Introduction: DFEs have been widely used to remove intersymbol interference from the data received through communication channels [1]. In situations where blind adaptation of DFEs is required, algorithms based on the constant modulus criterion [2] for joint updating of the feedforward and feedback filters may converge to degenerated solutions. This occurs when the signal at the equalizer output...

AIMS Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective mechanism for the degradation of soluble cytosolic proteins bearing the sequence KFERQ. These proteins are targeted by chaperones and delivered to lysosomes where they are translocated into the lysosomal lumen and degraded via the lysosome-associated membrane protein type 2A (LAMP-2A). Mutations in LAMP2 that inhibit autophagy result in Dan...

Composite Module Analyst (CMA) is a novel software tool aiming to identify promoter-enhancer models based on the composition of transcription factor (TF) binding sites and their pairs. CMA is closely interconnected with the TRANSFAC database. In particular, CMA uses the positional weight matrix (PWM) library collected in TRANSFAC and therefore provides the possibility to search for a large vari...

The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture for network games uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck and to reduce the client-to-server delay time. Response time in MS can be reduced by optimally assigning clients to their mirrors. The goal of optimal client-to-mirror-assignment (CMA) is to achieve the minimum average client-to-mirror delay cons...

Maternal nutrient intake during pregnancy and lactation potentially influences the development of allergic diseases. Cows' milk allergy (CMA) is often the first manifestation of atopic diseases, but the impact of early nutritional influences on CMA has not been explored. The associations between maternal intakes of folate, folic acid and vitamin D during pregnancy and lactation were addressed i...

This paper presents an initialization scheme for a constant modulus algorithm (CMA) adaptive antenna. With the proposed scheme, the direction of arrival (DOA) of signals is estimated by using nonconventional least square optimization. The antenna steering vector associated with the estimated DOA is used as an initial weight vector for CMA. Simulations were conducted to evaluate the performance ...

Adaptive blind equalization for multipath channels has gained widespread intention in wireless communication applications. Unfortunately, inherent distortion in multipath channel requires sophisticated equalization algorithms. Thus, computational complexity reduction has motivated the use of dithered signed-error constant modulus algorithm (DSE-CMA) to replace the widely used CMA algorithm. In ...

This study used an online concept mapping activity (CMA) featuring peer learning to enhance learning achievement in concept application. Ninety-seven graduate students participated in this study. The students who participated in the online CMA could later apply the concepts with significantly higher performance and greater fidelity than those who did not. Findings of this study advance CMA for ...