We describe exbar, a powerful new algorithm for the exact inference of minimal deterministic automata from given training data. This algorithm achieves the highest performance ever on a set of graded benchmark problems that has been posted by Arlindo Oliveira. In addition, we note that the inexact program ed-beam, which resulted from the Abbadingo DFA learning competition, also does well on thi...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies, but its pathogenesis hasn’t been elucidate so far. Recently, most researchers consider that occurrence and evolution of colorectal cancer refer to mutiple factors, more procedures and complex sequential change of polygenes in different segments. Meanwhile, In different regions virus infection involved in it, of which human papilloma viru...

We present a fast parallel algorithm running in O log n time on a CREW PRAM with O n processors for nding the kth longest path in a given tree of n vertices with n intervertex distances Our algorithm is obtained by e cient parallelization of a sequential algorithm which is a variant of both Megiddo et al s algorithm and Fredrickson et al s algorithm based on centroid decomposition of tree and s...

The mobility of As in soils depends on several factors including redox potential, soil mineralogy, pH, and the presence of other oxyanions that compete with As for soil retention sites. We investigated the effects of pH and competing anions on the adsorption of arsenate [As(V)] on a-FeOOH (goethite) and y-AI(OHb (gibbsite). Batch equilibrium As(V) adsorption experiments were conducted with P an...

We present a sequential Monte Carlo sampler variant of the partial rejection control algorithm introduced by Liu (2001), termed SMC sampler PRC, and show that this variant can be considered under the same framework of the sequential Monte Carlo sampler of Del Moral et al. (2006). We make connections with existing algorithms and theoretical results, and extend some theoretical results to the SMC...

Existing general circulation models rely heavily on strong cloud homogeneity assumptions; the solar radiation is assumed to interact with highly unrealistic plane parallel (horizontally homogenous) clouds. In contrast, real clouds exhibit fractal structures and multifractal statistics over wides ranges of scale. For example, in Lovejoy et al. (1993) and Tessier et al. (1993), we showed that the...

I. Original Research Studies for Discussion Page 1 Cool CD et al. Fibroblastic foci are not discrete sites of lung injury or repair. The fibroblast reticulum. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;174:654-658. Page 2 Kelly MM et al. Cell-specific gene expression in patients with usual interstitial pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;174:557-565. Page 3 Lu BS et al. Sequential gene expression pro...

promote axon initiation and elongation or later as a che-moattractant or guidance factor. neurons survive in vitro and in vivo in the absence of trophic factor support, although the neurons were Nerve growth factor (NGF) has long been known to be smaller and extended only rudimentary projections with required for the survival, axonal growth, and differentia-larly, data from the NGF and the trkA...

An unusual category learning asymmetry in infants was observed by Quinn et al. (1993). Infants who were initially exposed to a series of pictures of cats and then were shown a dog and a novel cat, showed significantly more interest in the dog than in the cat. However, when the order of presentation was reversed — i.e., dogs were seen first, then a cat and a novel dog — the cat attracted no more...

Several reports have demonstrated biotransformation of tetrachloroethylene at low concentrations under strict anaerobic conditions by sequential reductive dechlorination (Fathepure and Boyd, 1988a; Freedman and Gosset, 1989). During this biodegradation, trichloroethylene (TCE), 1,1dichloroethylene, vinylidene chloride (DCE), and vinyl chloride (VC) are the intermediate products ; ethene or etha...