... shifting and scaling can be handled by normalization [32, 86] Given a time series s, each data item s[i] can be normalized as s[i] = (s[i] − µ)/σ, where µ and σ are the average and standard deviation ... Sakoe-Chiba band [103] is shown in Figure 2.5 The Sakoe-Chiba band reduces the computational cost of DTW distance from O(mn) to O(wn), where m and n are the lengths of two time series, and w is the ... 2.6(a)) and scaling (Figure 2.6(b)), the warping distances of A and B in the two cases will be larger than those of A and C B A B A C C (a) (b) Figure 2.6: The impact of amplitude shifting and scaling...
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... bi-directional expanding is more efficient than backward expanding Bidirectional expanding approach in Banks is random in nature and suffers poor worst-case performance Moreover, Bidirectional expanding ... mandatory and single valued, unless the circle contains a “?” indicating it is optional and single valued, “+” indicating it is mandatory and multi-valued, and “*” indicating it is optional and ... in [47] is over complicated and very inefficient In contrast, DBXplore and Discover can handle the problem more efficiently with Inverted Lists Since DBXplorer [5] and Discover [27] require relational...
... [12] HPLC analyses of bands and (Table 2) indicate that V, A and Z are associated to the Lhcb proteins in band of lut2.1, while in WT only V, N and L are found in bands and http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/6/32 ... carotenoid pigments; band contains the minor antenna complexes CP24, CP29 and CP26, and LHCII monomers; band contains LHCII trimers; band contains the LHCII-CP29-CP24 complex; band contains the PSII ... Table 2: Pigment composition of monomeric Lhcb (from WT and lut2.1) and trimeric LHCII (from WT) Chl a/b WT – band WT – band lut2.1 – band Chl/Car Neo Viola Anthera Lute Zea beta-Car 1.8 ± 0.1...
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... large and growing community of Web users Portable high-performance Web servers reduce the hardware cost of meeting a given service demand and provide the flexibility to change hardware platforms and ... modern operating systems In a UNIX system, AMPED uses the standard nonblocking read, write, and accept system calls on sockets and pipes, and the select system call to test for I/O completion The ... mentioned in Section and modules that handle various caching functions Three types of caches are maintained: filename translations, response headers, and file mappings These caches and their function...
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... people, assets and infrastructure particular city Rica, and its mountainous area and São competitiveness and quality of life Paulo, Brazil, and its water basins.19 Urban planning and design can ... MONITOR AND EVALUATE Page 112 Prepare a monitoring and evaluation framework and a work plan, decide whom to involve, when and how to document and report, evaluate results Step 10 60 ADJUST AND MODIFY ... servoirs Developing and on into vibrant and aestheti- land, water and peocally pleasing lifestyle at- ple? and Clean tractions that integrate with Has the programme Waters parks, estates and even made...
... material of Sections and generalizes (and partly simplifies) methods from [Sg], while that of Sections 8–11 extends techniques introduced in [N1] and [N2] 178 NIKOLAY NIKOLOV AND DAN SEGAL We are ... epimorphism π : Fd → G and put gi = π(w(ui )) for i = 1, , d Then G1 = w(G) = g1 , , gd and for each i we have gi = w(π(ui )) ∈ X Note that d depends only on w and d, and that (4) −h [h, ... Theorem 1.9, and we set D = + 2D; ON FINITELY GENERATED PROFINITE GROUPS, I 189 C(q) and M (q) are the constants specified in Theorem 1.10, and we set z(q) = M (q)D(q + D) Definition Let ε > and k ∈...