Let rh be the symmetric nearest neighbor simple exclusion process on 7Z 3 modified to allow the spontaneous creation and destruction of particles at the origin. We study the invariant measures for the system in this non-equilibrium situation, for which a net current of particles flows from the origin. We analyze the n-point correlations of the invariant measures, which for n = 2 behave like max...

Species diversity may increase the productivity of tree communities through complementarity (CE) and/or selection effects (SE), but it is not well known how this relationship changes under water limitation. We tested the stress-gradient hypothesis, which predicts that resource use complementarity and facilitation are more important under water-limited conditions. We conducted a growth experimen...

This paper describes the development of a scalable process for people and machines working together to identify sections of text that reflect specific human values. A total of 2,005 sentences from 28 prepared testimonies presented before hearings on Net neutrality were manually annotated for one or more of ten human values using an annotation frame based on experience annotating similar content...

This Research study proposes a novel method for face recognition based on Texture boundaries or edges by using Canny and Sobel Edge detection that make use of global and personalized models. The system is aimed to recognize faces and identify their similarity across ages. A Personalized model covers the individual aging patterns while a Global model captures general aging patterns in the popula...

For achieving the development of a portable, low-cost and in vivo cancer diagnosis instrument, a laser 785 nm miniature Raman spectrometer was used to acquire the Raman spectra for breast cancer detection in this paper. However, because of the low spectral signal-to-noise ratio, it is difficult to achieve high discrimination accuracy by using the miniature Raman spectrometer. Therefore, a patte...

in this work, one and two-dimensional lattices are studied theoretically by a statistical mechanical approach. the nearest and next-nearest neighbor interactions are both taken into account, and the approximate thermodynamic properties of the lattices are calculated. the results of our calculations show that: (1) even though the next-nearest neighbor interaction may have an insignificant effect...

Current understanding of the phylogeny of prokaryotes is based on the comparison of the highly conserved small ssu-rRNA subunit and similar regions. Although such molecules have proved to be very useful phylogenetic markers, mutational saturation is a problem, due to their restricted lengths. Now, a growing number of complete prokaryotic genomes are available. This paper addresses the problem o...

Previous work on nets with continuous-valued inputs led to generative procedures to construct convex decision regions with two-layer perceptrons (one hidden layer) and arbitrary decision regions with three-layer perceptrons (two hidden layers). Here we demonstrate that two-layer perceptron classifiers trained with back propagation can form both convex and disjoint decision regions. Such classif...

Phylogenetic networks can model reticulate evolutionary events such as hybridization, recombination, and horizontal gene transfer. However, reconstructing such networks is not trivial. Popular character-based methods are computationally inefficient, whereas distance-based methods cannot guarantee reconstruction accuracy because pairwise genetic distances only reflect partial information about a...