We study the convergence rate of MCMC on the statistically unidentifiable nonlinear model involving the Michaelis-Menten kinetic equation. We have shown that, under certain conditions, the convergence diagnosis of Raftery and Lewis (1992) is consistent with the convergence rate argued by Brooks and Roberts (1999). Therefore, different MCMC schemes developed in linear models are further extended...

Glia are the most abundant cell type in the mammalian brain. They regulate neuronal development and function, CNS immune surveillance, and stem cell biology, yet we know surprisingly little about glia in any organism. Here we identify over 40 new Drosophila glial genes. We use glial cells missing (gcm) mutants and misexpression to verify they are Gcm regulated in vivo. Many genes show unique sp...

An algorithm based on the radiance transfer model (RM) and a dynamic learning neural network (NN) for estimating water vapor content from moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS) 1B data is developed in this paper. The MODTRAN4 is used to simulate the sun-surface-sensor process with different conditions. The dynamic learning neural network is used to estimate water vapor content. Analys...

An eyetracking study testing D. L. Medin and M. M. Schaffer's (1978) 5-4 category structure was conducted. Over 30 studies have shown that the exemplar-based generalized context model (GCM) usually provides a better quantitative account of 5-4 learning data as compared with the prototype model. However, J. D. Smith and J. P. Minda (2000) argued that the GCM is a psychologically implausible acco...

We propose a new evaluation method for‘generalized confidential modulation(GCM)’ for quantum communication. Confidential modulationrealizes a secret communication by using secret information for modulationand noise in a channel. Y-00 is one of the famous methods of GCM forquantum communication. The existing evaluation methods for GCM arebased on stream ciphers. They can estimate its analytical ...

Locomotion relies on stable attachment of muscle fibres to their target sites, a process that allows for muscle contraction to generate movement. Here, we show that glide/gcm and glide2/gcm2, the fly glial cell determinants, are expressed in a subpopulation of embryonic tendon cells and required for their terminal differentiation. By using loss-of-function approaches, we show that in the absenc...

[1] Spectrally resolved outgoing radiance is a potentially powerful tool for testing climate models. To show how it can be used to evaluate the simulation of cloud variability, which is the principal uncertainty in current climate models, we apply spectral empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis to satellite radiance spectra and synthetic spectra derived from a general circulation model (G...

We participate in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program with two objectives: 1) to improve general circulation model (GCM) cloud/radiation treatment with focus on cloud vertical overlapping and layer cloud optical properties, and 2) to study the effects of cloud-radiation climate interaction on GCM climate simulations. This report summarizes the recent findings in sub-grid scale v...

These are the graphs of the diffusion property change due to planter flexion of the right ankle joint. White bars are the right to left ratio of diffusion properties including FA, λ1, λ2, λ3, and ADC at resting state. Gray bars are those at the contraction in GCM (a), and passive elongation in AT (b). In GCM, statistically significant elevations are seen in FA (P<0.05 *), λ1 (P<0.01 **), λ2 (P<...

We study the software performance of authenticated-encryption modes CCM, GCM, and OCB. Across a variety of platforms, we find OCB to be substantially faster than either alternative. For example, on an Intel i5 (“Clarkdale”) processor, good implementations of CCM, GCM, and OCB encrypt at around 4.2 cpb, 3.7 cpb, and 1.5 cpb, while CTR mode requires about 1.3 cpb. Still we find room for algorithm...