From its inception, the WSR-88D program has recognized the need for system enhancement and growth. Under the NEXRAD Product Improvement (NPI) project, the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) designed and demonstrated an open-system architecture for the Radar Data Acquisition (RDA) subsystem of the WSR-88D radar (Zahrai et al. 2002). One of the objectives of the first phase of the open RDA ...

Recent advances in stochastic optimization and regularized dual averaging approaches revealed a substantial interest for a simple and scalable stochastic method which is tailored to some more specific needs. Among the latest one can find sparse signal recovery and l0-based sparsity inducing approaches. These methods in particular can force many components of the solution shrink to zero thus cla...

The genomic subtraction method representational difference analysis (RDA) was used to identify male-specific restriction fragments in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia. Male-specific restriction fragments are linked to the male sex chromosome (the Y chromosome). Four RDA-derived male-specific restriction fragments were used to identify polymorphisms in a collection of X-ray-generated mutant ...

A method for the isolation of genomic fragments of RNA virus based on cDNA representational difference analysis (cDNA RDA) was developed. cDNA RDA has been applied for the subtraction of poly(A)(+) RNAs but not for poly(A)(-) RNAs, such as RNA virus genomes, owing to the vast quantity of ribosomal RNAs. We constructed primers for inefficient reverse transcription of ribosomal sequences based on...

The Controls Middleware (CMW) project was launched over ten years ago. Its main goal was to unify middleware solutions used to operate CERN accelerators. An important part of the project, the equipment access library RDA, was based on CORBA, an unquestionable standard at the time. RDA became an operational and critical part of the infrastructure, yet the demanding run-time environment revealed ...

Background. The aim of the study was to assess some selected minerals (Ca, Mg, Na, K, P, Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn) in different types of breadstuff. Moreover, the frequency of breadstuff consumption was determined in a selected group of students at one of Lublin universities. Material and methods. The material for the study was breadstuff available on the consumer market, produced from wheat and rye flou...

Linkage mapping of quantitative trait loci requires analysis of a large number of animals. Although genetic markers isolated by representational difference analysis (RDA) and its modifications meet the needs, the number of these markers has been limited. In the present study, we established the arbitrarily primed (AP)–RDA method to isolate virtually an unlimited number of the high throughput ge...

OBJECTIVE This study reports on the energy, macro- and micronutrient intakes of a true longitudinal group of 143 urban black South African children from the Birth-to-Twenty (Bt20) study at two interceptions (2000 and 2003) when they were 10 and 13 years old, respectively. METHODS Subjects resided in the urban Johannesburg/Soweto area of the Gauteng Province in South Africa. Dietary intake was...

MANETs (Mobile ad hoc networks) are overloaded with their heavy usage choking traffic. Recent studies have been attempting to find feasibility of routes in these networks. Most proposed schemes failed consider the network traffic or MANET requirements. routing done by RPs (Routing Protocols) would perform better when they adhere QoS (Quality Service) application As a result, must satisfy numero...

Rapidly destructive arthritis (RDA) of the shoulder is a rare disease. Here, we report two cases, with different destruction patterns, which were most probably due to subchondral insufficiency fractures (SIFs). Case 1 involved a 77-year-old woman with right shoulder pain. Rapid destruction of both the humeral head and glenoid was seen within 1 month of the onset of shoulder pain. We diagnosed s...