Ordered conformational changes are an important structural property of proteins and are involved in a variety of fundamental biological activities. Large-scale analyses of the implications of such changes for protein function and dysfunction require efficient methods for automated recognition of conformationally variable residue positions. The goal of this work was to study sequence and low-res...

In this paper a modified version of the Akthar’s method for online secondary path modeling in active noise control systems is proposed. The proposed method defines two variable step sizes for control filter and modeling filter. The control filter step size μm is adapted by using the variable threshold value Tj and the modeling filter step size μm is adapted by using a new modified variable step...

In this tutorial, we discuss approaches to control of one or more primary variables in a process using secondary measurements. This approach is useful when the primary variable is not easily measured, or has large time delays or lags associated with it. It is also useful when the secondary measurements contain information about disturbances that affect the primary variable. We start by discussi...

Cross-efficiency is an effective approach for evaluation of DMUs which can be performed with different secondary goals. DEA and cross-efficiency view all variables as behaving in a linear fashion and regardless of the amounts of a variable held by DMUs, DEA apply a same multiplier to those various amounts. But in certain situations this linearity assumption is not appropriate, and the conventio...

OBJECTIVE To investigate mental health dropout rates in secondary care and to identify possible associations between this variable and social, demographic, psychopathologic, and health care process-related variables. METHOD This prospective, observational study included 994 patients referred to a secondary service by four primary care units and evaluated by a specialist mental health team bet...

Previous research has shown that acyclic dependency models, if they exist, can be extracted from software quality standards and that these models can be used to assess software safety and product quality. In the case of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, the extracted dependency model can be used in a probabilistic Bayesian network context for COTS software evaluation. Furthermore, while...

This study describes the academic, social, and behavioral performance of elementary and secondary students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) receiving services in a self-contained school for students with serious behavior problems, with an emphasis on how school adjustment and problem behavior patterns predict academic performance. Results revealed that elementary and secondary grou...

Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on ins...

Reduction of Mach wave emission from a dual-stream jet is modeled via a linear temporal analysis in the frame of reference of the jet instability. The interface between the primary and secondary streams is simulated by a exible wavy wall with zero phase speed and arbitrary growth rate. The interface between the secondary and ambient streams is simulated by a vortex sheet. The secondary stream, ...

A common research task in dendroclimatology is identification of the monthly or seasonal climate signal in an annual time series of indices of ring width. A MATLAB function, seascorr, is introduced as a general statistical tool for identifying the signal. Monthly time series of primary and secondary climate variables are input to the function along with a tree-ring time series and specification...