Magi 5, from the hexathelid spider Macrothele gigas, is a 29-residue polypeptide containing three disulfide bridges. It binds specifically to receptor site 4 on mammalian voltage-gated sodium channels and competes with scorpion beta-toxins, such as Css IV from Centruroides suffusus suffusus. As a consequence, Magi 5 shifts the activation voltage of the mammalian rNav1.2a channel to more hyperpo...

A graphical discrete event simulation library is proposed for system simulation that is based on interacting concurrent processes. This library works with EXTEND (Imagine That Inc), an inexpensive yet capable and easy to use simulation software package, and it is called Operational Evaluation Modeling for Context-Sensitive Systems (OpEMCSS). Context-Sensitive Systems (CSS) is a systems theory, ...

Abstract Using the analytic representation of the so-called Gazeau-Klauder coherent states(CSs), we shall demonstrate that how a new class of generalized CSs namely the family of dual states associated with theses states can be constructed through viewing these states as temporally stable nonlinear CSs. Also we find that the ladder operators, as well as the displacement type operator correspond...

In this paper, a new supervised classification paradigm, called classifier subset selection for stacked generalization (CSS stacking), is presented to deal with speech emotion recognition. The new approach consists of an improvement of a bi-level multi-classifier system known as stacking generalization by means of an integration of an estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) in the first laye...

Summer convective systems (CSs) initiated over the Tibetan Plateau identified by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) deep convection database and associated Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation for 1998–2001 have been analyzed for their basic characteristics in terms of initiation, distribution, trajectory, development, life cycle, convective intens...

Two novel particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms are used to track and optimize a 3dimensional parabolic benchmark function where the optimum location changes randomly and with high severity. The new algorithms are based on an analogy of electrostatic energy with charged particles. For comparison, the same experiment is performed with a conventional PSO algorithm. It is found that the bes...