The present study was initiated to examine the relationship between the workplace concentrations and the estimated highest concentrations in solvent workplaces (SWPs), with special references to enterprise size and types of solvent work. Results of survey conducted in 1010 SWPs in 156 enterprises were taken as a database. Workplace air was sampled at > or = 5 crosses in each SWP following a gri...

The role of mannitol and malic acid in the regulation of diurnal leaf water relations was investigated in 'Biancolilla' (high-mannitol) and 'Cerasuola' (low-mannitol) olive trees. Photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), vapor pressure deficit (VPD), stomatal conductance (gs), transpiration rate (T), relative water content (RWC), mannitol and malic acid were measured in 'Biancolilla' and 'Cer...

The effect of dehydration on the specific activities and transcript levels of several glycolytic enzymes was determined in two chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivarsPusa362 (drought tolerant) and SBD377 (drought sensitive). Dehydration treatment was imposed on 6 days old chickpea seedlings by removing them from pots and keeping them on table top on 3MM Whatman paper at room temperature for 5 h...

The paper presents a mixed signal CMOS feedforward neural-network chip with on-chip error-reduction hardware for real-time adaptation. The chip has compact on-chip weighs capable of high-speed parallel learning; the implemented learning algorithm is a genetic random search algorithm: the random weight change (RWC) algorithm. The algorithm does not require a known desired neural network output f...

In this paper, we introduce our activities regarding the manual annotation of the musical pieces of the RWC Music Database. Although the RWC Music Database is widely used, its annotated descriptions are not widely available. We therefore annotated a set of music-scene descriptions consisting of the beat structure, melody line, and chorus sections. We call this AIST Annotation. We also manually ...

Plants of Boea hygroscopica F. Muell were dehydrated to 9% relative water content (RWC) by withholding water for 26 d, and afterward the plants were rehydrated. Leaves were taken from control plants after 7, 12, and 26 d from the beginning of dehydration, and after 6 and 48 h from rehydration. The RWC decreased by 80% during dehydration, but the leaves regained RWC with rehydration. Dehydrated ...

Drought resistance is an important breeding target for enhancing alfalfa productivity in arid and semi-arid regions. Identification of genes involved in drought tolerance will facilitate breeding for improving drought resistance and water use efficiency in alfalfa. Our objective was to use a diversity panel of alfalfa accessions comprised of 198 cultivars and landraces to identify genes involve...

In this paper I introduce the RWC (Real World Computing) Music Database, a copyright-cleared music database (DB) that is available to researchers as a common foundation for research. Shared DBs are common in other research fields and have made significant contributions to progress in those fields. The field of music information processing, however, has lacked a common DB of musical pieces or a ...

This paper makes the case for a spotting computation scheme which gives rise to a new classification methodology for processing real world data by surveying algorithms developed under the Real World Computing (RWC) program and related work in Japan. A spotting function has the segmentation-free characteristic which ignores gracefully most real world input data which do not belong to a task doma...

A hybrid learning method of a software-based backpropagation learning and a hardware-based RWC learning is proposed for the development of circuit-based neural networks. The backpropagation is known as one of the most efficient learning algorithms. A weak point is that its hardware implementation is extremely difficult. The RWC algorithm, which is very easy to implement with respect to its hard...