This work is concerned with the numerical solution of large-scale linear matrix equations A1XB T 1 + · · ·+ AKXB K = C. The most straightforward approach computes X ∈ Rm×n from the solution of an mn×mn linear system, typically limiting the feasible values of m,n to a few hundreds at most. Our new approach exploits the fact that X can often be well approximated by a low-rank matrix. It combines ...

Background: Although a simple and direct method does not exist for the detection of chlamydial infections, there are situations in which reliable serological tests, with sensi-tivity related to a specific antigen, could be helpful. Objective: The aim of this study was to clone the first 1100 bp of the C. trachomatis outer membrane protein 2 (omp2) gene in order to prepare a recombinant protein ...

background and aims: dna constructs containing hcv antigens have become one of the vaccine candidates for induction of anti-hcv cellular and humoral immunity. in this study, we constructed a novel expressing vector harboring a fusion sequence derived from an overlapping fragment in the middle of ns3 and a truncated core fragment to avoid troubles reported to be associated with full gene express...

understanding the implication of genotype-by-environment interaction (gei) and improving stability of crop yield in a target production environment is important in plant breeding. in this research, we used the ammi (additive main effects and multiplicative interaction) model to identify the stable genotype(s) by predictive accuracy of yield data. results of this study indicated that the fgh tes...

The problem of estimating the location of facies boundaries is difficult in history matching, partly because of the geological complexity. The truncated plurigaussian method for modeling geologic facies is useful in this aspect not only for the wide variety of textures and shapes that can be generated, but also because of the internal consistency of the stochastic model. This method has not bee...

The permutation test is one of the oldest techniques for making statistical inferences. Monte Carlo methods and asymptotic formulas have been used to approximate the associated p-values. When data are truncated, however, the permutation null distribution is difficult to handle. We describe here an efficient sequential importance sampling strategy for generating permutations with restricted posi...

and then p(S) = 1. Now suppose that p (S) 2 p > 1 and that the boundary values of Gp-I are infinite. From (12) a boundary value of Gp can be finite only if /BPI = 1, then from (1 1) we obtain P k = O c,(t;p) = hkXj-(t-k) = 0 , andp(S) = p. Finally, we must show that forp 2 p (S) the MLE does not exist. reflection coefficients with IBkI < 1 fork < p and IPpI = 1 leading through (5) to the condit...

We present a class of methods which is a combination of the limited memory BFGS method and the truncated Newton method. Each member of the class is defined by the (possibly dynamic) number of vector pairs of the L-BFGS method and the forcing sequence of the truncated Newton method. We exemplify with a scheme which makes the hybrid method perform like the L-BFGS method far from the solution, and...