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A Scale-Space Medialness Transform Based on Boundary Concordance Voting
The Concordance-based Medial Axis Transform (CMAT) presented in this paper is a multiscale medial axis (MMA) algorithm that computes the medial response from grey-level boundary measures. This non-linear operator responds only to symmetric structures, overcoming the limitations of linear medial operators which create “side-lobe” responses for symmetric structures and respond to edge structures. In addition, the spatial localisation of the medial axis and the identification of object width is improved in the CMAT algorithm compared with linear algorithms. The robustness of linear medial operators to noise is preserved in our algorithm. The effectiveness of the CMAT is accredited to the concordance property described in this paper. We demonstrate the performance of this method with test figures used by other authors and medical images that are relatively complex in structure. In these complex images the benefit of the improved response of our non-linear operator is clearly visible
Please Lower Small Cell Antenna Heights in 5G
In this paper, we present a new and significant theoretical discovery. If the
absolute height difference between base station (BS) antenna and user equipment
(UE) antenna is larger than zero, then the network capacity performance in
terms of the area spectral efficiency (ASE) will continuously decrease as the
BS density increases for ultra-dense (UD) small cell networks (SCNs). This
performance behavior has a tremendous impact on the deployment of UD SCNs in
the 5th-generation (5G) era. Network operators may invest large amounts of
money in deploying more network infrastructure to only obtain an even worse
network performance. Our study results reveal that it is a must to lower the
SCN BS antenna height to the UE antenna height to fully achieve the capacity
gains of UD SCNs in 5G. However, this requires a revolutionized approach of BS
architecture and deployment, which is explored in this paper too.Comment: Final version in IEEE: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7842150/.
arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1608.0669
Initiator tRNA genes template the 3\u27 CCA end at high frequencies in bacteria.
BACKGROUND: While the CCA sequence at the mature 3\u27 end of tRNAs is conserved and critical for translational function, a genetic template for this sequence is not always contained in tRNA genes. In eukaryotes and Archaea, the CCA ends of tRNAs are synthesized post-transcriptionally by CCA-adding enzymes. In Bacteria, tRNA genes template CCA sporadically.
RESULTS: In order to understand the variation in how prokaryotic tRNA genes template CCA, we re-annotated tRNA genes in tRNAdb-CE database version 0.8. Among 132,129 prokaryotic tRNA genes, initiator tRNA genes template CCA at the highest average frequency (74.1%) over all functional classes except selenocysteine and pyrrolysine tRNA genes (88.1% and 100% respectively). Across bacterial phyla and a wide range of genome sizes, many lineages exist in which predominantly initiator tRNA genes template CCA. Convergent and parallel retention of CCA templating in initiator tRNA genes evolved in independent histories of reductive genome evolution in Bacteria. Also, in a majority of cyanobacterial and actinobacterial genera, predominantly initiator tRNA genes template CCA. We also found that a surprising fraction of archaeal tRNA genes template CCA.
CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that cotranscriptional synthesis of initiator tRNA CCA 3\u27 ends can complement inefficient processing of initiator tRNA precursors, bootstrap rapid initiation of protein synthesis from a non-growing state, or contribute to an increase in cellular growth rates by reducing overheads of mass and energy to maintain nonfunctional tRNA precursor pools. More generally, CCA templating in structurally non-conforming tRNA genes can afford cells robustness and greater plasticity to respond rapidly to environmental changes and stimuli
Initiator tRNA genes template the 3' CCA end at high frequencies in bacteria.
BackgroundWhile the CCA sequence at the mature 3' end of tRNAs is conserved and critical for translational function, a genetic template for this sequence is not always contained in tRNA genes. In eukaryotes and Archaea, the CCA ends of tRNAs are synthesized post-transcriptionally by CCA-adding enzymes. In Bacteria, tRNA genes template CCA sporadically.ResultsIn order to understand the variation in how prokaryotic tRNA genes template CCA, we re-annotated tRNA genes in tRNAdb-CE database version 0.8. Among 132,129 prokaryotic tRNA genes, initiator tRNA genes template CCA at the highest average frequency (74.1%) over all functional classes except selenocysteine and pyrrolysine tRNA genes (88.1% and 100% respectively). Across bacterial phyla and a wide range of genome sizes, many lineages exist in which predominantly initiator tRNA genes template CCA. Convergent and parallel retention of CCA templating in initiator tRNA genes evolved in independent histories of reductive genome evolution in Bacteria. Also, in a majority of cyanobacterial and actinobacterial genera, predominantly initiator tRNA genes template CCA. We also found that a surprising fraction of archaeal tRNA genes template CCA.ConclusionsWe suggest that cotranscriptional synthesis of initiator tRNA CCA 3' ends can complement inefficient processing of initiator tRNA precursors, "bootstrap" rapid initiation of protein synthesis from a non-growing state, or contribute to an increase in cellular growth rates by reducing overheads of mass and energy to maintain nonfunctional tRNA precursor pools. More generally, CCA templating in structurally non-conforming tRNA genes can afford cells robustness and greater plasticity to respond rapidly to environmental changes and stimuli
Two-loop renormalization of multiflavor theory in six dimensions and the trace anomaly
We use the background-field method and the heat kernel to obtain all
counterterms to two-loop order of conformally-coupled multiflavor
theory in six spacetime dimensions, defined in curved spacetime and with
spacetime-dependent couplings. We also include spacetime-dependent mass terms
for completeness. We use these results to write a general expression for the
trace anomaly. With the use of Weyl consistency conditions we are able to show
that the strong -theorem for a certain natural candidate quantity
is violated in this theory, and obtain a three-loop expression for
the coefficient of the Euler term in the anomaly.Comment: 31 pages. v2: Equation (4.16) corrected. The discussion in sections 3
and 6 contains errors that have been addressed in arXiv:1604.0178
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