The calorimetry subsystem of the CLEO-III Trigger incorporates both analog and digital electronics to provide pipelined trigger information every 42 ns with a latency of approximately 2.5 μs. This paper describes the pipelined signal-processing and pattern-recognition schemes used to provide calorimeter information to the experiment trigger, with somewhat greater emphasis on the analog componen...

The measurements of CMB anisotropy have opened up a window for probing the global topology of the universe on length scales comparable to and beyond the Hubble radius. For compact topologies, the two main effects on the CMB are: (1) the breaking of statistical isotropy in characteristic patterns determined by the photon geodesic structure of the manifold and (2) an infrared cutoff in the power ...

The paper considers a distributed robust estimation problem over a network with randomly changing topology. The objective is to deal with these changes locally, by switching observer gains at affected nodes only. We propose sufficient conditions which guarantee a suboptimal H∞ level of disagreement of estimates in such observer networks, both in the mean-square sense and with probability 1. Whe...

The topology prediction of transmembrane protein is a hot research field in bioinformatics and molecular biology. It is a typical pattern recognition problem. Various prediction algorithms are developed to predict the transmembrane protein topology since the experimental techniques have been restricted by many stringent conditions. Usually, these individual prediction algorithms depend on vario...

Current recommender systems make recommendations mostly independent of context. The recommender systems field is starting to acknowledge that systems need to incorporate the context in or for which they make recommendations to improve results. We show how recommender systems can make use of CASAN nets, our extension of the classical associative spreading activation network formalism. In CASAN n...

Cosmological models that are locally consistent with general relativity and the standard model in which an object transported around the universe undergoes the transformations P, C and CP, are constructed. This leads to generalization of the gauge fields that describe electro-weak and strong interactions by enlarging the gauge groups to include anti-unitary transformations. Gedanken experiments...

BACKGROUND It has been recently accepted that IgG4-related thyroiditis is comparable to the Hashimoto and Riedel thyroiditis and Graves disease which are rich in IgG4-secreting plasma cells. Many physicians believe that in IgG4-related thyroiditis, the thyroid is entirely enlarged and diffusely affected, which is similar to conventional thyroiditis, but rarely ever accompanied by pseudoneoplast...

A series of experiments with honey bees demonstrate that their small brains nevertheless possess the ability for topological perception. Bees rapidly learned to discriminate patterns that are topologically different, and they generalized the learned cue to other novel patterns. By contrast, discrimination of topologically equivalent patterns was learned much more slowly and not as well. Thus, a...

Integral membrane proteins are generally believed to have unique membrane topologies. However, it has been suggested that dual-topology proteins that adopt a mixture of two opposite orientations in the membrane may exist. Here we show that the membrane orientations of five dual-topology candidates identified in Escherichia coli are highly sensitive to changes in the distribution of positively c...

Not similar with the current interest on collaboration networks research, the focus in this paper is competition networks. The topology of a firm competition network has been investigated empirically and theoretically. We have found that four fundamental characteristics emerge simultaneously in the competition network, including hierarchical modularity, positive degree correlation, power-law de...