The genome-probing microarray (GPM) was developed for quantitative, high-throughput monitoring of community dynamics in lactic acid bacteria (LAB) fermentation through the deposit of 149 microbial genomes as probes on a glass slide. Compared to oligonucleotide microarrays, the specificity of GPM was remarkably increased to a species-specific level. GPM possesses about 10- to 100-fold higher sen...

Neuroinflammation is an important component of many neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Microglia and astrocytes play a key role in neuroinflammation. Activated glial cells under neuroinflammatory condition produce proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, nitric oxide (NO), and other neurotoxic mediators. Thus, it has been conventionally thought that the inhibition of such glial act...

For Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) to be implemented in real application, data driven models are advantageous since they can be easily constructed and are relatively fast, compared to first principle based models (simplified calculation [ISO 13790], dynamic simulation [EnergyPlus, ESP-r, TRNSYS, etc.], state space models, etc.). Gaussian Process Model (GPM), one of the data-driven ap...

Processor arrays are frequently used to deliver high performance in many applications with computationally intensive operations. This paper presents the General Parameter Method (GP-M), a systematic parameter-based approach for synthesizing such algorithm-speciic architec-tures. GPM can synthesize processor arrays of any lower dimension from a uniform-recurrence description of the algorithm. Th...

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is poised to be the next generation precipitation observations from space after the TRMM mission. The GPM will carry a dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR), operating at Ku and Ka band frequencies. Since space-borne precipitation observations have never been done in Ka band before, extensive research work on dualfrequency radar, including electromagnet...

Genetic redundancy is ubiquitous and can be found in any organism. However, it has been argued that genetic redundancy reduces total population fitness, and therefore, redundancy is unlikely to evolve. In this letter, we study an evolutionary model with high-dimensional genotype-phenotype mapping (GPM) to investigate the relevance of complexity in GPM to the evolution of genetic redundancy. By ...

In common GP approaches, the space of genotypes (search space) is identical to the space of phenotypes (solution space). Facts and theories from molecular biology suggest the introduction of non-identical genospaces and phenospaces, and a generic genotype-phenotype mapping (GPM) which maps unconstrained genotypes into syntactically correct phenotypes. Neutral variants come into eeect due to GPM...

Global precipitation measurement is essential not only for the research of the global change but also for the water resources management. Currently, satellite precipitation measurement is not sufficient for the detailed study of the precipitation and is far from enough for the water resources management which requires very high spatial and temporal resolution. To fill the gap at least partly, t...

The Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) will employ a constellation of ~8 satellites to measure precipitation between +/-65o latitude[1]. The GPM constellation will fly microwave radiometers accompanied by a core “reference” satellite carrying a Ka-Ku band dual-frequency radar (DPR) and an improved passive microwave radiometer (GMI; frequencies 10-183 GHz). Fundamentally, the improved GPM remote...

Capturing ammonia from anaerobically digested manure could simultaneously decrease the adverse effects of ammonia inhibition on biogas production, reduce reactive nitrogen (N) loss to the environment, and produce mineral N fertilizer as a by-product. In this study, gas permeable membranes (GPM) were used to capture ammonia from dairy manure and digestate by the diffusion of gaseous ammonia acro...