Significant power conversion efficiency improvements have recently been achieved for thin-film solar cells based on a variety of polycrystalline absorbers, including perovskites, CdTe, and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS). The passivation of grain boundaries (GBs) through (post-deposition) treatments is a crucial step for this success. For the case of CIGS, the introduction of a potassium fluoride post-depo...

Anxiety is an instinct that may have developed to promote adaptive survival by evading unnecessary danger. However, excessive anxiety is disruptive and can be a basic disorder of other psychiatric diseases such as depression. The KF-1, a ubiquitin ligase located on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), may prevent excessive anxiety; kf-1(-/-) mice exhibit selectively elevated anxiety-like behavior ag...

Recently, researchers have tried to apply ILP to KDD because ILP enlarges the applicability of Machine Learning to cover KDD and Data Mining: it enables them to learn from multiple relational tables. Many scienti c discovery systems are motivated from the desire to deal with larger databases. However the larger the databases are, the more computational power we need. Parallel computing is a pos...

PURPOSE There are growing doubts about the accuracy of Cockcroft-Gault formula (CG) used for the estimation of creatinine clearance, especially in elderly. Recently, the authors of the multicenter trial of the Modification of Diet in Renal Diseases (MDRD) have proposed a new equation. Moreover, Baracskay et al. (B), proposed the special formula for the estimation of kidney function (KF) in elde...

We consider equation systems of the form X1 = f1(X1, . . . , Xn), . . . , Xn = fn(X1, . . . , Xn) where f1, . . . , fn are polynomials with positive real coefficients. In vector form we denote such an equation system by X = f(X) and call f a system of positive polynomials, short SPP. Equation systems of this kind appear naturally in the analysis of stochastic models like stochastic context-free...

Recent developments in the realm of state estimation of stochastic dynamic systems in the presence of non-Gaussian noise have induced a new methodology called the maximum correntropy filtering. The filters designed under the maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) utilize a similarity measure (or correntropy) between two random variables as a cost function. They are shown to improve the estimators’...

We consider equation systems of the form X1 = f1(X1, . . . , Xn), . . . , Xn = fn(X1, . . . , Xn) where f1, . . . , fn are polynomials with positive real coefficients. In vector form we denote such an equation system by X = f(X) and call f a system of positive polynomials, short SPP. Equation systems of this kind appear naturally in the analysis of stochastic models like stochastic context-free...

This study aims to examine a design of computer-supported collaborative learning environment featured by Knowledge Forum with embedded teacher-student codesigned scaffolds and group portfolios as an assessment tool for Chinese tertiary business students and to further investigate how academic literacy develops in the designed environment. Four intact classes with 127 Year 1 students participate...

The standard formulations of the Kalman filter (KF) and extended Kalman filter (EKF) require the storage and multiplication of matrices of size n × n, where n is the size of the state space, and the inversion of matrices of size m × m, where m is the size of the observation space. Thus when both m and n are large, implementation issues arise. In this paper, we advocate the use of the limited me...

The utility of a Kalman filter (KF) for initialization of an intermediate nonlinear coupled model for El Niño – Southern Oscillation prediction is studied via an approximation of the nonlinear coupled model by a system of seasonally dependent linear models. The low-dimensional nature of such an approximation allows one to determine a sequence of “perfect” initial states that start a trajectory ...