Division of Biopesticides and Environmental Toxicology, Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences (SPKCES), Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Alwarkurichi 627 412, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Rice and Winter Cereal Crop, Honam Agricultural Research Institute (HARI), National Institute of Crop Science (NICS), Rural Development Administration (RDA), #381 Songhak-dong, ...

Humean supervenience (HS) is the thesis that everything supervenes upon the spatiotemporal distribution of local intrinsic qualities. A recent threat to HS, originating in thought experiments by Armstrong and Kripke, claims that the mere possibility of rotating homogeneous discs proves HS false. I argue that the rotating disc argument (RDA) fails. If I am right, Humeans needn’t abandon or alter...

Fifty-one years ago, at the height of World War II, the National Research Council (NRC) published a six-page document entitled Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). Since then, the nine successive editions of the RDAs have become nutrition's gold standard—the most authoritative guide to the nutrient needs of people in the United States, used for an extraordinary variety of purposes. The NRC's ...

We propose a voted dual averaging method for online classification problems with explicit regularization. This method employs the update rule of the regularized dual averaging (RDA) method proposed by Xiao, but only on the subsequence of training examples where a classification error is made. We derive a bound on the number of mistakes made by this method on the training set, as well as its gen...

Gene isolation methods used during positional cloning rely on physical contigs consisting of bacterial artificial chromosomes, P1, or cosmid clones. However, in most instances, the initial framework for physical mapping consists of contigs of yeast artificial chromosome (YACs), large vectors that are suboptimal substrates for gene isolation. Here we report a strategy to identify gene sequences ...

Based on linear regression, a novel method called reconstructive discriminant analysis (RDA) is developed for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction (DR). RDA is induced from linear Regression classification (LRC). LRC assumes each class lies on a linear subspace and finds the nearest subspace for a given sample. But the original space cannot guarantee that the given sample matches its...

Recent advances in stochastic optimization and regularized dual averaging approaches revealed a substantial interest for a simple and scalable stochastic method which is tailored to some more specific needs. Among the latest one can find sparse signal recovery and l0-based sparsity inducing approaches. These methods in particular can force many components of the solution shrink to zero thus cla...

Pacific Northwest Indigenous communities historically managed terrestrial and marine environments to increase the productivity access of traditional foods. Sea gardens, also called clam were an aquaculture method that increased food habitat for targeted species such as bivalves. This study utilized fatty acid biomarker analysis alongside stable isotopic with bivalve condition indices traditiona...