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Jia**g Cheng
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Linear Stability of a Periodic Orbit in the System of Falling Balls
We study linear stability of a periodic orbit in the hamiltonian system with many degrees of freedom introduced in [W1].
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Systems Analysis and Rice Pest Management
Rice pest problems are complex. The level of pest attack and damage, and the way in which rice farmers deal with them are determined by a range of factors, including ecological and technical features of the cr...
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A New Method to Determine Belowground Production in Forest Ecosystems
For understanding forest nutrient cycling, a reliable method to estimate belowground (root) production is needed. The methods employed so far are unsatisfactory (6) The aim this study was to utilize recent kno...
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The Visualization of the Low Frequency Acoustical Radiation Field
This paper researches the relationship between the acoustical source of low frequency and its radiation field by using Nearfield Acoustical Holography (NAH). Simulation gives the spatial distributions of the i...
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Genetic Transformation of Potato with Bacillus Thuringiensis HD 73 Cryia(C) Gene and Development of Insect Resistant Plants
Solanum tuberosum L. was transformed using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens binary vector containing DNA encoding a translational fusion between the Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki (B.t.k.) HD-7...
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Density-related Effects on the Components of Fitness and Population Dynamics of Planthoppers
The extent to which populations are “regulated” or suppressed by density-dependent factors continues to be the subject of extensive ecological debate (see Slade 1977; Strong 1984; Vickery and Nudds 1984; Hasse...
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A Systems Approach to Planthopper Population Dynamics and Its Contribution to the Definition of Pest Management Options
Changes in pest management technology and in its perception and risk have resulted in the adoption of different control approaches. As illustrated by developments in the United States, Perkins (1982) showed th...
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Autoimmunity Due to Defective NUR77, Fas, and TNF-RI Apoptosis
Several molecules and pathways known to be of importance in apoptosis have been described in the thymus; however, their contribution to clonal deletion and tolerance induction remains controversial1–4. Although k...
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Multiparameter Inversion of Elastic Wave with a Single Impulse Source
We present a single impulse source method to reconstruct two-dimensional variations in elastic materials with inhomogeneous density and elastic Lame parameters. For the case of seismic exploration, i.e., the s...
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Graph Based Histogram Intersection for Efficient Location of Color Objects
An efficient method to detect and extract color objects from a cluttered scene based on Statistical and spatial color similarity is proposed. Color region adjacency graphs (CRAG) and six 1-D histograms corresp...
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Cellular Automata Based Temporal Process Understanding of Urban Growth
Understanding of urban growth process is highly crucial in making development plan and sustainable growth management policy. As the process involves multi-actors, multi-behavior and various policies, it is end...
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Face Recognition Using Overcomplete Independent Component Analysis
Most current face recognition algorithms find a set of basis functions in a subspace by training the input data. However, in many applications, the training data is limited or only a few training data are avai...
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Fingerprint Enhancement Using Oriented Diffusion Filter
Fingerprint enhancement is a critical step in a fingerprint identific ation system. Recently, some anisotropic nonlinear diffusion filter is applied to the fingerprint preprocessed. Impressive results are main...
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Image Retrieval Based on Independent Components of Color Histograms
Color histograms are effective for representing color visual features. However, the high dimensionality of feature vectors results in high computational cost. Several transformations, including principal compo...
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Fingerprint Alignment Using Similarity Histogram
The performance of fingerprint matching algorithm relies heavily on the accuracy of fingerprint alignment. Falsely aligning two feature sets extracted from two finger images of a fingerprint will increase the ...
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Fingerprint Minutiae Matching with Orientation and Ridge
An important step in automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS) is fingerprint matching. The task of fingerprint matching is to verify whether two fingerprints are coming from same finger. In this pape...
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Improving ICA Performance for Modeling Image Appearance with the Kernel Trick
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a popular method for modeling image appearance, but it is inadequate to describe complex nonlinear variations of real images due to illumination, distortion, and other v...
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Extraction of Name and Transliteration in Monolingual and Parallel Corpora
Named-entities in free text represent a challenge to text analysis in Machine Translation and Cross Language Information Retrieval. These phrases are often transliterated into another language with a different...
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Random Independent Subspace for Face Recognition
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a popular approach for face recognition. However, face recognition is often a small sample size problem, which will weaken the recognition performance of ICA classifier....
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A Cascaded Ensemble Learning for Independent Component Analysis
In case of application to high-dimensional pattern recognition task, Independent Component Analysis (ICA) often suffers from two challenging problems. One is the small sample size problem. The other is the cho...
