Search results for "Scaling"

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of the RNA-RNA interaction underlying a genetic transposition program

2021

Thermodynamic descriptions are powerful tools to formally study complex gene expression programs evolved in living cells on the basis of macromolecular interactions. While transcriptional regulations are often modeled in the equilibrium, other interactions that occur in the cell follow a more complex pattern. Here, we adopt a nonequilibrium thermodynamic scheme to explain the RNA-RNA interaction underlying IS10 transposition. We determine the energy landscape associated with such an interaction at the base-pair resolution, and we present an original scaling law for expression prediction that depends on different free energies characterizing that landscape. Then, we show that massive experim…

SCALING LAWS FOR THE LIFETIMES OF GOVERNMENTS IN THE SZNAJD DEMOCRACY

2005

We investigate the lifetimes of governments in the original and a randomized one-dimensional Sznajd model. We find various scaling laws for the lifetime of the democracy and for the reigning time of governments in this model, depending on the system size N.

Tīmekļa lietotņu horizontāla mērogošana

2015

Kursa darba mērķis ir veikt praktisku pētījumu par tīmekļa lietotņu horizontālas mērogošanas realizāciju (slodzes sadalīšanu pa vairākiem serveru mezgliem). Tā kā tīmekļa lietotņu servera puses valodu un risinājumu ir daudz, konkrēti šim darbam tika izvēlētas tirgū visbiežāk sastopamās komponentes – PHP kā servera puses valoda (81.9% tirgus daļa 2015. gada 16. aprīlī [1]) un MySQL kā datubāžu risinājums (populārākā datubāze, ko izmanto kopā ar PHP). Kā papildus datu krātuve tiks izmantots Redis1, kas kalpos kā centralizēts datu kešošanas serveris. Papildus horizontāli mērogojamas serveru infrastruktūras izbūvei, darbā tiks apskatīti arī veidi, kā maksimāli optimizēt jau esošos resursus pēc …

A Novel Multidimensional Scaling Technique for Mapping Word-Of-Mouth Discussions

2009

The techniques which utilize Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) as a fundamental statistical tool have been well developed since the late 1970’s. In this paper we show how anMDS scheme can be enhanced by incorporating into it a Stochastic Point Location (SPL) strategy (one which optimizes the former’s gradient descent learning phase) and a new Stress function. The enhanced method, referred to as MDS SPL, has been used in conjunction with a combination of the TF-IDF and Cosine Similarities on a very noisy Word-Of-Mouth (WoM) discussion set consisting of postings concerning mobile phones, yielding extremely satisfying results.

Monitoring soft tissue coagulation by optical spectroscopy

2017

Laser tissue welding (LTW) or laser tissue soldering (LTS) is investigated since many years for treatment of incisions, wound closure and anastomosis of vessels [1, 2]. Depending on the process, a certain temperature in the range between 65 °C to 85 °C must be reached and held for a few seconds. Care has to be taken not to overheat the tissue, otherwise necrosis or tissue carbonization may occur and will impair wound healing. Usually the temperature is monitored during the process to control the laser power [3]. This requires either bulky equipment or expensive and fragile infrared fibers to feed the temperature signal to an infrared detector. Alternatively, changes in tissue morphology can…

L'etichettatura dei prodotti agroalimentari nella percezione della qualità secondo i consumatori.

2014

Le informazioni sulle certificazioni di qualità o sulla filiera di produzione, confezionamento e vendita sono, per i consumatori, elementi importanti per individuare prodotti ritenuti sicuri. Tali informazioni, se riportate in etichetta, sono determinanti nelle scelte d’acquisto di taluni segmenti di mercato. L’obiettivo di questo studio è conoscere in che misura la rintracciabilità dei prodotti alimentari, rivelata ai consumatori attraverso le etichette, possa essere considerata un elemento rappresentativo della qualità e della sicurezza, anche attraverso l’utilizzo di strumenti innovativi quale il QR code. Sono stati individuati due Capoluoghi italiani, sulla base della suddivisione ISTAT…

Tecniche e Modelli di Cartografia Digitale Predittiva dei Suoli Basati sull'Approccio SCORPAN per il Downscaling della Nuova Carta dei Suoli della Si…

2013

Integrating multiple stressors in aquaculture to build the blue growth in a changing sea

2017

Fisheries currently represent the main source of animal protein intake worldwide, although catches of most commercial species are at or beyond maximum sustainable yields. Increasing production would require an excess of exploitation levels and aquaculture is expected to become crucial in sustaining a growing seafood demand. Nonetheless, many threats are expected to affect aquaculture and the increased production must evolve in a way that minimizes environmental and socio-economic impacts. The claimed sustainable development of human activities at sea (blue growth and economy) seeks for new joint analyses and solutions at (trans-)national systemic level should be planned and applied. To meet…

Multidimensional Scaling in Cluster Analysis: examples in Science and Mathematics Education

2021

Several researches in STEM education research highlight the advantages of an inte- grated approach to these disciplines that relates knowledge and know-how, design and implementation, theoretical and practical problems [5, 4, 6]. In some researches, the effectiveness of these approaches on students conceptual understanding and motivation and has been studied through the use of quantitative analysis tools such as cluster analysis (CLA) [1, 7]. Through CLA it is possible to characterize students analyzing the strategies they deploy to tackle, for example, questionnaires built so as to investigate the lines of reasoning implemented by them when they are proposed with problematic situations. In…

ConformalALU: A Conformal Geometric Algebra Coprocessor for Medical Image Processing

2015

Medical imaging involves important computational geometric problems, such as image segmentation and analysis, shape approximation, three-dimensional (3D) modeling, and registration of volumetric data. In the last few years, Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA), based on five-dimensional (5D) Clifford Algebra, is emerging as a new paradigm that offers simple and universal operators for the representation and solution of complex geometric problems. However, the widespread use of CGA has been so far hindered by its high dimensionality and computational complexity. This paper proposes a simplified formulation of the conformal geometric operations (reflections, rotations, translations, and uniform …