This paper describes the design policy and specifications of the RWC Music Database, a music database (DB) that is available to researchers for common use and research purposes. Various commonly available DBs have been built in other research fields and have made a significant contribution to the research in those fields. The field of musical information processing, however, has lacked a common...

We have been conducting research to develop a music information retrieval system which retrieves music based on user preferences. In order to conduct evaluation experiments, it is necessary to accumulate an experiment set of music data, and collect user ratings of each music data included in this data set. Two music data sets were prepared for user evaluation: the RWC Popular Music Database, wh...

Understanding how plants tolerate dehydration is a prerequisite for developing novel strategies for improving drought tolerance. The desiccation-tolerant (DT) Sporobolus stapfianus and the desiccation-sensitive (DS) Sporobolus pyramidalis formed a sister group contrast to reveal adaptive metabolic responses to dehydration using untargeted global metabolomic analysis. Young leaves from both gras...

We overview our recent research on planetary mobility. Products of this effort include the Field Integrated Design & Operations rover (FIDO), Sample Return Rover (SRR), reconfigurable rover units that function as an All Terrain Explorer (ATE), and a multi-Robot Work Crew of closely cooperating rovers (RWC). FIDO rover is an advanced technology prototype; its design and field testing support NAS...

Sources of PM2.5 at the Fresno Supersite during high PM2.5 episodes occurring from 15 December 2000–3 February 2001 were estimated with the Chemical Mass Balance (CMB) receptor model. The ability of source profiles with organic markers to distinguish motor vehicle, residential wood combustion (RWC), and cooking emissions was evaluated with simulated data. Organics improved the distinction betwe...

In this paper we describe the pipeline design and enhanced hardware for fast message handling in a RICA-1 processor, a processing element (PE) in the RWC-1 multiprocessor. The RWC-1 is based on the reduced inter-processor communication architecture (RICA), in which communications are combined with computation in the processor pipeline. The pipeline is enhanced with hardware mechanisms to suppor...

Abstract Background As a biennial plant, Secale cereale L is usually harvested in the autumn northern part of China where temperature difference between day and night great disparity Through pot experiment, seedlings were cut to 2, 6 10 cm stubble height, simulated freeze-thaw (FT) stress (10/− 5 °C) was carried out after days regrowth. The physiological effects FT with different height reveale...

Osmotic and oxidative stress responses to iso-osmotic (-0.4 Mpa) NaCl, PEG-6000 and mannitol stress were studied in 15-day old plants of three potato cultivars viz. ‘Kufri Kufri Bahar’ ‘Jyoti’ and ‘Chandramukhi’. After 2-weeks of treatment, plants were analyzed for biochemical and physiological determinants of stress. Relative water content (RWC) and membrane damage rate (MDR) were significantl...