Nitrification in the hyporheic zone of Sycamore Creek, a Sonoran Desert stream, was examined, focusing on the association between respiration and nitrate production. Subsurface respiration in Sycamore Creek is highest in regions of hydrologic downwelling where organic matter derived from the stream surface is transported into the hyporheic zone. Similarly, nitrification was closely related to h...

We are investigating the fusion of edge information into Markov Random Fields (MRF) region growing based image segmentation. Our goal is to segment the image in a way that would take edge information into consideration. This is achieved by modifying the energy minimization process so that it would penalize merging regions that have real edges in the boundary between them. Experimental results c...

Sequence comparison is a fundamental task in pattern matching. Its applications include file comparison, spelling correction, information retrieval, and computing (dis)similarities between biological sequences. A common scheme for sequence comparison is the longest common subsequence (LCS ) metric. This paper considers the fully incremental LCS computation problem as follows: For any strings A,...

This paper describes the implementation of a Stub Generation system targeted specifically at C++. It enables distributed C++ applications to be constructed in a straightforward manner with minimal programmer assistance. The system does not require the use of an auxiliary interface definition language but instead processes existing C++ header files to maximise transparency. The generated code ex...

Members of the IL-1 family play a key role in innate and adaptive immunity and in the pathogenesis of diverse diseases. Members of IL-1R like receptor (ILR) family include signaling molecules and negative regulators. The latter include decoy receptors (IL-1RII; IL-18BP) and "receptors" with regulatory function (TIR8/SIGIRR; IL-1RAcPb; DIGIRR). Structural considerations suggest that also TIGIRR-...

the purpose followed in this study was to investigate, and identify the educational needs of water users' association members. the research paradigm is quantitative and the study a descriptive applicatory one. statistical population included 1500 members of water users' associations in ramshir irrigation network of khuzestan province, of whom 150 members were selected through random s...

one of the most important challenges for researchers is deciding on how to collect their data. there are various views on using telephone interviews. conducting telephone interviews on women of 40 years old and older in isfahan about mammography screening behavior showed that it could be an appropriate method for data collection when there is a combination of effective communication process and...