Polluted or degraded aquatic ecosystems accumulate more invasive species than less polluted areas. The alien mussel Mytella strigata (=charruana) was reported to be affecting wild spats of mussels as a dominant competitor for space on floating substrates which is native Central and South America later outspread east coast central Florida subsequently from Philippines. tremendous increase M. pop...

We revisit the S-procedure for general functions with “geometrical glasses”. thus delineate a necessary condition, and almost sufficient to have valid. Everything is expressed in terms of convexity augmented sets (i.e., via convex hulls, conical hulls) images built from data functions.

The present study was conducted to evaluate the possibility of using peanut hulls for the removal of Feand Cu from aqueous solutions.This paper incorporates the effects of dose, concentration and pH.Adsorption of heavy metal on adsorbents was found to increase on decreasing initial concentration, the sorption capacity strongly increased with pH in the range 3-4. The results showed that the remo...

The block cipher Simon has a very simple round function. This simplicity allows us to compute the correlation matrix of the round function. Despite its simplicity, Simon exhibits some very interesting phenomena with respect to linear cryptanalysis. The combination of an expanding linear function and a compressing nonlinear function creates one-round hulls. These hulls complicate the estimation ...

The chemical composition of rice hulls produced in an artisan mill and its conversion to fermentable sugars was investigated. The carbohydrate fraction represented 59.2% (w/w) of the dry hulls. Cellulose, with 36.6%, was the main component, followed by xylan with 13.9%. An important contribution of starch (8.7%) was also detected. The content of ash (19.6%) and lignin (15.5%) was comparable wit...

the objective of the study was to evaluate chemical composition, in vitro dry matter digestibility (ivdmd), and growth performance of weanling boer-goats supplemented with cowpea seed hulls (csh) and commercial concentrate / feed (cf) with natural pasture as basal diet. weanling boer-goats (n=36) were assigned to 3 treatments comprising of 4 animals each (2 bucklings and 2 females) replicated t...

FcgammaR-mediated phagocytosis of IgG-coated particles is a complex process involving the activation of multiple signaling enzymes and is regulated by the inositol phosphatases PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) and SHIP-1 (Src homology [SH2] domain-containing inositol phosphatase). In a recent study we have demonstrated that SHIP-2, an inositol phosphatase with high...

Extrapolated Vector Machines. Patrick Ha ner AT&T Labs-Research, 200 Laurel Ave, Middletown, NJ 07748 [email protected] Abstract Maximum margin classi ers such as Support Vector Machines (SVMs) critically depends upon the convex hulls of the training samples of each class, as they implicitly search for the minimum distance between the convex hulls. We propose Extrapolated Vector Machines...

To understand the (British) Royal Navy at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is necessary to appreciate the extent to which they were not a new episode for the navy but rather the latest iteration of a repeated challenge that had existed since 1689. Moreover, the navy had institutional and career continuity, and indeed to a much greater extent than its Continental rivals. As a result, it is ne...

Beginning early in the sixteenth century, English shipbuilding methods underwent a major revolution with the introduction of Mediterranean/Iberian carvel, or plank-on-frame, techniques in place of the earlier, northern European clinker or lapstrake approach. In the older method, the lower edge of each strake of the planking overlapped on the outside the upper part of the strake below, and clenc...