∗ U.S. Department of Defense, 9800 Savage Rd., Suite 6811, Fort Meade, MD 20755. E-mail: [email protected]. ∗∗ Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, 7005 52nd Avenue, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail: [email protected]. † Department of Computer Science and UMIACS, University of Maryland, AV Williams Building 3153, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail: [email protected]. ‡ Cente...

The world of science fiction has long known computers, robots and spaceships that can converse like humans, pass the Turing Test with ease, and interact with their environments with superhuman intelligence. There is an entire spectrum from a Data to a HAL to the ubiquitous Star Trek computer that will dim your lights, serve you tea or commence the autodestruct sequence. Many of these, like Data...

The landmark case Frye v. United States is associated with the general-acceptance standard for admissibility of scientific evidence. The standard, still the law in some jurisdictions, has largely been replaced by one based on Federal Rule of Evidence 702. Although it is known from the 1923 Frye opinion's terse wording that the science in question was a systolic blood pressure deception test, th...

The classical Petrov-Galerkin approach to Black Box multigrid for nonsymmetric problems due to Dendy is combined with the recent factor-three-coarsening Black Box algorithm due to Dendy and Moulton, along with a powerful symmetric line Gauss-Seidel smoother, resulting in an e cient and robust multigrid solver. Focusing on the convectiondi usion operator, the algorithm is tested and shown to ach...

We present a derivation and theoretical investigation of the Adams-Bashforth and Adams-Moulton family of linear multistep methods for solving ordinary differential equations, starting from a Gaussian process (GP) framework. In the limit, this formulation coincides with the classical deterministic methods, which have been used as higher-order initial value problem solvers for over a century. Fur...

To develop an understanding of singularity formation in vortex sheets, we consider model equations that exhibit shared characteristics with the vortex sheet equation but are slightly easier to analyze. A model equation is obtained by replacing the ux term in Burgers' equation by alternatives that contain contributions depending globally on the solution. We consider the continuum of partial diie...

In this letter, we investigate the shrinkage problem for the non-local means (NLM) image denoising. In particular, we derive the closed-form of the optimal blockwise shrinkage for NLM that minimizes the Stein’s unbiased risk estimator (SURE). We also propose a constant complexity algorithm allowing fast blockwise shrinkage. Simulation results show that the proposed blockwise shrinkage method im...

The gene encoding the 5S rRNA for Leptospira interrogans serovar canicola strain Moulton was isolated and sequenced. The 5S rRNA gene occurs as a single copy within the genome and encodes a 117-nucleotide-long RNA molecule. The 5S rRNA gene is flanked at both the 5' and 3' ends by regions of A + T-rich sequences, and the 5'-flanking region contains a promoter sequence. L. interrogans has a uniq...

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A series of 15 species described from specimens collected from the leaves of mango trees at a single site in Mexico are newly placed as synonyms of the California citrus thrips, Scirtothrips citri (Moulton) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). These species were originally discriminated based on differences in the precise placement of setae in the median area of the pronotum, and this chaetotaxy is here ...