A fundamental component of modern trackers is an online learned tracking model, which is typically modeled either globally or locally. The two kinds of models perform differently in terms of effectiveness and robustness under different challenging situations. This work exploits the advantages of both models. A subspace model, from a global perspective, is learned from previously obtained target...

An offline transmission completion time minimization problem for an energy harvesting transmitter is considered. Specifically, optimal power and rate allocation for data packets arriving at arbitrary but known instances is studied. Communication takes place under a fading channel and transmitter is restricted with a limited energy storage capability. An optimal policy takes into account the cha...

To ful ll the future demand for and increase the reliability of mobile cellular service, we have explored the use of a call admission policy that constitutes a dynamic channel allocation scheme for a cellular system. The call admission policy optimizes a weighted blocking criteria for a queueing network model of a mobile cellular system. In this context, the call admission problem is formulated...

An offline transmission completion time minimization problem for an energy harvesting transmitter is considered. Specifically, optimal power and rate allocation for data packets arriving at arbitrary but known instances is studied. Communication takes place under a fading channel and transmitter is restricted with a limited energy storage capability. An optimal policy takes into account the cha...

The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a chloride channel with 12 membrane-spanning sequences, undergoes inefficient maturation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Potentially charged residues in transmembrane segments may contribute to this defect in biogenesis. We demonstrate that transmembrane segment 6 of CFTR, which contains three basic amino acids, is extremely uns...

A novel micro-stepwise injection analyzer (μSWIA) has been developed for the automation and miniaturization of spectrophotometric analysis. The main unit of this device is a mixing chamber (MC) connected to the atmosphere. This part of the μSWIA provides rapid and effective homogenization of the reaction mixture components and completion of the reaction by means of gas bubbling. The μSWIA conta...

this paper reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate the cultural and social complexities governing the compliment responses among the persian native speakers. 200 persian respondents took a 24-item discourse completion task (dct) while 15 native field workers were also set responsible for collecting the examples of complimenting exchanges they either observed or participated i...