The KEGG RPAIR database is a collection of biochemical structure transformation patterns, called RDM patterns, and chemical structure alignments of substrate-product pairs (reactant pairs) in all known enzyme-catalyzed reactions taken from the Enzyme Nomenclature and the KEGG PATHWAY database. Here, we present PathPred (http://www.genome.jp/tools/pathpred/), a web-based server to predict plausi...

This paper extends two directional distance function models, the Multi-directional Efficiency Analysis (MEA) Model and the Range Directional Model (RDM), in order to account for any type of technical inefficiency, i.e. both directional and non-directional inefficiencies. We first focus on the variable returns to scale (VRS) case, because both VRS-MEA and RDM are translation invariant models, wh...

Summary crop growth models are promising tools for assessing crop yield potentials, but it is necessary to indicate uncertainties in model calculations that result from simplifying assumptions and errors/uncertainties in model input data and parameter values. The present study attempts to do this for soil factors that affect the water balance of land-use systems with sugarcane (Saccharum spp. L...

Data mining (DM) has emerged as one of the key features of many applications on information system. While Data Analysis (DA) represents a significant advance in the type of analytical tools currently available, there are limitations to its capability. In order to address one of the limitations on the DA capabilities of identifying a causal relationship, we propose an integrated approach, called...

This study builds on Laufer and Hulstijn’s (2001) motivational-cognitive construct of task-induced involvement in learning vocabulary and addresses itself to its strong claim that the depth of processing is the overriding factor in learning words. The paper first re-examines the effect of processing load and then of task type on the initial learning and retention of words. To do so, 60 EFL lear...

Traffic engineering (TE) optimizes the performance of a network by analyzing and regulating the data transmission. Traffic engineering with link coloring (TELIC) was proposed to automatically assign LSPs in multi-protocol label switching domain based on bandwidth and class of service attributes. TELIC dynamically assigns colors to links in the network domain on the basis of reservable bandwidth...

Interval arithmetic as part of interval mathematics and Granular Computing is unusually important for development of science and engineering in connection with necessity of taking into account uncertainty and approximativeness of data occurring in almost all calculations. Interval arithmetic also conditions development of Artificial Intelligence and especially of automatic thinking, Computing w...

In a Relativistic Diffusion Model (RDM), the evolution of netproton rapidity spectra with √ sNN in heavy systems is proposed as an indicator for local equilibration and longitudinal expansion. The broad midrapidity valley recently discovered at RHIC in central Au + Au collisions at √ sNN= 200 GeV suggests rapid local equilibration which is most likely due to deconfinement, and fast longitudinal...

In many practically important cases, wave propagation described by the reaction-diffusion equation initiates deformation of the medium. Mathematically, such processes are described by coupled reactiondiffusion-mechanics (RDM) systems. RDM systemswere recently used to study the effects of deformation on wave propagation in cardiac tissue, so called mechano-electrical feedback (MEF). In this arti...