Life-history traits represent organisms' strategies to navigate the fitness trade-offs between survival and reproduction. Eric Charnov developed three dimensionless metrics quantify fundamental life-history trade-offs. Lifetime reproductive effort (LRE), relative lifespan (RRL) offspring size (ROS), together with body mass can be used classify across four major classes of tetrapods: amphibians,...

Linear Relational Embedding (LRE) was introduced (Paccanaro and Hinton, 1999) as a means of extracting a distributed representation of concepts from relational data. The original formulation cannot use negative information and cannot properly handle data in which there are multiple correct answers. In this paper we propose an extended formulation of LRE that solves both these problems. We prese...

Multivariate batch time-series data sets within Semiconductor manufacturing processes present a difficult environment for effective Anomaly Detection (AD). The challenge is amplified by the limited availability of ground truth labelled data. In scenarios where AD possible, black box modelling approaches constrain model interpretability. These challenges obstruct widespread adoption Deep Learnin...

Rare-earth metal carboryne complexes LRE(C2B10H10)(thf)n [n = 2, RE Y (1a), Er (1b); n 1, (2); L 2-(2,5-Me2C4H2N)C6H4NC(Ph)N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)] were synthesized in good yields via either an alkane elimination reaction of rare-earth dialkyls LRE(CH2SiMe3)2 with 1 equiv o-carborane (o-C2B10H12) THF or a salt metathesis yttrium dichloride LYCl2(thf)3 Li2C2B10H10 toluene. They could be viewed as class ...

Studies of sex allocation offer excellent opportunities for examining the constraints and limits on adaptation. A major topic of debate within this field concerns the extent to which the ability of individuals to adaptively manipulate their offspring sex ratio is determined by constraints such as the method of sex determination. We address this problem by comparing the extent of sex-ratio adjus...

A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model Ridder and Woutersen (2003) have shown that under a weak condition on the baseline hazard there exist root-N consistent estimators of the parameters in a semiparametric Mixed Proportional Hazard model with a parametric baseline hazard and unspecified distribution of the unobserved heterogeneity. We extend the Linear ...

A simple yet efficient state reconstruction algorithm of linear regression estimation (LRE) is presented for quantum state tomography. In this method, quantum state reconstruction is converted into a parameter estimation problem of a linear regression model and the least-squares method is employed to estimate the unknown parameters. An asymptotic mean squared error (MSE) upper bound for all pos...

We had earlier reported that mutations to G and C at the seventh and eighth positions in the prototype TATA-box TCACTATATATAG inhibited light-dependent activation of transcription from the promoter. In this study, we characterized mutations at the ninth position of the prototype TATA-box. Substitution of T at the ninth position with G or C enhanced transcription from the promoter in transgenic ...

The activity regenerating luciferin from the luminescent product oxyluciferin was found in the protein fraction of a lantern extract from Photinus pyralis. The protein, luciferin-regenerating enzyme (LRE), was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipitation followed by successive column chromatography on Ultrogel AcA34, S-Sepharose FF, Q-Sepharose FF, TSKgel super Q 5pw and TSKgel G30...

The baseline approach in building phonotactic language recognition systems is to characterize each language by a single phonotactic model generated from all the available languagespecific training data. When several data sources are available for a given target language, system performance can be improved using language source-dependent phonotactic models. In this case, the common practice is t...