Though the electrostatic, ionic, van der Waals, Lennard-Jones, hydrogen bonding, and other forces play an important role in the energy function minimized at a protein's native state, it is widely believed that the hydrophobic force is the dominant term in protein folding. Here we attempt to quantify the extent to which the hydrophobic force determines the positions of the backbone alpha-carbon ...

SYNOPSIS Results of unconsolidated-undrained triaxial tests, field vane shear tests and cone penetration tests have been used to develop correlations between undrained shear strength and cone resistance for a soft to medium alluvial clay in the Lopez Canyon area of San Diego. When comparing uu triaxial results with cone resistance, the average cone factor was 11 with a standard deviation of 1.5...

The data include milking data collected over a four month time period by robots on four farms and monthly test-day milk data collected by veterinarian for determination of the incidence of clinical mastitis (i.e. healthy cows and sick cows). A major part of work involved data pre-processing that plays an important role in this model development. Since the milking machine operated continually an...

I this paper, we investigate the integrated information and pricing strategy for a seller who can take customer preorders before the release of a product. The preorder option enables the seller to sell a product at an early stage when consumers are less certain about their valuations. We find that the optimal pricing strategy may be highly dependent on the amount of information available at pre...

PURPOSE To investigate optic disc perfusion differences in normal, primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), and normal tension glaucoma (NTG) eyes using optical microangiography (OMAG) based optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography technique. DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study. SUBJECTS Twenty-eight normal, 30 POAG, and 31 NTG subjects. METHODS One eye from each subject was scan...

This paper focuses on an infinite-server queue modulated by an independently evolving finite-state Markovian background process, with transition rate matrix Q ≡ (qij)i,j=1. Both arrival rates and service rates are depending on the state of the background process. The main contribution concerns the derivation of central limit theorems for the number of customers in the system at time t ≥ 0, in t...

In this paper, we propose two confidence measures (CMs) in speech recognition: one based on acoustic likelihood and the other based on phone duration. For a decoded speech frame aligned to an HMM state, the CM based on acoustic likelihood depends on the relative position of its output likelihood value in the probability distribution of likelihood value in that particular state. The CM of whole ...