330 research outputs found
Compound radiointerferometer with independent heterodynes for the investigation of emission sources radioimages
Compound radio interferometer with independent heterodynes to investigate radio emission source
ETEKOS experimental ecosystem
A description is given of an experimental ecosystem, or Etekos, which was developed at the Moscow University. The experiment lasted about one year, and the results obtained are itemized
On pairwise distances and median score of three genomes under DCJ
In comparative genomics, the rearrangement distance between two genomes
(equal the minimal number of genome rearrangements required to transform them
into a single genome) is often used for measuring their evolutionary
remoteness. Generalization of this measure to three genomes is known as the
median score (while a resulting genome is called median genome). In contrast to
the rearrangement distance between two genomes which can be computed in linear
time, computing the median score for three genomes is NP-hard. This inspires a
quest for simpler and faster approximations for the median score, the most
natural of which appears to be the halved sum of pairwise distances which in
fact represents a lower bound for the median score.
In this work, we study relationship and interplay of pairwise distances
between three genomes and their median score under the model of
Double-Cut-and-Join (DCJ) rearrangements. Most remarkably we show that while a
rearrangement may change the sum of pairwise distances by at most 2 (and thus
change the lower bound by at most 1), even the most "powerful" rearrangements
in this respect that increase the lower bound by 1 (by moving one genome
farther away from each of the other two genomes), which we call strong, do not
necessarily affect the median score. This observation implies that the two
measures are not as well-correlated as one's intuition may suggest.
We further prove that the median score attains the lower bound exactly on the
triples of genomes that can be obtained from a single genome with strong
rearrangements. While the sum of pairwise distances with the factor 2/3
represents an upper bound for the median score, its tightness remains unclear.
Nonetheless, we show that the difference of the median score and its lower
bound is not bounded by a constant.Comment: Proceedings of the 10-th Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on
Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG), 2012. (to appear
Optical Hyperlens: Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit
We propose an approach to far-field optical imaging beyond the diffraction
limit. The proposed system allows image magnification, is robust with respect
to material losses and can be fabricated by adapting existing metamaterial
technologies in a cylindrical geometry
On the reduction of observations when using a radiointerferometer with a large base
Spatial characteristics of radio interferometer antenna system for radio source observation
Results of the study of the vestibular apparatus and the functions of the perception of space in cosmonauts (pre- and post-flight observations)
The effect of the set of space flight factors caused a change in the activity of the vestibular apparatus and the spatial perception function. More significant and longer shifts were observed during expeditions of great duration. The detected disorders (increase in reactivity of the otolithic apparatus, decrease in sensitivity of the cupula receptor, deterioration in the perception accuracy, etc.) had a definite tendency to be restored. The primary damage to the otolithic reflex (changes were found in practically all the subjects) is probably caused by the specific effect of zero gravitation, and apparently, may be one of the trigger mechanisms for discrepancy in the activity of the sensory systems, disorders in the correcting function of the cerebellum, and central vestibular formations
On the number of two-dimensional threshold functions
A two-dimensional threshold function of k-valued logic can be viewed as
coloring of the points of a k x k square lattice into two colors such that
there exists a straight line separating points of different colors. For the
number of such functions only asymptotic bounds are known. We give an exact
formula for the number of two-dimensional threshold functions and derive more
accurate asymptotics.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure
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