Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) use context data to enhance their recommendation outcomes by providing more personalized recommendations. Context modelling is a basic procedure towards this direction since it models the contextual parameters to be used during the recommendation process. Most literature works however build domain specific contextual models that only represent informatio...

Microalgae are extensively researched as potential feedstocks for biofuel production. Energy-rich compounds in microalgae, such as lipids, require efficient characterization techniques to investigate the metabolic pathways and the environmental factors influencing their accumulation. The model green alga Coccomyxa accumulates significant amounts of triacylglycerols (TAGs) under nitrogen depleti...

A simple model is presented as an aid in understanding, first, the relative noise performance and, second, the noise reduction achievable by referencing, in different experimental approaches to single shot broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). Qualitative agreement is obtained with previous experimental investigations of CARS noise. The broadband dye laser radiation is describ...

In the freight car dispatching problem empty freight cars have to be assigned to known demands respecting a given time horizon and certain constraints. The goal is to minimize the resulting transportation costs. One of the constraints is that customers can specify the type of cars they want. It is possible, however, that cars of certain types can be substituted by other cars, either in a 1-to-1...

We study a model of vehicular traffic flow represented by a coupled system formed by a scalar conservation law, describing the evolution of cars density, and an ODE, whose solution is the position of a moving bottleneck, i.e. a slower vehicle moving inside the cars flow. A fractional step approach is used to approximate the coupled model and convergence is proved by compactness arguments. Final...

Traffic flow on a unidirectional roadway in the presence of traffic lights is modeled. Individual car responses to green, yellow, and red lights are postulated and these result in rules governing the acceleration and deceleration of individual cars. The essence of the model is that only specific cars are directly affected by the lights. The other cars behave according to simple follow-the-leade...

A custom built coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscope was used to image prostatic glands and nerve structures from 17 patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. Imaging of glandular and nerve structures showed distinctive cellular features that correlated to histological stains. Segmentation of cell nucleus was performed to establish a cell feature-based model to separate norma...

Inspired by the need for efficient traffic control in urban areas, we study the problem of minimizing the longest queue length in traffic networks. In our model cars only move forward and do not overtake each other and time is divided in rounds of a given length. Cars always cross intersections when they have the green signal and they are at the front of the queue, otherwise they wait. Each car...

Rush Hour Logic was introduced in [2] as a model of computation inspired by the \Rush Hour" toy puzzle, in which cars can move horizontally or vertically within a parking lot. The authors show how the model supports polynomial space computation, using certain car con gurations as building blocks to construct boolean circuits for a cpu and memory. They consider the use of cars of length 3 crucia...