This paper describes a library of parameterized arithmetic operators for manipulating high-dynamic numbers on FPGA. It support both floating-point and logarithmic representations. Along with its direct interest, that library allow application-specific comparisons of those two number representation systems. It is unbiased in the sense that it tends to reflect the state-of-the-art for both number...

BACKGROUND Burkholderia cepacia is a Gram-negative pathogen that causes serious respiratory infections in immunocompromised patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis. This bacterium is known to release extracellular proteins that may be involved in virulence. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In the present study, B. cepacia grown to mid-logarithmic and early-stationary phases were investiga...

The notion of the thermodynamic entropy in context quantum mechanics is a controversial topic. Although there were proposals to refer von Neumann as entropy, it has its own limitations. observational been developed generalization Boltzmann and presently one most promising candidates provide clear well-defined understanding mechanics. In this paper, we study behavior localization-delocalization ...

The damping capacity and mechanical properties of Mg-6Al-1Zn alloy after heat treatment were investigated. The damping characteristics of un-heat-treated, solution treated, and aged Mg-6Al-1Zn specimens were determined by measuring the damping ratio and the logarithmic decrement of free vibrations of a bending beam clamped at one side. The microstructural evaluations confirmed that the β-Mg17Al...

We investigate a simple model that generates random partitions of the leaf set of a tree. Of particular interest is the reconstruction question: what number k of independent samples (partitions) are required to correctly reconstruct the underlying tree (with high probability)? We demonstrate a phase transition for k as a function of the mutation rate, from logarithmic to polynomial dependence o...

Tolerance to penicillin was investigated in 40 isolates of optochin-resistant, alpha-haemolytic streptococci. Thirteen strains exhibited tolerance to penicillin (MBC:MIC ratio greater than or equal to 32) when stationary phase inocula were used, but only seven strains retained the tolerance phenotype in experiments with logarithmic phase inocula. There was a striking association between toleran...

The genome sequencing of several Leishmania species has provided immense amounts of data and allowed the prediction of the metabolic pathways potentially operating. Subsequent genetic and proteomic studies have identified stage-specific proteins and putative virulence factors but many aspects of the metabolic adaptations of Leishmania remain to be elucidated. In this study, we have used an unta...

This paper presents a novel Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging (ISAR) algorithm based on a new sparse prior, known as the logarithmic Laplacian prior. The newly proposed logarithmic Laplacian prior has a narrower main lobe with higher tail values than the Laplacian prior, which helps to achieve performance improvement on sparse representation. The logarithmic Laplacian prior is used for I...

The nutritional requirements generally satisfied by serum in established cultures of human hematopoietic cells were studied in spinner culture. The optimum concentration of fetal calf serum for cell proliferation in medium RPMI #1640 appeared to be 20%, and the minimum to be 2%. In the logarithmic phase of cell growth, there was an exponential increase of protein in the cells and a correspondin...