Positions and derivatives are two essential notions in the conversion methods from regular expressions to equivalent finite automata. Partial derivative based methods have recently been extended to regular expressions with intersection. In this paper, we present a position automaton construction for those expressions. This construction generalizes the notion of position making it compatible wit...

A hypothesis based on the exchange and the inter-conversion of the “real” and the equivalent “virtual” particles of the quantum vacuum can resolve the contradiction of waveparticle duality, the “spookiness” and the other conflicting properties of the quantum particles. It can be shown using simple mathematics that the extent of the wave or the particle nature of a quantum particle depends on th...

In this chapter, three semantics-based schema conversion methods are presented: 1) CPI converts an XML schema to a relational schema while preserving semantic constraints of the original XML schema, 2) NeT derives a nested structured XML schema from a flat relational schema by repeatedly applying the nest operator so that the resulting XML schema becomes hierarchical, and 3) CoT takes a relatio...

and 0.03 6 0.1 mg/L for the low range (,1 mg/L). We conclude that citrated and heparinized plasma are equivalent specimens for D-Dimer testing with Tinaquant. For harmonization of D-Dimer concentrations between citrate and heparin plasma, a conversion factor of 0.84 for heparin plasma is recommended. The use of heparinized plasma allows measurements of chemical constituents as well as D-Dimer f...

This paper presents the design and implementation of an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for real-time rasterization of characters described by their outline based on vertical scan-conversion and flag fill algorithms. The chip acts as a coprocessor which rasterizes outline fonts given by Bezier splines and straight line segments. It generates high quality fonts at a rate 30 times ...

It is proved that every regular expression of size n can be converted into an equivalent nondeterministic nite automaton (NFA) of size O(n(log n) 2) in polynomial time. The best previous conversions result in NFAs of worst case size (n 2). Moreover, the nonexistence of any linear conversion is proved: we give a language Ln described by a regular expression of size O(n) such that every NFA accep...

In this paper, a Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) based approach is presented for distribution system reconfiguration. In contrast to the conventional GA based methods, the proposed approach does not require weighting factors for conversion of multi-objective function into an equivalent single objective function. In order to illustrate the performance of the proposed method,...

We establish a unified model dealing with the transport of electron and phonon in double heterojunction structures with the coexistence of three nonequilibrium processes: (1) nonequilibrium among electrons, (2) nonequilibrium among phonons, and (3) nonequilibrium between electrons and phonons. Using this model, we investigate the energy conversion efficiency based on concurrent thermoelectric a...

What if two users disagree on the relationship between elements? In XML, we can use namespaces and schema to address this problem. XML. A DTD is a set of rules or declarations There are two different approaches to parsing. The converter allows you to convert a DTD or set of XML files, to an equivalent XML Schema, DTD, Advanced options allow the user to customize different conversion parameters....

A new approach to the conversion of the sampled-data H problem to an equivalent pure discrete-time, lumped-variables counterpart, is presented. The approach is independent of controller causality constraints. In particular, it is applicable to problems, such as preview tracking and fixed-lag smoothing, where existing reduction methods fail. We demonstrate this by solving Open Problem no. 51 fro...