The coherent and reversible storage of the quantum state of a light field is an important issue for the realization of many protocols in quantum information processing. In the past four years much work has been done on this topic utilizing the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). In the conventional EIT setup one makes use of an ensemble of Λ-level atoms, where the two ...

A new learning algorithm for feedforward networks, learning by choice of intern al represent at ions (C HIR), was recently introduced [1,2]. W hereas many algor it hm s red uce th e learning proce ss to minimizing a cost function over t he weights, our method treats th e internal representations as the funda ment al ent it ies to be determi ned. T he algo rithm applied a sea rch procedure in th...

1. This document is SS-AGR-177, one of a series of the Agronomy Department, UF/IFAS Extension. First Published July 2002. Revised September 2010. Reviewed April 2014. This publication is also part of the Florida Forage Handbook, an electronic publication of the Agronomy Department. For more information you may contact Yoana Newman ([email protected]). Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.if...

Collocations are defined as syntactically connected and semantically compatible pairs of content components, like Spanish prestar atención ‘give attention’, presidente del país ‘president of the country’, país grande ‘large country’ or muy bien ‘very well’. The collocation databases are important for numerous applications of computational linguistics. A small system storing Spanish collocations...

Medical treatment of sudden and especially chronic diseases has become more expensive. People suffering from a variety of diseases had been traditionally treated in hospitals for a long time. Fortunately, the current situation has been changing also thanks to relatively cheap body sensors and development of systems for home treatment. It brings inconsiderable cost savings and improves patients?...

Pistachio is one of the most important agricultural crops of Iran. It is a nut from Anacardiacea family and its domesticated species is called Pistacia vera L. Regarding to pistachio importance and usage and by the expanding of pistachio cultivate, it is necessary to improve agricultural situation and by establishing well equipped processing and packaging units near the farms, it is possible to...

A technique is presented that allows one to store groups of properties in C++, and single properties out of these groups can later be accessed by their name. Our approach refines previous work in this area and is an example for the application of template metaprogramming [1]. Typical usage examples of the introduced class templates are internal representations of serialized data, well suited fo...

In a study of 52 individuals belonging to 35 species or subspecies of passerine birds it was shown that the volume of the hippocampal complex relative to brain and body size is significantly larger in species that store food than in species that do not. Retrieval of stored food relies on an accurate and long-lasting spatial memory, and hippocampal damage disrupts memory for storage sites. The r...

Liver perisinusoidal fat-storing cells (FSC) show morphological and ultrastructural characteristics similar to pericytes regulating local blood flow in other organs. In the present study we have analyzed whether FSC respond to local vasoconstrictors such as thrombin, angiotensin-II, and endothelin-1 with an increase in intracellular free calcium concentration (ICa2I1I) coupled with effective ce...