In mass spectrometry(MS-) based quantitative proteomics research, the emerging iTRAQ (isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation) and TMT (tandem mass tags) techniques have been widely adopted for high throughput protein profiling. In a typical iTRAQ/TMT proteomics study, samples are grouped into batches and each batch is processed by one multiplex experiment, in which the abundances o...

The study was carried out to assess the reproductive abilities of White Plymouth Rock (WPR) and Barred Plymouth Rock (BPR) parent stock (layer breeders) reared under similar housing (deep litter), management and agro-climatic conditions. A total of 1,763,322 and 1,732,966 fertilized eggs were produced by WPR and BPR, respectively, during the observed period which lasted four years (2002-2005). ...

We study the properties of the endpoint of stochastic gradient descent (SGD). By approximating SGD as a stochastic differential equation (SDE) we consider the Boltzmann-Gibbs equilibrium distribution of that SDE under the assumption of isotropic variance in loss gradients. Through this analysis, we find that three factors – learning rate, batch size and the variance of the loss gradients – cont...

In this paper we study batch classiication problems where multiple predictions are made simultaneously, in contrast to the standard independent classiication case, where the predictions are made independently one at a time. The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate how the standard EM algorithm for nite mixture models can be modiied for the batch classiication case. In the empirical...

The focus of this work is to revise for semi-batch and continuous operations, the model equations of a seeded batch cooling crystallisation of α-lactose monohydrate. A case study of evaporative semi-batch operation is also included for reference as models of cooling and heating are not much different. In order to achieve the highest yield, dynamic optimisations must be performed on these models...

For the operation of the nonstop service systems, some methods have been put to practical use to perform the batch update concurrently with the online entries. However, the whole batch update cannot be executed as a transaction by the conventional methods. So, in the case where a transaction failure occurs in the batch update, there is the problem that the rollback of the update cannot be execu...