Artificial ponds or irrigated systems scattered throughout farmlands can offer important habitats for anurans and can be interesting sites for research on species resources use in a changing landscape. This study describes the diet and resource partitioning among anurans inhabiting irrigated rice fields in the Pantanal region. Twenty categories of prey were found in the stomachs of Leptodactylu...

Document retrieval is the process of matching of some sated user query against a set of free-text records (documents), its one major technique for organizing and managing information. This project was concerned with studying which of the different statistical measures in IR have the most effectiveness on document retrieval using a unified set of documents. The results show that the Cosine Simil...

BACKGROUND Exercise limitation is an important issue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and it often co-exists with obstructive sleep apnoea (overlap syndrome). This study examined the effects of nocturnal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment on walking capacity in COPD patients with or without obstructive sleep apnoea. METHODS Forty-four stable mod...

In measuring the overlap between two sets A and B (e.g. libraries, databases) one is obliged to calculate the overlap O(A|B) of A with respect to B (i.e. the fraction of elements of B that are also in A) and of O(B|A) of B with respect to A (i.e. the fraction of elements in A that are also in B). Theoretically this requires two samples. In this paper we explain that one sample can suffice to de...

We present a suite of algorithms for Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) to compute all pairwise similarities between very high-dimensional sparse vectors. All of our results are provably independent of dimension, meaning that apart from the initial cost of trivially reading in the data, all subsequent operations are independent of the dimension; thus the dimension can be very ...

In this paper design of low pass optimal block digital filter is compared with traditional low pass overlap-save block digital filter. Simulation results show that global error obtained by optimal method is lower than that obtained by traditional overlap-save method. Index Terms Block digital filters, optimum design, overlap-save method, frobenius norm, aliasing, time-varying system.

We investigated the overlap relation of the free-space Laguerre-Gaussian modes to the corresponding linearly polarized modes of a step-index fiber. To maximize the overlap for an efficient coupling of the free-space modes into a fiber, the scale-dependent overlap was theoretically and experimentally determined. The presented studies pave the way for further improvement of free-space to fiber op...

We describe a new Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm for dynamical overlap fermions, which improves the rate of topological index changes by adding an additional (intensive) term to the action for the molecular dynamics part of the algorithm. The metropolis step still uses the exact action, so that the Monte Carlo algorithm still generates the correct ensemble. By tuning this new term, we hope ...

IMPORTANCE Foods that have similar carbohydrate content can differ in the amount they raise blood glucose. The effects of this property, called the glycemic index, on risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of glycemic index and amount of total dietary carbohydrate on risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. ...

METHODS The four sets of predicted CTFPs analyzed in this paper were identified at a level of confidence deemed as appropiated by the authors of each method. These predictions, used in the main text of our paper, will hereinafter be referred to as main sets. However, predictions at other levels of confidence (higher or lower, or both) were supplied as supplementary data accompanying the papers ...