The greatest threat to potato production world-wide is late blight, caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. A screen of 126 wild diploid Solanum accessions from the Commonwealth Potato Collection (CPC) with P. infestans isolates belonging to the genotype 13-A2 identified resistances in the species S. bulbocastanum, S. capsicibaccatum, S. microdontum, S. mochiquense, S. okadae, S...

It was a most joyous occasion to celebrate Professor Van Mow’s 70th Birthday on January 10, 2009 at the International Symposium on the Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering held at the Doral Arrowwood Conference Center, Rye Brook, NY. Van has had a most outstanding career in bioengineering as a scholar and leader that spanned over four decades. Indeed, he has fully utilized his superb intellectua...

In this paper we derive two robustly stable model predictive control (MPC) schemes for the class of piecewise linear (PWL) and hybrid systems. We assume that the plant model is subject to unknown but bounded disturbances and the states of the system can be measured or estimated. We derive a piecewise feedback controller based on linear matrix inequalities (LMI) that stabilizes the nominal syste...

In this work, we study two approaches for the problem of RNA-Protein Interaction (RPI). In the first approach, we use a feature-based technique by combining extracted features from both sequences and secondary structures. The feature-based approach enhanced the prediction accuracy as it included much more available information about the RNA-protein pairs. In the second approach, we apply search...

In this paper we discuss the most recent evaluation of the RPI language identi cation system by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). This system is based on an acousto-phonetic approach where the phonemes present in a language are identi ed by a hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). The HSMM was also developed at RPI. Knowledge of these phonemes provides us with the necessary...

An important question in the alcoholism treatment field is how research findings can be translated into real-world clinical practice. Researchers have developed a new research-practice integration (RPI) model that can both drive the formulation of studies and new research questions and promote improvements in treatment quality. The hallmark of this model is a collaborative relationship between ...

We used Stanford Corenlp toolkit (Manning et al., 2014b) for English name tagging. To extract name mentions from Chinese and Spanish documents, we use bi-directional LSTMs (Long Short Term Memory) networks which can leverage long distance features. The input of the networks are pretrained word embeddings and randomly generalized character embeddings. Both word embedding and character embeddings...

In Resent year Popularity of Home automation has been increasing due to low cost and simplicity through Smartphone and tablet connectivity. It is an automation of home or house hold activity. Raspberry Pi is a small computer, which was introduced in the year of 2012; it is currently a mainstream system subject to extensive availability that can be used in home automation. It is estimated that u...

INTRODUCTION: Prediction of bone fracture goes beyond bone mineral density measurement. The quality of bone matrix is instrumental in providing fracture resistance to bone. Thus assessment of bone quality is critical to understanding bone fracture. Reference point indentation (RPI) purports to measure bone matrix quality in vivo and has been shown to separate fracture and non-fracture groups wi...

Both the UK spot and futures markets in short term interest rates are found to react strongly to surprises in the scheduled announcements of the repo rate and RPI. Therefore these announcements should also affect the market for options on short term interest rates. Because the repo rate and RPI announcements are scheduled, the options market can predict the days on which announcement shocks may...