The Banach–Picard iteration is widely used to find fixed points of locally contractive (LC) maps. This article extends the distributed settings; specifically, we assume map which point sought be average individual (not necessarily LC) maps held by a set agents linked communication network. An additional difficulty that LC not assumed come from an underlying optimization problem, prevents exploi...

SCI is based on unidirectional point-to-point links forming ringlets that can be connected with switches to allow further scaling. This paper presents performance results from running on a number of differently configured SCI clusters. The SCI technology used is Dolphin’s second generation PCI/SCI adapter based on the LC-2 LinkController chip as well as a new 4 port, LC-2 based switch. Nodes ar...

Competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) act as molecular sponges for microRNAs (miRNAs), and are associated with tumorigenesis in various cancers, including laryngeal cancer (LC). In this work, we constructed an LC-specific inflammatory gene-related ceRNA network (IceNet). In IceNet, ceRNAs targeting inflammation-related genes tended to be network hubs. Additionally, the betweenness centralities o...

This paper addresses the voltage droop compensation associated with long pulses generated by solid-stated based high-voltage Marx topologies. In particular a novel design scheme for voltage droop compensation in solid-state based bipolar Marx generators, using low-cost circuitry design and control, is described. The compensation consists of adding one auxiliary PWM stage to the existing Marx st...

The importance of n-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) for human health has received more focus the last decades, and the global consumption of n-3 LC-PUFA has increased. Seafood, the natural n-3 LC-PUFA source, is harvested beyond a sustainable capacity, and it is therefore imperative to develop alternative n-3 LC-PUFA sources for both eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3) and ...

State-dependent activity of locus ceruleus (LC) neurons has long suggested a role for noradrenergic modulation of arousal. However, in vivo insights into noradrenergic arousal circuitry have been constrained by the fundamental inaccessibility of the human brain for invasive studies. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies performed during site-specific pharmacological manipulations...

Abstract In this study, we propose a nonlinear Bayesian extension of the Lee–Carter (LC) model using single-stage procedure with dimensionality reduction neural network (NN). LC is originally estimated two-stage procedure: data by singular value decomposition followed time series fitting. To address limitations LC, which are attributed to estimation and insufficient fitness data, procedures sta...

twenty six rhizobium strains were isolated from root nodules of sesbania sesban (l.) merr. collected from different regions of andhra pradesh. all the 26 rhizobium strains produced indole acetic acid (iaa), but maximum amount was produced by only five strains in yeast extract mannitol  (yem) medium supplemented with l-tryptophan. the strains were found to elaborate maximum iaa when fed with 2.5...