Genotype × environmental interaction (GEI) is an important consideration in plant breeding programs because it reduces the progress from selection in any one environment (Hill, 1975). Significant GEI results from the changes in the magnitude of differences between genotypes in different environments or changes in the relative ranking of the genotypes. Consistent performances across different si...

OBJECTIVES Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease-the most costly epidemics of our time-share a common but rarely treated mechanism: autonomic imbalance. We examined the contribution of autonomic imbalance, relative to selected demographic and biobehavioral risk factors, to the development of metabolic syndrome in a community sample for 12 years. METHODS We identified offspring cohort participa...

We study the effect of fading in the communication channels between nodes on the performance of the incremental least mean square (ILMS) algorithm. We derive steadystate performance metrics, including the mean-square deviation (MSD), excess mean-square error (EMSE), and mean-square error (MSE). We obtain the sufficient conditions to ensure meansquare convergence, and verify our results through ...

This paper presents the results of the General Regression Neural Networks applications for the prediction of propagation path loss in a specific urban environment. We have studied two neural network models; the first one is used for path loss prediction while the second one is a prediction model using error control. The performances of the neural models are compared to the path loss values meas...

The size of conformational ensembles required for regular coverage of the conformational space of druglike molecules was examined. Using the conformer generation program Omega, the number of regularly distributed conformers (NRC) of flexible compounds was determined as a function of the root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) resolution of coverage. A regression equation was developed predicting the ...

A set of perception experiments, using reiterant speech, were designed to carry out a diagnostic of the segmentation / hierarchisation linguistic function of prosody. The prosodic parameters of F0, syllabic duration and intensity of the stimuli used during this experiment were extracted. Several dissimilarity measures (Correlation, root-mean-square distance and mutual information) were used to ...

This Letter presents a novel, computationally efficient interpolation method that has been optimised for use in electrocardiogram baseline drift removal. In the authors' previous Letter three isoelectric baseline points per heartbeat are detected, and here utilised as interpolation points. As an extension from linear interpolation, their algorithm segments the interpolation interval and utilise...