background & aim: drought stress, as a main abiotic stress, has a significant influence on growth and metabolic activities of plant species. in this study, the influence of reduced irrigation on dry herbage, essential oil yield, and chemical components of two thyme species were investigated. experimental: this study was done in an experimental greenhouse, i.a.u., shahrekord branch, iran at...

The size |Y | of the output space Y is exponential and optimization over the entire space Y is computationally expensive. Hence in the sequential dual optimization method, the optimization of (A.6) is restricted to the set Yi = {y : αiy > 0} maintained for each example. For clarity, we present the sequential dual optimization method to solve (A.2) in Algorithm 3. The algorithm starts with Yi = ...

Let Z1, ..., Zn be i.i.d observations, where Zi = Xi +Yi and Xi and Yi are independent random variables. Assume that the distribution of Y ’s is known. The ordinary deconvolution problem is the problem of estimating the destribution of a random variables Xi from the observations Zi. In some situations (for instance, in signal processing) we don’t know the distribution of Yi but rather can assum...