During the perception of a visual scene, attention can be directed to parts of the space (Posner and Cohen, 1984), distinct features (Treisman and Gelade, 1980) and, as recently shown, also to entire objects (Desimone and Duncan, 1995; Valdes-Sosa et al., 1998; O’Craven et al., 1999; Schoenfeld et al., 2003). Depending on the goals of the observer, those types of selection are flexibly employed...

Since its seminal publication in 1988, the Cellular Neural Network (CNN) (Chua & Yang, 1988) paradigm have attracted research community’s attention, mainly because of its ability for integrating complex computing processes into compact, real-time programmable analogic VLSI circuits (Rodríguez et al., 2004). Unlike cellular automata, the CNN model hosts nonlinear processors which, from analogic ...

Suffix arrays and LCP arrays are one of the most fundamental data structures widely used for various kinds of string processing. Many problems can be solved efficiently by using suffix arrays, or a pair of suffix arrays and LCP arrays. In this paper, we consider two problems for a string of length N , the characters of which are represented as integers in [1, . . . , σ] for 1 ≤ σ ≤ N ; the stri...

The newly developed Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (450K array; Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) allows unprecedented genome-wide profiling of DNA methylation at >450,000 CpG and non-CpG methylation sites (Sandoval et al., 2011). Utilizing the 450K array, Philibert et al. (2012) examined the relationship of recent alcohol intake to genome-wide methylation patterns in lymphoblast DNA s...

High-density microarrays are a rapidly developing technology in molecular biology allowing one to measure simultaneously the activity of thousands of biomolecules in the cell under different experimental conditions. Two-color comparative microarray experiment is a key point of transcriptome (Yang et al., 2002; Herzel et al., 2001; Hegde et al., 2000), CGH (comparative genome hybridization, Pink...