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The arithmetic mean, i.e. the mathematical average of a set of numerical values, calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the number of values. median median absolute deviation mode moving average Also moving mean and rolling mean. A series of mathematical averages or means of different subsets of a larger data ...
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multimodal distribution multivariate analysis multivariate kernel density estimation multivariate random variable A vector whose components are random variables on the same probability space. mutual exclusivity mutual independence A collection of events is said to be mutually independent if for any subset of the collec...
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M-estimators do not necessarily relate to a density function and so are not fully parametric. Fully parametric approaches to robust modeling and inference, both Bayesian and likelihood approaches, usually deal with heavy-tailed distributions such as Student's t-distribution. For the t-distribution with ν {\displaystyle...
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For ν = 1 {\displaystyle \nu =1} , the t-distribution is equivalent to the Cauchy distribution. The degrees of freedom is sometimes known as the kurtosis parameter. It is the parameter that controls how heavy the tails are.
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In principle, ν {\displaystyle \nu } can be estimated from the data in the same way as any other parameter. In practice, it is common for there to be multiple local maxima when ν {\displaystyle \nu } is allowed to vary. As such, it is common to fix ν {\displaystyle \nu } at a value around 4 or 6. The figure below displ...
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M-theory is based on a quantitative theory of the ventral stream of visual cortex. Understanding how visual cortex works in object recognition is still a challenging task for neuroscience. Humans and primates are able to memorize and recognize objects after seeing just couple of examples unlike any state-of-the art mac...
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No real attention has been given to biologically plausible features of higher complexity. While mainstream computer vision has always been inspired and challenged by human vision, it seems to have never advanced past the very first stages of processing in the simple cells in V1 and V2. Although some of the systems insp...
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This allows recognition from very few labeled examples – in the limit, just one. Neuroscience suggests that natural functionals for a neuron to compute is a high-dimensional dot product between an "image patch" and another image patch (called template) which is stored in terms of synaptic weights (synapses per neuron).
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The standard computational model of a neuron is based on a dot product and a threshold. Another important feature of the visual cortex is that it consists of simple and complex cells.
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This idea was originally proposed by Hubel and Wiesel. M-theory employs this idea. Simple cells compute dot products of an image and transformations of templates ⟨ I , g i t k ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle I,g_{i}t^{k}\rangle } for i = 1 , … , | G | {\displaystyle i=1,\ldots ,|G|} ( | G | {\displaystyle |G|} is a number of ...
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M-type carbonate platforms are characterized by an inner platform, an outer platform, an upper slope made by microbial boundstone, and a lower slope often made by breccia. The slope may be steeper than the angle of repose of gravels, with an inclination that may attain 50°. In the M-type carbonate platforms the carbona...
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M. Avodah Zarah lists Saturnalia as a "festival of the gentiles," along with the Kalents of January and Kratesis. B. Avodah Zarah records that Ḥanan b. Rava said, "Kalends begins eight days after the solstice and Saturnura begins eight days before the solstice". Ḥananel b. Ḥushiel, followed by Rashi, claims: "Eight d...
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This is the death to which Heaven has sentenced me!" He decided to spend eight days in fasting and prayer. When he saw the winter solstice, and he saw that the day was continuously lengthening, he said, "It is the order of the world!"
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He went and feasted for eight days. The following year, he feasted for both. He established them in Heaven's name, but they established them in the name of idolatry.In the Babylonian Avodah Zarah, this etiology is attributed to the tannaim, but the story is suspiciously similar to the etiology of Kalends attributed by ...
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M. C. Escher's famous prints Circle Limit III and Circle Limit IV illustrate the conformal disc model (Poincaré disk model) quite well. The white lines in III are not quite geodesics (they are hypercycles), but are close to them. It is also possible to see quite plainly the negative curvature of the hyperbolic plane, t...
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In the Euclidean plane, their angles would sum to 450°; i.e., a circle and a quarter. From this, we see that the sum of angles of a triangle in the hyperbolic plane must be smaller than 180°. Another visible property is exponential growth. In Circle Limit III, for example, one can see that the number of fishes within a...
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M. D. Merrill's component display theory (CDT) is a cognitive matrix that focuses on the interaction between two dimensions: the level of performance expected from the learner and the types of content of the material to be learned. Merrill classifies a learner's level of performance as: find, use, remember, and materia...
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Secondary presentation forms include: prerequisites, objectives, helps, mnemonics, and feedback. A complete lesson includes a combination of primary and secondary presentation forms, but the most effective combination varies from learner to learner and also from concept to concept. Another significant aspect of the CDT...
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M. Dorigo, 1992. Optimization, Learning and Natural Algorithms, PhD thesis, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. M. Dorigo, V. Maniezzo & A. Colorni, 1996. "Ant System: Optimization by a Colony of Cooperating Agents", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics–Part B, 26 (1): 29–41.
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M. Dorigo & L. M. Gambardella, 1997. "Ant Colony System: A Cooperative Learning Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 1 (1): 53–66.
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M. Dorigo, G. Di Caro & L. M. Gambardella, 1999. "Ant Algorithms for Discrete Optimization". Artificial Life, 5 (2): 137–172.
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E. Bonabeau, M. Dorigo et G. Theraulaz, 1999. Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513159-2 M. Dorigo & T. Stützle, 2004.
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Ant Colony Optimization, MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-04219-3 M. Dorigo, 2007. "Ant Colony Optimization".
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Scholarpedia. C. Blum, 2005 "Ant colony optimization: Introduction and recent trends". Physics of Life Reviews, 2: 353-373 M. Dorigo, M. Birattari & T. Stützle, 2006 Ant Colony Optimization: Artificial Ants as a Computational Intelligence Technique.
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TR/IRIDIA/2006-023 Mohd Murtadha Mohamad,"Articulated Robots Motion Planning Using Foraging Ant Strategy",Journal of Information Technology - Special Issues in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.20, No. 4 pp. 163–181, December 2008, ISSN 0128-3790. N. Monmarché, F. Guinand & P. Siarry (eds), "Artificial Ants", August 2010 Ha...
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ISBN 978-1-84821-194-0. A. Kazharov, V. Kureichik, 2010. "Ant colony optimization algorithms for solving transportation problems", Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International, Vol.
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30–43. C-M. Pintea, 2014, Advances in Bio-inspired Computing for Combinatorial Optimization Problem, Springer ISBN 978-3-642-40178-7 K. Saleem, N. Fisal, M. A. Baharudin, A. A. Ahmed, S. Hafizah and S. Kamilah, "Ant colony inspired self-optimized routing protocol based on cross layer architecture for wireless sensor ne...
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Commun., vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 669–678, 2010.
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ISBN 978-960-474-200-4 K. Saleem and N. Fisal, "Enhanced Ant Colony algorithm for self-optimized data assured routing in wireless sensor networks", Networks (ICON) 2012 18th IEEE International Conference on, pp. 422–427. ISBN 978-1-4673-4523-1 Abolmaali S, Roodposhti FR.
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Portfolio Optimization Using Ant Colony Method a Case Study on Tehran Stock Exchange. Journal of Accounting. 2018 Mar;8(1).
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M. G. Kuzyk's January 2007 paper M. G. Kuzyk, "Fundamental limits on third-order molecular susceptibilities," Optics Letters 25, 1183 (2000). M. G. Kuzyk, "Physical Limits on Electronic Nonlinear Molecular Susceptibilities," Physical Review Letters 85, 1218 (2000). M. G. Kuzyk, "Quantum Limits of the Hyper-Rayleigh Sca...
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M. G. Kuzyk "Fundamental limits on two-photon absorption cross-sections," Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 8327 (2003). M. G. Kuzyk, "Fundamental Limits of Nonlinear Susceptibilities," Optics and Photonic News, December, page 26 (2003). (Special issue "Optics in 2003") summarizes 29 of "the most exciting research to em...
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Kakoli Tripathy, Javier Perez Moreno, Mark G. Kuzyk, Benjamin J. Coe, Koen Clays, and Anne Myers Kelley, "Why Hyperpolarizabilities Fall Short of the Fundamental Quantum Limits," J. Chem. Phys. 121, 7932 (2004). Washington State University news service article Whoosh! Goes the Internet: International Research Team Blaz...
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M. R. Brown and B. Hiley showed that, as alternative to its formulation terms of configuration space ( x {\displaystyle x} -space), the quantum potential can also be formulated in terms of momentum space ( p {\displaystyle p} -space).In line with David Bohm's approach, Basil Hiley and mathematician Maurice de Gosson sh...
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M. clinopodia typically grows in moist woods, thickets, ravines, and stream-banks and may also appear along roadsides. == References ==
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M. minutum is used as a traditional medicine in Fiji, and in Malaysia it is used to treat fever and ringworm. M. integerrimum has been used in China to treat dysentery and arthritis.The chemistry of these plants has been studied, with several known and new coumarins isolated. One such coumarin from M. integerrimum, mic...
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M. muralis cells are rod-shaped, with a width of 0.7 µm and a length of 1.7–2.0 µm. Each cell has a flagellum at one of its poles.This species is methylotrophic, meaning it can utilize carbon from one-carbon molecules like methanol and methylamine, although it also obtains carbon from trimethylamine, and fructose. It i...
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Reproduction is done via binary fission; it does not make spores.Its main fatty acids are palmitic acid, palmitoleic acid, and octadecanoic acid. The main phospholipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, and cardiolipin. Ectoine, glutamate, and, to a lesser extent, sucrose act as osmoprotectants.
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M. pneumoniae can cause infections in humans, animals, plants, and cell cultures. It is a parasitic bacterium that invades the mucosal membranes of the upper and lower respiratory tract, including nasopharynx, throat, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli. In order to survive, M. pneumoniae needs essential nutrien...
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It may cause injury to the respiratory epithelial cell after its attachment. The injury of host epithelial cells caused by M. pneumoniae adhesion is thought to be due to the production of highly reactive species: hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and superoxide radicals (O2–). M. pneumoniae has the potential for intracellular l...
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The intracellular existence of M. pneumoniae could facilitate the establishment of latent or chronic states, circumvent mycoplasmacidal immune mechanisms, its ability to cross mucosal barriers and gain access to internal tissues. Besides, fusion of the mycoplasmal cell membrane with that of the host not only results in...
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In fact, M. pneumonia can be cultured from respiratory secretions even after the pneumonia patients are treated with effective antibiotics. Thus, M. pneumonia infection is chronic and persistent. Besides, Nisar et al. (2007) also adds that M. pneumonia infection causes pulmonary structural abnormalities, resulting in a...
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M. tuberculosis can be grown in the laboratory. Compared to other commonly studied bacteria, M. tuberculosis has a remarkably slow growth rate, doubling roughly once per day. Commonly used media include liquids such as Middlebrook 7H9 or 7H12, egg-based solid media such as Lowenstein-Jensen, and solid agar-based such a...
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M.Bauer, “The computational complexity of propositional cirquent calculus”. Logical Methods in Computer Science 11 (2015), Issue 1, Paper 12, pp. 1–16. G.Japaridze, “Introduction to cirquent calculus and abstract resource semantics”.
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Journal of Logic and Computation 16 (2006), pp. 489–532. G.Japaridze, “Cirquent calculus deepened.” Journal of Logic and Computation 18 (2008), pp.
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983–1028. G.Japaridze, “From formulas to cirquents in computability logic”. Logical Methods in Computer Science 7 (2011), Issue 2, Paper 1, pp.
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1–55. G.Japaridze, “The taming of recurrences in computability logic through cirquent calculus, Part I”.Archive for Mathematical Logic 52 (2013), pages 173–212. G.Japaridze, “The taming of recurrences in computability logic through cirquent calculus, Part II” Archive for Mathematical Logic 52 (2013), pages 213–259.
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I. Mezhirov and N. Vereshchagin, On abstract resource semantics and computability logic. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 76 (2010), pp. 356–372.
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W.Xu and S.Liu, “Soundness and completeness of the cirquent calculus system CL6 for computability logic”. Logic Journal of the IGPL 20 (2012), pp. 317–330.
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W.Xu and S.Liu, “Cirquent calculus system CL8S versus calculus of structures system SKSg for propositional logic”. In: Quantitative Logic and Soft Computing. Guojun Wang, Bin Zhao and Yongming Li, eds.
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Singapore, World Scientific, 2012, pp. 144–149. W.Xu, “A propositional system induced by Japaridze's approach to IF logic”.
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Logic Journal of the IGPL 22 (2014), pages 982–991. W. Xu, A cirquent calculus system with clustering and ranking. Journal of Applied Logic 16 (2016), pp. 37–49.
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M1 Grizzly Combat Mobility Vehicle (CMV) Grizzly Breacher M1 Panther II Remote Controlled Mine Clearing Vehicle Panther M104 Wolverine Heavy Assault Bridge Wolverine (Heavy Assault Bridge) M1074 Joint Assault Bridge System M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle
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M1 protein M2 proton channel MHC class I Magnesium transporter Magnetoception Magnetosome Magnetospirillum Magnetotactic bacteria Magnetotaxis Manfred Eigen Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco Marche a petit pas Mario Ageno Martin Gruebele Maurice Wilkins Max Delbrück Max Perutz Mechanics of human sexuality Mechanome Mechanosensi...
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M13 phage - m7G(5')pppN diphosphatase - malformation - maltose-transporting ATPase - manganese-transporting ATPase - mannose-6-phosphate 6-reductase - mapping - marker - melanoma - melting - menaquinol oxidase (H+-transporting) - Johann Mendel - Mendelian inheritance - message - messenger RNA - metaphase - methylphenyl...
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M1: This was used by seacoast artillery for major-caliber seacoast guns. It computed continuous firing data for a battery of two guns that were separated by not more than 1,000 feet (300 m). It utilised the same type of input data furnished by a range section with the then-current (1940) types of position-finding and f...
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The computations were made continuously, so that the gun was at all times correctly pointed and the fuze correctly timed for firing at any instant. The computer was mounted in the M13 or M14 director trailer.
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M4: This was identical to the M3 except for some mechanisms and parts which were altered to allow for different ammunition being used. M8: This was an electronic computer (using vacuum tube technology) built by Bell Labs and used by coast artillery with medium-caliber guns (up to 8 inches or 200 millimetres). It made t...
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M9: This was identical to the M8 except for some mechanisms and parts which were altered to accommodate anti-aircraft ammunition and guns. M10: A ballistics computer, part of the M38 fire control system, for Skysweeper anti-aircraft guns. M13: A ballistics computer for M48 tanks.
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M14: A ballistics computer for M103 heavy tanks. M15: A part of the M35 field artillery fire-control system, which included the M1 gunnery officer console and M27 power supply. M16: A ballistics computer for M60A1 tanks.
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M18: FADAC (Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer), an all-transistorized general-purpose digital computer manufactured by Amelco (Teledyne Systems, Inc.,) and North American—Autonetics. FADAC was first fielded during 1960, and was the first semiconductor-based digital electronics field-artillery computer. M19: A ...
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M21: A ballistics computer for M60A3 tanks. M23: A mortar ballistics computer. M26: A fire-control computer for AH-1 Cobra helicopters, (AH-1F).
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M31: A mortar ballistics computer. M32: A mortar ballistics computer, (handheld). M1: A ballistics computer for M1 Abrams main battle tanks.
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M60A1 AVLB - Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge, 60-foot (18 m) scissors bridge on M60A1 chassis. M60 AVLM - Armored Vehicle Launched MICLIC (Mine-Clearing Line Charge), modified M60 AVLB with up to 2 MICLIC mounted over the rear of the vehicle. M60 Panther - M60 modified into a remotely controlled mine clearing tank. The...
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M728 CEV - M60A1-based Combat Engineer Vehicle fitted with a folding A-frame crane and winch attached to the front of the turret, and an M135 165mm demolition gun. Commonly fitted with the D7 bulldozer blade, or a mine-clearing equipment. M728A1 - Upgraded version of the M728 CEV.
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MAC SDUS or MSDUS are data units transmitted between other Media access controllers on a lower OSI Layer. The PDU counterpart MAC PDU that does the same thing but on the same OSI Layer. When there are larger MAC PDU's as MAC SDU's in the system, the MAC PDU includes more MAC SDU's, because of packet aggregation. If the...
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MAC may refer to the sublayer that determines who is allowed to access the media at any one time (e.g. CSMA/CD). Other times it refers to a frame structure delivered based on MAC addresses inside. There are generally two forms of media access control: distributed and centralized. Both of these may be compared to commun...
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In a network made up of people speaking, i.e. a conversation, they will each pause a random amount of time and then attempt to speak again, effectively establishing a long and elaborate game of saying "no, you first". The Media Access Control sublayer also performs frame synchronization, which determines the start and ...
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The time-based approach expects a specified amount of time between frames. Character counting tracks the count of remaining characters in the frame header.
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This method, however, is easily disturbed if this field is corrupted. Byte stuffing precedes the frame with a special byte sequence such as DLE STX and succeeds it with DLE ETX. Appearances of DLE (byte value 0x10) have to be escaped with another DLE.
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The start and stop marks are detected at the receiver and removed as well as the inserted DLE characters. Similarly, bit stuffing replaces these start and end marks with flags consisting of a special bit pattern (e.g. a 0, six 1 bits and a 0). Occurrences of this bit pattern in the data to be transmitted are avoided by...
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To use the example where the flag is 01111110, a 0 is inserted after 5 consecutive 1's in the data stream. The flags and the inserted 0's are removed at the receiving end. This makes for arbitrary long frames and easy synchronization for the recipient. The stuffed bit is added even if the following data bit is 0, which...
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MACE (Multi Atomic Cluster Expansion) is a highly accurate machine learning force field architecture that combines the rigorous many-body expansion of the total potential energy with rotationally equivariant representations of the system. ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) is a transferable neural network potential, ...
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Δ-ML not a force field method but a model that adds learnt correctional energy terms to approximate and relatively computationally cheap quantum chemical methods in order to provide an accuracy level of a higher order, more computationally expensive quantum chemical model. SchNet a Neural network utilising continuous-f...
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MADCAP — Microwave Anisotropy Data Computational Analysis Package developed by Borrill et al. SIToolBox — SI Toolbox is a package for estimating the isotropy violation in the CMB sky. It is developed by Das et al. and it consists of several Fortran subroutines and stand-alone facilities, that can be used to estimate th...
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The package is used by cosmological boltzmann codes (CMBFast, CAMB etc.) TOAST — Time Ordered Astrophysics Scalable Tools, developed and designed by Theodore Kisner, Reijo Keskitalo, Jullian Borrill et al. It "generalizing the problem of CMB map-making to the reduction of any pointed time-domain data, and ensuring that...
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MALBAC primers have variable components which allow them to randomly bind to the template DNA. This means that on a single fragment at any cycle, there could be multiple primers annealed to the fragment. A DNA polymerase such as one derived from Bacillus stearothermophilus (Bst polymerase) is able to displace the 5’ en...
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MALDI-TOF (Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization - time of flight) is a specific type of mass spectrometry that is able to identify microorganisms. A pure culture is isolated and spread directly on a stainless steel or disposable target. The cells are lysed and overlaid with a matrix, which forms protein complexe...
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The MALDI fires a laser and ionizes the protein complexes, which break off and travel up the vacuum where they are detected based on mass and charge. The resulting protein spectra is compared to a known database of previously catalogued organisms, resulting in rapid diagnosis of microorganisms. Recent studies have sugg...
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MALDI-TOF spectra are often used for the identification of microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi. A portion of a colony of the microbe in question is placed onto the sample target and overlaid with matrix. The mass spectra of expressed proteins generated are analyzed by dedicated software and compared with stored pr...
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Benefits of high resolution MALDI-MS performed on a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (also known as FT-MS) have been demonstrated for typing and subtyping viruses though single ion detection known as proteotyping, with a particular focus on influenza viruses.One main advantage over other micr...
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For example, it has been demonstrated that MALDI-TOF can be used to detect bacteria directly from blood cultures.Another advantage is the potential to predict antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria. A single mass spectral peak can predict methicillin resistance of Staphylococcus aureus. MALDI can also detect carbapenema...
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MANETS can be used for facilitating the collection of sensor data for data mining for a variety of applications such as air pollution monitoring and different types of architectures can be used for such applications. A key characteristic of such applications is that nearby sensor nodes monitoring an environmental featu...
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MAO-A levels in the brain as measured using positron emission tomography are elevated by an average of 34% in patients with major depressive disorder. Genetic association studies examining the relationship between high-activity MAOA variants and depression have produced mixed results, with some studies linking the high...
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MAX-SAT (the version of SAT in which the number of satisfied clauses is maximized) solvers can also be solved using probabilistic algorithms. If we are given a Boolean expression B {\displaystyle B} , with V = { v 0 , … , v n } {\displaystyle V=\{v_{0},\ldots ,v_{n}\}} variables and we set each variable randomly, then ...
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Now we show that randomly assigning variable values is a 1 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}} -approximation algorithm, which means that is an optimal approximation algorithm unless P = NP. Suppose we are given a Boolean expression B = { c i } i = 1 n {\displaystyle B=\{c_{i}\}_{i=1}^{n}} and δ i j = { 0 if c i is satisf...
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Other Stochastic SAT solvers, such as WalkSAT and GSAT are an improvement to the above procedure. They start by randomly assigning values to each variable and then traverse the given Boolean expression to identify which variables to flip to minimize the number of unsatisfied clauses. They may randomly select a variable...
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MAX-SAT can also be expressed using an integer linear program (ILP). Fix a conjunctive normal form formula F with variables x1, x2, ..., xn, and let C denote the clauses of F. For each clause c in C, let S+c and S−c denote the sets of variables which are not negated in c, and those that are negated in c, respectively. ...
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MAXENT Artificial neural networks (ANN) Genetic Algorithm for Rule Set Production (GARP) Boosted regression trees (BRT)/gradient boosting machines (GBM) Random forest (RF) Support vector machines (SVM) XGBoost (XGB)Furthermore, ensemble models can be created from several model outputs to create a model that captures co...
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MBT is also sometimes termed biological mechanical treatment (BMT), however this simply refers to the order of processing (i.e., the biological phase of the system precedes the mechanical sorting). MBT should not be confused with mechanical heat treatment (MHT).
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MBT systems can form an integral part of a region's waste treatment infrastructure. These systems are typically integrated with kerbside collection schemes. In the event that a refuse-derived fuel is produced as a by-product then a combustion facility would be required.
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This could either be an incineration facility or a gasifier. Alternatively MBT solutions can diminish the need for home separation and kerbside collection of recyclable elements of waste. This gives the ability of local authorities, municipalities and councils to reduce the use of waste vehicles on the roads and keep r...
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MCMC can be used to draw samples from the posterior distribution of a statistical model. The acceptance probability is given by: P a c c ( θ i → θ ∗ ) = min ( 1 , L ( y | θ ∗ ) P ( θ ∗ ) L ( y | θ i ) P ( θ i ) Q ( θ i | θ ∗ ) Q ( θ ∗ | θ i ) ) , {\displaystyle P_{acc}(\theta _{i}\to \theta ^{*})=\min \left(1,{\frac {{...
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MD Data, a format for storing computer data, was announced by Sony in 1993 but never gained significant ground. Its media were incompatible with standard audio MiniDiscs, which has been cited as one of the main reasons behind the format's failure. MD Data can not write to audio MDs, but only the considerably more expen...
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MD5 processes a variable-length message into a fixed-length output of 128 bits. The input message is broken up into chunks of 512-bit blocks (sixteen 32-bit words); the message is padded so that its length is divisible by 512. The padding works as follows: first, a single bit, 1, is appended to the end of the message. ...
Wikipedia - MD5
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The remaining bits are filled up with 64 bits representing the length of the original message, modulo 264. The main MD5 algorithm operates on a 128-bit state, divided into four 32-bit words, denoted A, B, C, and D. These are initialized to certain fixed constants. The main algorithm then uses each 512-bit message block...
Wikipedia - MD5
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The processing of a message block consists of four similar stages, termed rounds; each round is composed of 16 similar operations based on a non-linear function F, modular addition, and left rotation. Figure 1 illustrates one operation within a round. There are four possible functions; a different one is used in each r...
Wikipedia - MD5
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MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function, MD4, and was specified in 1992 as RFC 1321. Collisions against MD5 can be calculated within seconds which makes the algorithm unsuitable for most use cases where a cryptographic hash is required. MD5 produces a digest of 128 bits (16 bytes).
Wikipedia - Message digest
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