Since the proposal of domain based protein-protein interaction prediction method by [3], there are many attempts to improve domain based protein-protein interaction prediction methods [1]. Among them, domain combination based protein-protein interaction method by [2] is quite appealing in the sense that it achieves very impressive prediction accuracy in some situations. However there is no conc...

To my treasured wife Marti-my eternal companion To the Lord Jesus Christ iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS They have encouraged, advised and led me along this path. I want to thank members of the Meiler Lab – Dr. Edward W. Lowe for his help with GPU acceleration, Brian Weiner for his help in programming and introduction to the lab, Mariusz Butkeivicz and Jeff Mendenhall for their insight and assistance thro...

Particle in cell simulations applied to space weather modelling represent an excellent application for codesign efforts. PIC codes are simple and flexible with many variants addressing different physical conditions (e.g. explicit, implicit, hybrid, gyrokinetic, fluid) and different architectures (e.g. vector, parallel, GPU). It is relatively easy to consider radical changes and test them in a s...

slope stability analysis is an enduring research topic in the engineering and academic sectors. accurate prediction of the factor of safety (fos) of slopes, their stability, and their performance is not an easy task. in this work, the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (anfis) was utilized to build an estimation model for the prediction of fos. three anfis models were implemented including g...

Single and Multi-CPU Performance Modeling for Embedded Systems

This paper describes the realization of a corpus-based Chinese speech synthesis system, including the corpus design and unit selection procedure. The system selects the synthesis unit according to context similarity between target unit and candidate unit. Neither prosody parameter prediction nor prosody feature modification is needed. The informal test shows that the synthesized speech is quite...

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans's cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the ...

HEVC doubles the coding efficiency with more than 4x coding complexity as compared to H.264/AVC. To alleviate the burden of Intra encoder, we estimate the RD-cost from the source image textures, and dynamically select two promising CU/PU mode candidates to execute exhaustive RDO processing. As integrated in our hardwired encoder, the averaged 61.7% computation complexity was saved with 4.53% ra...

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans''s cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the...