We demonstrate an effective mode selector design that enables a terahertz quantum cascade wire laser to have a robust single-mode operation at frequencies much lower than the gain peak. This is achieved by selectively guiding the undesired modes into a lossy session while keeping the desired lasing mode largely unperturbed. The large mode discrimination obtained by this mode selector is necessa...

We study an extension of disjunctive logic programs called set constraint disjunctive (SCD) programs where the clauses of the program are allowed to have a disjunction of monotone set constraints in their head and arbitrary monotone and antimonotone set constraints in their body. We introduce new class of models called selector stable models which represent all models which can be computed by a...

One approach to estimating the spectral density of a stationary time series is to smooth the peri-odogram and one important component of this approach is the choice of the span for smoothing. This note proposes a new span selector which is based on unbiased risk estimation. The proposed span selector is simple, and does not impose strong conditions on the unknown spectrum. For example , it does...

The development of a dedicated automated sequential-injection analysis apparatus for anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV) and adsorptive stripping voltammetry (AdSV) is reported. The instrument comprised a peristaltic pump, a multiposition selector valve and a home-made potentiostat and used a mercury-film electrode as the working electrodes in a thin-layer electrochemical detector. Programming o...

The Dantzig selector (Candès and Tao, 2007) is a popular ℓ1-regularization method for variable selection and estimation in linear regression. We present a very weak geometric condition on the observed predictors which is related to parallelism and, when satisfied, ensures the uniqueness of Dantzig selector estimators. The condition holds with probability 1, if the predictors are drawn from a co...

Individual neuronal cell types are defined by the expression of unique batteries of terminal differentiation genes. The elucidation of the cis-regulatory architecture of several distinct, single neuron type-specific gene batteries in Caenorhabditis elegans has revealed a strikingly simple cis-regulatory logic, in which small cis-regulatory motifs are activated in postmitotic neurons by autoregu...

A common approach in resolving enantiomers of chiral basic drugs by capillary electrophoresis (CE) is to use cyclodextrins (especially their anionic derivatives) as chiral selector in the acidic buffer (pH ≤ 3) in normal or reversed (carrier) mode. Then, some organic modifiers are added to the buffer solution if the resolution is not satisfactory. In case of cetirizine (CTN), applying the same ...

Garbage collection algorithms are widely used in programming languages like Java. However, selecting the most suitable garbage (GC) algorithm for an application is a complex task since they behave differently regarding crucial performance metrics such as pause time, throughput, and memory usage. This challenge particularly more complicated there currently no available tool to assist users/devel...

The performance of telephone-based speaker verification systems can be severely degraded by linear and non-linear acoustic distortion caused by telephone handsets. This paper proposes to combine a handset selector with stochastic feature transformation to reduce the distortion. Specifically, a GMMbased handset selector is trained to identify the most likely handset used by the claimants, and th...