Nowadays, geographical resources (both data and applications) are increasingly being accessible via search engines or web services. As a consequence, users must choose among a set of available resources the ones that best fit their needs. However, users neophytes are currently unable to determine a priori (i.e., before acquisition and use), whether a resource is adequate for its intended usage....

In ORFEUS II spectra of the sdO star BD +39 3226 interstellar hydrogen and deuterium is detected. From Ly α profile fitting and a curve of growth analysis of the Lyman se

We have fabricated single-Cooper-pair transistors in which the spatial profile of the superconducting gap energy was controlled by oxygen doping. The profile dramatically affects the switching current vs gate voltage curve of the transistor, changing its period from 1e to 2e. A model based on nonequilibrium quasiparticles in the leads explains our results, including the observation that even de...

Oligonucleotide microarrays were used to profile directly extracted rRNA from environmental microbial populations without PCR amplification. In our initial inspection of two distinct estuarine study sites, the hybridization patterns were reproducible and varied between estuarine sediments of differing salinities. The determination of a thermal dissociation curve (i.e., melting profile) for each...

Experiments where the response of interest is a curve or “profile” arise in a variety of applications in engineering practice. In a recent paper (Journal of Quality Technology, 44, 2, pp. 117-135, 2012) a mixed effects, bayesian approach was proposed for the bayesian optimization of profile response systems, where a particular shape of the profile response defines desired properties of the prod...

Figure 1. Demonstration of outlier detection based on a simulation data. (a) shows the noise-free peanut-shaped ADC spatial profile obtained from a 2D tensor. (b) depicts results with an extreme outlier. The dotted line represents the measurement data, while the solid line is the fitted ADC profile. (c) shows the error map between the measured ADC and the fitted ADC signals. It clearly demonstr...

We consider two-dimensional Schroedinger operators with an attractive potential in the form of a channel fixed profile built along unbounded curve composed circular arc and two straight semi-lines. Using test-function argument help parallel coordinates outside cut-locus curve, we establish existence discrete eigenvalues. This is special variant recent result Exner non-smooth case via different ...

BACKGROUND No clear consensus has been reached yet on how best to characterize children who suffer from pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD). The CBCL-PBD profile on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) has been consistently reported showing deviant findings on the Attention Problems, Aggressive Behavior, and Anxious-Depressed subscales. AIM To examine the sensitivity and specificity of the propos...

A method for face recognition using profile images based on the scale-space filtering is presented in this paper. A grey-level image of profile is thresholded to produce a binary, black and white image, the black corresponding to face region. A pre-processing step then extracts the outline curve of the front portion of the silhouette that bounds the face image. From this curve, a set of twelve ...