Recovering surface from multiple images can be viewed as a problem of finding a solution of a nonlinear PDE system with a large number of parameters. A possible solution to this problem is to break the large scale optimization problem into many overlapped smaller problems, called snapshots. In this project, we investigate the size of snapshots, the optimization methods used to optimize each sna...

Background: Liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide-2 (LEAP-2) is an important component of innate immune system in teleosts. In order to understand isoform-specific involvement and regulation of LEAP-2 genes in mud loach (Misgurnus mizolepis, Cypriniformes), a commercially important food fish, this study was aimed to characterize gene structure and expression characteristics of two paralog LEAP-...

We present a comprehensive review of the current development discontinuous Galerkin methods on polytopic grids (PolyDG) for geophysical applications, addressing as paradigmatic applications numerical modeling seismic wave propagation and fracture reservoir simulations. first recall theoretical background analysis PolyDG discuss issue its efficient implementation meshes. address in detail quadra...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. The Pacific Islands Region 4. Domestic and International Telecommunications in the Pacific Region 5. Internet in the Pacific and the GII 6. "Public Service" Networks in the Pacific 7. Barriers to a Pacific Information Infrastructure 8. Pacific Information Infrastructure An Agenda for Policy Makers 9. Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography Figure 1 (57 k) Figure 2 (55 k...

Photonics is the platform of choice to build a modular, easy-to-network quantum computer operating at room temperature. However, no concrete architecture has been presented so far that exploits both advantages qubits encoded into states light and modern tools for their generation. Here we propose such design scalable fault-tolerant photonic informed by latest developments in theory technology. ...

the dorsal skin of the iranian frog, rana ridibanda, is associated with numerous prominent granular glands which extract their secretions in the response to stressor or invading pathogens .the secretions have broad spectrum antimicrobial effects. in this research the effect of antimicrobial skin secretions from iranian frog (rana ridibanda) has been examined against gram positive methycillin re...

In this paper, we introduce a fourth-order leap-frog time scheme combined with a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for the solution of the elastodynamic equations. The time discretization, obtained via a simple construction based on Taylor developments, provides an accurate scheme for the numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation. Results of the propagation of an eigenmode allow a...

We describe the core of a new strongly-typed functional programming language called LEAP, a \Language with Eval And Polymorphism." Pure LEAP is an extension of the !-order polymorphic -calculus (F ! ) by global de nitions that allows the representation of programs and the de nition of versions of reify, reflect, and eval for all of F ! . Pure LEAP is therefore highly re exive and strongly typed...