The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on EOS/Aqua platform provides a measurement of global methane (CH4) in the mid-upper troposphere since September, 2002. As a thermal infrared sounder, the most sensitivity of AIRS to atmospheric CH4 is in the mid-upper troposphere with the degree of freedom of ~1.0. Validation of AIRS CH4 product versus thousands of aircraft profiles (convolved using the ...

Bregman Distan es Stephen Della Pietra, Vin ent Della Pietra, and John La erty February 10, 2002 CMU-CS-01-109R S hool of Computer S ien e Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Abstra t We formulate and prove a onvex duality theorem for Bregman distan es and present a te hnique based on auxiliary fun tions for deriving and proving onvergen e of iterative algorithms to minimize Bregman...

conclusions acute and chronic administration of ellagic acid had anxiolytic property. also, the most effective dose of ellagic acid was 30 mg/kg. pretreatment with flumazenil reversed the beneficial effect of ellagic acid and diazepam on anxiety. it is likely that the anxiolytic effect of ellagic acid is largely mediated by activation of gabaa receptor. results acute and chronic application of ...

objective(s): global cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (gcir) causes disturbances in brain functions as well as other organs such as kidney. our aim was to evaluate the protective effects of ellagic acid (ea) on certain renal disfunction after gcir. materials and methods: adult male wistar rats (n=32, 250-300 g) were used. gcir was induced by bilateral vertebral and common carotid arteries occlusio...

While desi ning radial basis function neural networks for classification, kzzy clustering is often used to position the hidden nodes in the input space. The main assumption of the clustering is that similar inputs produce similar out uts. In other words, it means that any two in ut patterns t o m the same cluster must be from the same cfass. Generalization is possible in the radial basis functi...

Conflict Identification in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE) is an integral step toward resolving conflicting dependencies between requirements at an early stage of the software development. However, to date there has been no work supporting detection of conflicts in a large set of textual requirements without converting texts into an alternative representation (such as models or ...

We consider the application of EA modulators to analog-todigital conversion. We have previously shown that for constant input signals, optimal nonlinear decoding can achieve large gains in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over linear decoding. In this paper we show a similar result for band-limited input signals. The new nonlinear decoding algorithm is based on projections onto convex sets (POCS), a...