The natural world is a rich source of problemsolving approaches. This paper discusses the feasibility and technical challenges underlying mimicking, or analogously adapting, biological behavioral strategies to mission/flight planning for aerial vehicles engaged in planetary exploration. Two candidate concepts based on natural resource utilization and searching behaviors are adapted to technolog...

To determine why the H-2Dd antigen is expressed on the surface of transfected cells at a rate several-fold higher than an analogously transfected H-2Ld molecule, we analyzed both previously described and new H-2 hybrid genes. These genes were constructed by exchanging domains between H-2 genes. Quantitative radioimmunoassay indicates that the region of the H-2Dd molecule responsible for its enh...

In order to improve the abilities of students to write robust programs (“secure programming”) without adding new classes or material in existing classes, a Secure Programming Clinic that functions analogously to an English writing clinic has been developed. This paper reports on preliminary results from an instance of the clinic at a large university. Given the statistics obtained from this tri...

The isomorphism problem of Cayley graphs has been well studied in the literature, such as characterizations of CI (DCI)-graphs and CI (DCI)-groups. In this paper, we generalize these to vertex-transitive graphs and establish parallel results. Some interesting vertex-transitive graphs are given, including a first example of connected symmetric non-Cayley non-GI-graph. Also, we initiate the study...

This is an investigation of weakening-free fuzzy logics expanded by the delta connective D; which can be interpreted by Baaz’s projection and its generalizations. First, logical systems obtained from weakeningfree uninorm (based) logics by adding D to be interpreted by the Baaz projection are introduced. Next, expansions of the weakening-free uninorm logics with D to be interpreted by its gener...

where, compared to the time-dependent version, L is time-independent and there is no partial derivative with respect to time. This corresponds to the case where the light sources are constant over time, or change very slowly relative to the speed of light. We can define a Green’s function T s m (Xo,Xi) for the stationary case exactly analogously the time-dependent case. As Equation (1) is linea...

We show that analogously to classical probability theory the conditional expectation E ( ? ~ X ) of a fuzzy random variable Y w.r.t. a fuzzy random variable X is w.r.t. a suitable metric the best approximation o f ? by measurable functions ofX. Furthermore, several linear regression functions, i.e. best approximation of ? by linear functions o f z and examples for random LR-fuzzy numbers and Ga...

Background PER.C6 is a human cell line designed for virus production, which was immortalized by transformation with adenoviral E1A and E1B genes. Expression of E1A is known to inhibit negative regulators of cell cycle and E1B protein function analogously to an apoptosis inhibitor. As changes in cell cycle and apoptosis are likely to affect cell’s ability for viral infection and propagation, the...

New Paradigm: • Prototype Priming, i.e. RTs are measured. Learn set: • Stimuli grouped with the target according to their similarity with the prototype. • Overall 1400 presentations of stimulus samples, i.e. 700 RTs. Test set: • New stimuli. • One half grouped analogously to learn set (Sti1), the other half inversely (Sti2). • 100 presentations overall, i.e. 2x25 RTs. Control group: • No groupi...

By adopting a real options framework, we develop and analyze a production based valuation model that jointly incorporates process and market risks. Given this setting, techniques of contingent claims analysis and stochastic control theory are employed to obtain value maximizing operating policies in a constrained capacity environment. In our analysis, adjustments to operating policies are analo...