The production of novel types complex shapes is nowadays enabled by new manufacturing paradigms such as additive manufacturing, also known 3D printing. continuous increase shape complexity imposes challenges in terms inspection, product qualification and process monitoring methodologies. Previously proposed methods for 2.5D free-form surfaces are no longer applicable the presence this kind full...

The semigroup game is a two-person zero-sum game defined on a semigroup (S, ·) as follows: Players 1 and 2 choose elements x ∈ S and y ∈ S, respectively, and player 1 receives a payoff f(xy) defined by a function f : S → [−1, 1]. If the semigroup is amenable in the sense of Day and von Neumann, one can extend the set of classical strategies, namely countably additive probability measures on S, ...

In this paper we address the question: Is water-filling appropriate for watermarking? The water-filling paradigm is a traditional solution to the capacity maximization of parallel zero-mean additive white Gaussian channels subject to a signal energy constraint. In this work, we take an information theoretic approach to analyze the watermark communication problem in the presence of perceptual co...

We study the max-plus equation P þ cðxÞ 1⁄4 max xpspM ðHðsÞ þ cðgðsÞÞÞ; xA1⁄20;M ; ð*Þ where H : 1⁄20;M -ð N;NÞ and g : 1⁄20;M -1⁄20;M are given functions. The function c : 1⁄20;M -1⁄2 N;NÞ and the quantity P are unknown, and are, respectively, an eigenfunction and additive eigenvalue. Eigensolutions c are known to describe the asymptotics of certain solutions of singularly perturbed differenti...

In the present study, mixed matrix PES/zeolite nanoparticles nanofiltration membranes were prepared via the solution casting technique. The effect of zeolite concentration on the PES membrane performance and its properties was studied. Cross-sectional scanning electron microscope (SEM) observations showed that the porosity in the membrane sub-layer was increased with addition of zeolite into th...

SUMMARY Two web-based applications to analyze amino acids three-dimensional (3D) local environment within protein structures-SCORPION and FORMIGA-are presented. SCORPION and FORMIGA produce a graphical presentation for simple statistical data showing the frequency of residue occurrence within a given sphere (defined here as the 3D contacts). The center of that sphere is placed at the Calpha and...

The design of proteins with predetermined structural properties is a necessary first step in the de novo design of novel enzymes and receptors. A major problem associated with the design of proteins is the high flexibility inherent in polypeptide chains. It has been estimated that a protein of 100 residues can adopt up to 101~176 different conformations, a number that is as large as the number ...

Exploring further the connection between exponentiation on real closed fields and the existence of an integer part modelling strong fragments of arithmetic, we demonstrate that each model of true arithmetic is an integer part of an exponential real closed field that is elementary equivalent to the reals with exponentiation and that each model of Peano arithmetic is an integer part of a real clo...

The existing data on the safe upper limits of amino acid intake in humans is essentially observational; how much do individuals ingest and what side effects do they have? There are numerous studies in humans comparing the effects of high doses of amino acids given as protein bound vs. as free amino acids. These studies have shown that protein-bound amino acids have much less effect on plasma le...

In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which users have preferences. We consider the problem of computing a best feasible solution when the user’s utilities are partially known. Assuming bounds on utilities, efficient mixed integer linear programs are devised to compute the solution with minimax regret while exploiting ge...