Mixed Presence Groupware (MPG) supports both co-located and distributed participants working over a shared visual workspace. It does so by connecting multiple single-display groupware workspaces together through a shared data structure. Our implementation and observations of MPG systems exposes two problems: the first is display disparity, where connecting heterogeneous displays introduces issu...

Fuzzy predictive control integrates conventional model predictive control with techniques from fuzzy multicriteria decision making, translating the goals and the constraints to predictive control in a transparent way. The information regarding the (fuzzy) goals and the (fuzzy) constraints of the control problem is combined by using a decision function from the theory of fuzzy sets. This paper i...

We report on deep multi-color imaging (R5σ = 26) of the Chandra Deep Field South, obtained with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at the MPG/ESO 2.2 m telescope on La Silla as part of the multi-color survey COMBO-17. As a result we present a catalogue of 63501 objects in a field measuring 31.′5 × 30′ with astrometry and BVR photometry. A sample of 37 variable objects is selected from two-epoch photom...

SUMMARY The interpretation of genome-wide association results is confounded by linkage disequilibrium between nearby alleles. We have developed a flexible bioinformatics query tool for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to identify and to annotate nearby SNPs in linkage disequilibrium (proxies) based on HapMap. By offering functionality to generate graphical plots for these data, the SNAP s...

This paper deals with a quasi-synchronous code division multiple access (QS-CDMA) system with a multiple processing gain (MPG) variable data rate scheme in the uplink direction and subject tomultipath fading channels. An analytic expression is obtained for the signal-to-noise plus interference ratio (SNIR) at the Rake receiver output (finger). In order to maximize the SNIR, three combinatorial ...

We consider an electric circuit in which the players participate as resistors and adjust their resistance in pursuit of individual maximum power. The maximum power game(MPG) becomes very complicated in a circuit which is indecomposable into serial/parallel components, yielding a nontrivial power distribution at equilibrium. Depending on the circuit topology, MPG covers a wide range of phenomena...

Based on real-time driving information recording data, we raised a regression model for predicting gasoline consumption rate from speed, acceleration and heading degree information. We also developed a grouping method to sort high-frequency fragmented driving information to sets of trips, and then implemented supervised learning to illustrate the relationship between average speed and gasoline ...

DNA repair is a prime mechanism for preventing DNA damage, mutation, and cancers. Adopting a functional approach, we examined the association with lung cancer risk of an integrated DNA repair score, measured by a panel of three enzymatic DNA repair activities in peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The panel included assays for AP endonuclease 1 (APE1), 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1), and m...