Based on the sedimentary and subsiding features of Kuqa foreland basin, this paper presents the following characteristics of Neogene coupling relationship between Kuqa Basin and Southern Tien Shan Orogen, Northwestern China: (1) The Southern Tien Shan Orogen underwent Neogene uplifting of 4 km in height and the Kuqa Basin underwent Neogene subsidence of 4-6 km in depth accordingly beginning in ...

Microorganisms need to sense and respond to constantly changing microenvironments, and adapt their transcriptome, proteome, and metabolism accordingly to survive [1]. However, microbes sometimes react in a way which does not make immediate biological sense in light of the current environment— for example, by up-regulating an iron acquisition system in times of metal abundance. The reason for th...

Spectral envelopes and harmonics are the building elements of a speech signal. By estimating these elements, individual speech sources in a mixture observation can be reconstructed and hence separated. Transcription gives the spoken content. More important, it describes the expected sequence of spectral envelopes, if modeling of different speech sounds is acquired. Our recently proposed single-...

An evaluation of two traditional segmentation algorithms of Morphological Reconstruction and the Fast Marching method along with a novel hybrid segmentation approach is presented. After introducing the Fast Marching and the Morphological Reconstruction segmentation, we propose a novel hybrid segmentation approach in multi-stage, which is derived from both an improved Fast Marching method and th...

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When two targets (T1 & T2) are presented in rapid succession, observers often fail to report T2 if they attend to T1. The bottleneck theory proposes that this attentional blink (AB) is due to T1 occupying a slow processing stage when T2 is presented. Accordingly, if increasing T1 difficulty increases T1 processing time, this should cause a greater AB. The attention capture hypothesis suggests t...

A relative reduct can be considered as a minimum set of attributes that preserves a certain classification property. This paper investigates three different classification properties, and suggests three distinct definitions accordingly. In the Pawlak rough set model, while the three definitions yield the same set of relative reducts in consistent decision tables, they may result in different se...

Cells use strategic metabolites to sense the metabolome and accordingly modulate gene expression. Here, we show that the purine and phosphate pathways are positively regulated by the metabolic intermediate AICAR (5'-phosphoribosyl-5-amino-4-imidazole carboxamide). The transcription factor Pho2p is required for up-regulation of all AICAR-responsive genes. Accordingly, the binding of Pho2p to pur...

Stress is an unpleasant condition that entails negative emotions such as fear, worry and nervousness. Motivated by existing research that accompanies stress with physical reactions like increased heart rate, blood volume, pupil dilation and skin conductance, this work builds on the premise that measuring such reactions in real-time could implicitly identify stress of older adults at work while ...

Despite the wide dissemination and acceptance of teleworking, there are negative effects for employees. Literature shows that these negative effects of telework lead to undesired outcomes for teleworkers such as teleworkexhaustion. The present research, however, goes one step further by identifying three significant telework-characteristics and hypothesising the relationship between telework-ch...