The link between anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, and concomitantly increasing global temperatures is established and accepted. The use of aqueous ammonia, to capture CO2 and produce an inexpensive nitrogen fertilizer, ammonium bicarbonate (ABC), is believed to be a feasible approach to CO2 sequestration. Due to the varying concentrations of reactant...

Large distributed, heterogeneous systems (LDHS’s) are increasingly critical to our computational infrastructure, but security research in this area has been difficult. Traditional approaches involve time-consuming and non-repeatable red-team attacks, where results are often incomplete and difficult to interpret. An alternative involves formal analysis of models, but this approach is not feasibl...

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a popular technique for approximating likelihoods and is often used in parameter estimation when the likelihood functions are analytically intractable. Although the use of ABC is widespread in many fields, there has been little investigation of the theoretical properties of the resulting estimators. In this paper we give a theoretical analysis of the as...

ATP-binding cassette (ABC) proteins constitute a large family in plants with more than 120 members each in Arabidopsis and rice, and have various functions including the transport of auxin and alkaloid, as well as the regulation of stomata movement. In this report, we carried out genome-wide analysis of ABC protein genes in a model legume plant, Lotus japonicus. For analysis of the Lotus genome...

The depletion of phosphate rock reserves has led to the search for new, alternative and environmentally friendly products processes. One safe sources is animal bone char (ABC), residue from pyrolysis meat meal (MBM), a slaughterhouse waste material. presented study investigated physico-chemical properties residues (ABC) obtained MBM under different treatment conditions. Two end temperatures (60...

Although approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) has become a popular technique for performing parameter estimation when the likelihood functions are analytically intractable there has not as yet been a complete investigation of the theoretical properties of the resulting estimators. In this paper we give a theoretical analysis of the asymptotic properties of ABC based parameter estimators for h...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY After years of advocating ABC (Airway-Breathing-Circulation), current guidelines of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) recommend CAB (Circulation-Airway-Breathing). This trial compared ABC with CAB as initial approach to CPR from the arrival of rescuers until the completion of the first resuscitation cycle. METHODS 108 teams, consisting of two physicians each, were rand...

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) have become an essential tool for the analysis of complex stochastic models. Grelaud et al. [(2009) Bayesian Anal 3:427-442] advocated the use of ABC for model choice in the specific case of Gibbs random fields, relying on an intermodel sufficiency property to show that the approximation was legitimate. We implemented ABC model choice in a wide range of ph...

Interactive responses and natural, intuitive controls are important for data analysis. We are building ABC, a scal-able spreadsheet for data analysis that combines exploration , grouping, and aggregation. We focus on interactive responses in place of long delays, and intuitive, direct-manipulation operations in place of complex queries. ABC allows analysts to interactively explore the data at v...

Internal organs in vertebrates show distinctive left–right asymmetry. To establish left–right patterning, creation of a leftward flow plays a critical role. However, how this flow function or how this flow is sensed is still debated, because a flow sensor itself has not been identified yet. Here we show a medaka mutant abecobe (abc), isolated by our recent ENU-mediated mutagenesis screening wit...