A recent research trend in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the combination of several programs into one single, stronger, program; this is termed portfolio methods. We here investigate the application of such methods to Game Playing Programs (GPPs). In addition, we consider the case in which only one GPP is available by decomposing this single GPP into several ones through the use of parameters...

Comparison of four EVI-based models for estimating gross primary production of maize and soybean croplands and tallgrass prairie under severe drought" (2015). a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Gross primary production (GPP) Drought Light use efficiency (LUE) Vegetation Photosynthesis Model (VPM) Temperature and Greenness (TG) model Greenness and Radiation (GR) model Vegetation Ind...

Differentiating between acute generalised exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) and generalised pustular psoriasis (GPP) is very challenging because of clinical and histopathological similarities. A 60-year-old woman presented with pustular eruption and fever. She had taken dapsone and zaltoprofen for five days. Laboratory findings revealed neutrophil dominant leucocytosis and histopathological findi...

Increasing demand for multimedia applications (MMAs) by general-purpose processor (GPP) users leads architects to merge multimedia processing capability into GPPs. To develop a GPP providing high quality multimedia services as well as high performance general computing, thorough understanding of the characteristics of both types of applications is fundamental. This paper presents an comprehensi...

Climate extremes can affect the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, for instance via a reduction of the photosynthetic capacity or alterations of respiratory processes. Yet the dominant regional and seasonal effects of hydrometeorological extremes are still not well documented and in the focus of this paper. Specifically, we quantify and characterize the role of large spatiotemporal extreme ...

OBJECTIVES Broad international guidelines and studies in the context of individual clinical trials highlight the centrality of community stakeholder engagement in conducting ethically rigorous HIV prevention trials. We explored and identified challenges and facilitators for community stakeholder engagement in biomedical HIV prevention trials in diverse global settings. Our aim was to assess and...

Global estimates of terrestrial gross primary production (GPP) remain highly uncertain, despite decades of satellite measurements and intensive in situ monitoring. We report a new approach for quantifying the near-infrared reflectance of terrestrial vegetation (NIRV). NIRV provides a foundation for a new approach to estimate GPP that consistently untangles the confounding effects of background ...

The guanine nucleotides guanosine 5'[beta, gamma-imido]triphosphate (Gpp[NH]p), guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]-triphosphate (GTP gamma S), GMP, GDP and GTP stimulated the hydrolysis of inositol phospholipids by a phosphodiesterase in rat cerebral cortical membranes. Addition of 100 microM-Gpp[NH]p to prelabelled membranes caused a rapid accumulation of [3H )inositol phosphates (less than 30 s) for u...

BACKGROUND Although Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) is a preventable and treatable disease it still often remains undiagnosed during life. OBJECTIVES To create practical guidelines for diagnosis, management and prevention of the disease. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, Cochrane Library. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1 The clinical diagnosis of WE should take into account the d...

During the SA3-31 meeting in Munich, it was decided that the Bluetooth link between peripheral devices did not require integrity protection (see section 6.1.1 of [1]). This contribution indicates that a man-in-the-middle attack may be possible on the bluetooth link in a WLAN in-terworking environment. The attacker lures the victim to connect to a malicious WLAN access point. The attack does not...