Dams have been always considered as the important infrastructures and their critical values are counted. Hence, evaluation and avoidance of dams’ destruction have a specific importance. Seepage occurrence in dams is an inevitable phenomenon. Despite all the progress in geotechnical engineering, up to now, seepage problem is the main conflict which occurs in dams. This study tried to estimate se...

We created a visualization tool called Circos to facilitate the identification and analysis of similarities and differences arising from comparisons of genomes. Our tool is effective in displaying variation in genome structure and, generally, any other kind of positional relationships between genomic intervals. Such data are routinely produced by sequence alignments, hybridization arrays, genom...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are making sequence data available on an unprecedented scale. In this context, new catalogs of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and mutations generated by resequencing studies are usually stored in genome position files (e.g. Variant Call Format, SAMTools pileup, BED, GFF) comprising of large lists of genomic positions, which are difficult to handle b...

We study the statistics of local field distribution solved by the Green’sfunction formalism (GFF) [Y. Gu et al., Phys. Rev. B 59 12847 (1999)] in the disordered binary resonant composites. For a percolating network, the inverse participation ratios (IPR) with q = 2 are illustrated, as well as the typical local field distributions of localized and extended states. Numerical calculations indicate...

Vanadium suboxide (VOx) layers deposited by an electro-spray (e-spray) printing method were applied to the fabrication of high efficiency patterned polymer solar cell (PSC) modules. By tailoring surface tension and the atomization condition of the e-sprayed sol precursor, e-sprayed VOx layers on top of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces were successfully obtained, which enabled alternati...

This article documents the public availability of genome sequence data and assembled contigs representing the partial draft genome of Ophiocordyceps bispora. As one of the few known pathogens of fungus-farming termites, a draft genome of O. bispora represents the opportunity to further the understanding of disease and resistance in these complex termite societies. With the ongoing attempts to r...

Experiments with the Switzerland Heart Disease database have concentrated on attempting to distinguish presence and absence. The classifiers based on various neural networks, namely, MLP, PCA, Jordan, GFF, Modular, RBF, SOFM, SVM NNs and conventional statistical techniques such as DA and CART are optimally designed, thoroughly examined and performance measures are compared in this study. With c...

SUMMARY NTAP is designed to analyze ChIP-chip data generated by the NimbleGen tiling array platform and to accomplish various pattern recognition tasks that are useful especially for epigenetic studies. The modular design of NTAP makes the data processing highly customizable. Users can either use NTAP to perform the full process of NimbleGen tiling array data analysis, or choose post-processing...

Reciprocal customers may disproportionately improve the performance of markets for experience goods. Reciprocal customers reward (punish) …rms for providing good (bad) quality by upholding (terminating) the customer relation. This may induce …rms to provide good quality which, in turn, may induce a positive externality for nonreciprocal customers who would, in the absence of reciprocal types, f...

For ??(0,2), U?C, and an instance h of the Gaussian free field (GFF) on U, ?-Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surface associated with (U,h) is formally described by Riemannian metric tensor e?h(dx2+dy2) U. Previous work authors showed that one can define a canonical (distance function) Dh U ?-LQG surface. We show this conformally covariant in sense it respects coordinate change formula for surfa...