A two-user Gaussian Z-Interference Channel (GZIC) is considered, in which encoders are connected through noiseless links with finite capacities. In this setting, prior to each transmission block the encoders communicate with each other over the cooperative links. The capacity region and the sum-capacity of the channel are characterized within 1.71 bits per user and 2 bits in total, respectively...

Darwin is one of the most challenging space projects ever considered by the European Space Agency ESA Its principal objectives are to detect Earth like planets around nearby stars and to characterise their atmospheres Within the frame of the Darwin programme the European Space Agency ESA and the European Southern Observatory ESO intend to build a ground based technology demonstrator Such a grou...

Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed and demonstrated a highly capable system, GENIE, for the twoclass problem of detecting a single feature against a background of non-feature. In addition to the two-class case, however, a commonly encountered remote sensing task is the segmentation of multispectral image data into a larger number of distinct feature classes or land cover types. To thi...

Small lung carcinoma is an endemic disease throughout the world which occurs mainly by cigarette smoking. A mutagenous compound known as nitro benzene is formed in the body due to cigarette smoking which causes mutation in normal tissues of lung and hence they are changed into malignant tissues by over growth of the tissues. Cancer Genome Anatomy Project website developed by National Cancer Ins...

| The problem of noncoherent multiuser detection for nonorthogonal multipulse modulation (NMM) over the Gaussian multiuser channel was studied in [1]. In that work, the idea of noncoherent decorrelation for NMM was introduced and post-decorrelative detectors were derived and analyzed. In this paper, we introduce the concept of noncoherent decision feedback that forms the basis for another set o...

We formed the GEnetics of Nephropathy-an International Effort (GENIE) consortium to examine previously reported genetic associations with diabetic nephropathy (DN) in type 1 diabetes. GENIE consists of 6,366 similarly ascertained participants of European ancestry with type 1 diabetes, with and without DN, from the All Ireland-Warren 3-Genetics of Kidneys in Diabetes U.K. and Republic of Ireland...

We present a statistical model of genes in DNA. A Generalized Hidden Markov Model (GHMM) provides the framework for describing the grammar of a legal parse of a DNA sequence (Stormo & Haussler 1994). Probabilities are assigned to transitions between states in the GHMM and to the generation of each nucleotide base given a particular state. Machine learning techniques are applied to optimize thes...

Between May 6 and May 18, 2000, the Cerro Grande/Los Alamos wildfire burned approximately 43,000 acres (17,500 ha) and 235 residences in the town of Los Alamos, NM. Initial estimates of forest damage included 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of 70-100% tree mortality. Restoration efforts following the fire were complicated by the large scale of the fire, and by the presence of extensive natural and man-...

The uppermost 50 cm of the high resolution core GeoB9501-4 from the continental slope off NW Africa has been used for improving routine technique of 210Pb and 137Cs sediment chronology in the Radioactivity measurement laboratory of the Bremen University. The experimental requirements for 210Pb and 137Cs determination were non-destructive analysis of wet sediment samples in cylindrical container...