The Ruyang (Mesoproterozoic; Pt2) and Luoyu (Neoproterozoic; Pt3) groups in the southern North China Platform are dominated by peritidal siliciclastic rocks and contain abundant microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS), including multidirected and mat-protected ripple marks, mat chips, mat-smoothed ripple marks, various sand cracks, and irregular growth ridges. These MISS can be groupe...

In this paper, a procedure for segmenting and classifying scanned legume leaves based only on the analysis of their veins is proposed (leaf shape, size, texture and color are discarded). Three legume species are studied, namely soybean, red and white beans. The leaf images are acquired using a standard scanner. The segmentation is performed using the unconstrained hit-or-miss transform and adap...

Katherine Mansfield, remembered as one of the finest writers of English short stories, enjoys enduring fame and a somewhat awesome literary status with her short stories, Miss Brill as one of her representative pieces. The interest of our Chinese critics, in general, locates more in the modernist techniques and devices she employs to present the inner world of the characters in her stories, tha...

Introduction: The 2013 American College of Cardiology/ American Heart Association postulated four blood biomarkers for riskstratification and management of heart failure (HF). We proposed a severity index score to assess myocardial injury by integrating the four biomarkers (Troponin I or T, B-type natriuretic peptide or N-terminal BNP, galectin-3, and ST2) and an inclusive score for the therape...

BACKGROUND Because maternal mortality is a rare event, it is important to study maternal near-miss as a complement to evaluate and improve the quality of obstetric care. Thus, the study was conducted with the aim of assessing the incidence and causes of maternal near-miss. METHODS A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted in five selected public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia f...

Position heaps are index structures of text strings used for the string matching problem. They rooted trees whose edges and nodes labeled numbered, respectively. This paper is concerned with variants inverse problem position heap construction gives linear-time algorithms those problems. The basic to restore a from tree numbered nodes. In variant problems, input may miss edge labels or node numb...

Randomising set index functions, randomisation functions for short, can significantly reduce conflict misses in data caches by placing cache blocks in a conflict-free manner. XOR-based functions are a broad class of functions that generally exhibit few conflict misses. Topham and González claimed that the sub-class of functions based on division of polynomials over contains those functions that...

Cache miss rates are quoted for a speciic program, cache connguration, and input set; the eeect of program layout on the miss rate has largely been ignored. This paper examines the miss variation, that is, the variation of the miss rate for instruction and data caches resulting from randomly chosen layouts. New layouts were generated by changing the order of the modules on the command line when...