MOTIVATION Position weight matrices (PMWs) are simple models commonly used in motif-finding algorithms to identify short functional elements, such as cis-regulatory motifs, on genes. When few experimentally verified motifs are available, estimation of the PWM may be poor. The resultant PWM may not reliably discriminate a true motif from a false one. While experimentally identifying such motifs ...

MOTIVATION AND RESULTS The position weight matrix (PWM) is a popular method to model transcription factor binding sites. A fundamental problem in cis-regulatory analysis is to "count" the occurrences of a PWM in a DNA sequence. We propose a novel probabilistic score to solve this problem of counting PWM occurrences. The proposed score has two important properties: (1) It gives appropriate weigh...

This paper describes an agricultural vehicle modified to serve as a research platform for agricultural engineering. A tractor was equipped with a global positioning receiver, inertial/GPS system, geomagnetic direction sensor, and a monochrome camera for local and global sensing. For steering control, the tractor was equipped with an electro-hydraulic proportional steering valve, PWM coil valve ...

An increasing number of manufacturing processes rely on ultra-high speed and accuracy machines. Piezoceramic actuators are being utilized as parts of such machines. So far, only linear and switched-capacitor power supplies have been used for driving piezoceramic actuators in such applications. This paper proposes a switch-mode power supply to reduce cost and increase system efficiency. In the p...

Received Apr 6, 2016 Revised Nov 11, 2016 Accepted Nov 23, 2016 The adjustable speed drives employ PWM converter-inverter system in order to obtain unity power factor. The DC inrush current in DC link capacitors of the rectifier limits the operation of power devices. Hence, this paper proposes a new approach to reduce the DC inrush current by employing modified Z-source inverter in a Adjustable...

The relationship between space vector modulation and regular-sampled PWM techniques for hard-switching PWM inverters and rectifiers are reexamined in this paper. Space vector modulation with optimized apportioning of null vector time that results in minimum current THD is investigated and is compared with previously known methods. The conventional optimal regular-sampled PWM method and its rela...

In this paper, a method for minimization of Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) is proposed in case of PWM inverter. Inverters are widely used in many applications such as in the UPS and ac motor drives resulting in harmonics production. A phase compensation Resonant Controller (RSC) is proposed for 1-phase pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter using MATLAB simulation. The simulation results are th...

In this paper, the low-power adiabatic dynamic CMOS logic (ADCL) digital pulse width modulation (PWM) has been designed for solid state lighting (SSL) dimming system. Architecture of ADCL digital 3-bit PWM is miniaturized. 60 transistors and 15 capacitors were reduced. Furthermore, the clock cut-off circuit which controls wake-up and sleep mode of ADCL DFFs is proposed. The power consumption of...

This paper presents the prediction-preserving reducibility with membership queries (pwm-reducibility) on formal languages, in particular, simple CFGs and finite unions of regular pattern languages. For the former, we mainly show that DNF formulas are pwm-reducible to CFGs that is sequential or that contains at most one nonterminal. For the latter, we show that both bounded finite unions of regu...