A study of toad infestation was carried out from July to December 2022, in the vicinity of the Mfilou and Ngamboulou Rivers, with the aim of determining the prevalence rate of parasitic carriage in these toads. After ...A study of toad infestation was carried out from July to December 2022, in the vicinity of the Mfilou and Ngamboulou Rivers, with the aim of determining the prevalence rate of parasitic carriage in these toads. After collecting 289 specimens, all belonging to the Anuran order and Bufonidae family, three species were identified: Sclerophrys camerunensis (Parker, 1936), Sclerophrys regularis (Reuss, 1834) and Sclerophrys sp. The most abundant species were Sclerophrys camerunensis, followed by Sclerophrys regularis. With regard to parasitological aspects, of the 289 specimens collected, 195 were parasitized, i.e. a percentage of 67.47%. The only parasitic species identified was Ascaris sp., which is preferentially located in the intestine.展开更多
Change point detection becomes increasingly important because it can support data analysis by providing labels to the data in an unsupervised manner.In the context of process data analytics,change points in the time s...Change point detection becomes increasingly important because it can support data analysis by providing labels to the data in an unsupervised manner.In the context of process data analytics,change points in the time series of process variables may have an important indication about the process operation.For example,in a batch process,the change points can correspond to the operations and phases defined by the batch recipe.Hence identifying change points can assist labelling the time series data.Various unsupervised algorithms have been developed for change point detection,including the optimisation approachwhich minimises a cost functionwith certain penalties to search for the change points.The Bayesian approach is another,which uses Bayesian statistics to calculate the posterior probability of a specific sample being a change point.The paper investigates how the two approaches for change point detection can be applied to process data analytics.In addition,a new type of cost function using Tikhonov regularisation is proposed for the optimisation approach to reduce irrelevant change points caused by randomness in the data.The novelty lies in using regularisation-based cost functions to handle ill-posed problems of noisy data.The results demonstrate that change point detection is useful for process data analytics because change points can produce data segments corresponding to different operating modes or varying conditions,which will be useful for other machine learning tasks.展开更多
The present study was carried out to investigate the histological and histochemical changes in the liver and skin on different developmental stages of Egyptian toad Bufo regularis to be used as a histological key for ...The present study was carried out to investigate the histological and histochemical changes in the liver and skin on different developmental stages of Egyptian toad Bufo regularis to be used as a histological key for such species. Our experiment started when tadpoles began to feed. The adapted embryos are divided into 3 large tanks of 200 embryos each, collections of samples started from feeding age every three days. Both histological and histochemical results showed that the general architecture of the different organs was correlated with the state of development, i.e. larval, met-amorphic and post-metamorphic. They, therefore, displayed different characteristic features de-pending on the investigated developmental stage starting from the larval stage (stage 44) and ending with the post-metamorphic stage 66.展开更多
The present study aimed to investigate changes in the protein contents using SDS-PAGE, also using the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR) assay to identify changes in DNA concentration in the embryos of Egypti...The present study aimed to investigate changes in the protein contents using SDS-PAGE, also using the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR) assay to identify changes in DNA concentration in the embryos of Egyptian toad Bufo regularis. Our experiment started when tadpoles began to feed. The adapted embryos were divided into 3 large tanks of 200 embryos each, collections of samples started from feeding age every three days. Cluster method was used to indicate the distinct distance between the band patterns of different stages. An increase occurred in the concentration of protein fractions in these tadpoles upon metamorphosis and that when metamorphosis was completed. DNA concentration exhibited an evident low values at the premetamorphic stage 44 (105.85 ± 0.519 ng/μl) compared with the other more advanced developmental stages 55 and 56 (204.056 ± 0.651 ng/μl and 234.55 ± 2.325 ng/μl respectively). In conclusion, acquire information about the changes in the molecular content of Bufo regularis during metamorphosis has been estimated.展开更多
Southwest Ghana is a major gold producing region. The current high gold price has attracted hundreds of unemployed youth to undertake small-scale mining (SSM). Most of these miners operate illegally even though the SS...Southwest Ghana is a major gold producing region. The current high gold price has attracted hundreds of unemployed youth to undertake small-scale mining (SSM). Most of these miners operate illegally even though the SSM law (PNDCL) 218 of 1989 and Act 703 of 2006 define the procedures required for their operation. Some miners have brought their activities to a segment of the western highway that links southwest to central Ghana with serious environmental consequences envisaged. This paper argues that the laws that regulate SSM do not consider the fundamental set-up and concerns of the small-scale miner, hence its inability to be effective. It is therefore proposed that the present requirement that a minimum of 21 hectares is necessary before land can be registered needs re-examination. Secondly, government needs to explore parcels of land and designate the workable areas to miners under a well structured scheme that will also educate these miners about safe and healthy mining methods.展开更多
Letπbe a genuine cuspidal representation of the metaplectic group of rank n.We consider the theta lifts to the orthogonal group associated to a quadratic space of dimension 2n+1.We show a case of regularised Rallis i...Letπbe a genuine cuspidal representation of the metaplectic group of rank n.We consider the theta lifts to the orthogonal group associated to a quadratic space of dimension 2n+1.We show a case of regularised Rallis inner product formula that relates the pairing of theta lifts to the central value of the Langlands L-function ofπtwisted by a character.The bulk of this paper focuses on proving a case of regularised Siegel-Weil formula,on which the Rallis inner product formula is based and whose proof is missing in the literature.展开更多
In this paper,l1 regularisation-based robust fault detection technique for PWARX(PieceWise affine Auto Regressive eXogenous)systems is discussed.The problem is formulated in convex optimisation form using l1 regularis...In this paper,l1 regularisation-based robust fault detection technique for PWARX(PieceWise affine Auto Regressive eXogenous)systems is discussed.The problem is formulated in convex optimisation form using l1 regularisation hence,global solution can be found.The regularisation constant plays a key role for finding the number of submodels.The MSE(mean square error)value between actual system and its model under no fault is used as a threshold for tracking dynamics change and detecting fault.The simplicity of turning only one parameter(regularisation constant)outstands this approach from others.The proposed algorithm also shows the capability of separating the dynamics change from additive fault under noise.One illustration concludes this proposal by demonstrating its effectiveness.展开更多
We consider a finite horizon,zero-sum linear quadratic differential game.The feature of this game is that a weight matrix of the minimiser’s control cost in the cost functional is singular.Due to this singularity,the...We consider a finite horizon,zero-sum linear quadratic differential game.The feature of this game is that a weight matrix of the minimiser’s control cost in the cost functional is singular.Due to this singularity,the game can be solved neither by applying the Isaacs MinMax principle nor using the Bellman–Isaacs equation approach,i.e.this game is singular.Aprevious paper of one of the authors analysed such a game in the case where the cost functional does not contain the minimiser’s control cost at all,i.e.the weight matrix of this cost equals zero.In this case,all coordinates of the minimiser’s control are singular.In the present paper,we study the general case where the weight matrix of the minimiser’s control cost,being singular,is not,in general,zero.This means that only a part of the coordinates of the minimiser’s control is singular,while others are regular.The considered game is treated by a regularisation,i.e.by its approximate conversion to an auxiliary regular game.The latter has the same equation of dynamics and a similar cost functional augmented by an integral of the squares of the singular control coordinates with a small positive weight.Thus,the auxiliary game is a partial cheap control differential game.Based on a singular perturbation’s asymptotic analysis of this auxiliary game,the existence of the value of the original(singular)game is established,and its expression is obtained.The maximiser’s optimal state feedback strategy and the minimising control sequence in the original game are designed.It is shown that the coordinates of the minimising control sequence,corresponding to the regular coordinates of the minimiser’s control,are point-wise convergent in the class of regular functions.The optimal trajectory sequence and the optimal trajectory in the considered singular game also are obtained.An illustrative example is presented.展开更多
文摘A study of toad infestation was carried out from July to December 2022, in the vicinity of the Mfilou and Ngamboulou Rivers, with the aim of determining the prevalence rate of parasitic carriage in these toads. After collecting 289 specimens, all belonging to the Anuran order and Bufonidae family, three species were identified: Sclerophrys camerunensis (Parker, 1936), Sclerophrys regularis (Reuss, 1834) and Sclerophrys sp. The most abundant species were Sclerophrys camerunensis, followed by Sclerophrys regularis. With regard to parasitological aspects, of the 289 specimens collected, 195 were parasitized, i.e. a percentage of 67.47%. The only parasitic species identified was Ascaris sp., which is preferentially located in the intestine.
基金support by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany(BMWK)within the Innovation Platform“KEEN-Artificial Intelligence Incubator Laboratory in the Process Industry”(Grant No.01MK20014T)The research of L.B.is supported by the Swedish Research Council Grant VR 2018-03661。
文摘Change point detection becomes increasingly important because it can support data analysis by providing labels to the data in an unsupervised manner.In the context of process data analytics,change points in the time series of process variables may have an important indication about the process operation.For example,in a batch process,the change points can correspond to the operations and phases defined by the batch recipe.Hence identifying change points can assist labelling the time series data.Various unsupervised algorithms have been developed for change point detection,including the optimisation approachwhich minimises a cost functionwith certain penalties to search for the change points.The Bayesian approach is another,which uses Bayesian statistics to calculate the posterior probability of a specific sample being a change point.The paper investigates how the two approaches for change point detection can be applied to process data analytics.In addition,a new type of cost function using Tikhonov regularisation is proposed for the optimisation approach to reduce irrelevant change points caused by randomness in the data.The novelty lies in using regularisation-based cost functions to handle ill-posed problems of noisy data.The results demonstrate that change point detection is useful for process data analytics because change points can produce data segments corresponding to different operating modes or varying conditions,which will be useful for other machine learning tasks.
文摘The present study was carried out to investigate the histological and histochemical changes in the liver and skin on different developmental stages of Egyptian toad Bufo regularis to be used as a histological key for such species. Our experiment started when tadpoles began to feed. The adapted embryos are divided into 3 large tanks of 200 embryos each, collections of samples started from feeding age every three days. Both histological and histochemical results showed that the general architecture of the different organs was correlated with the state of development, i.e. larval, met-amorphic and post-metamorphic. They, therefore, displayed different characteristic features de-pending on the investigated developmental stage starting from the larval stage (stage 44) and ending with the post-metamorphic stage 66.
文摘The present study aimed to investigate changes in the protein contents using SDS-PAGE, also using the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR) assay to identify changes in DNA concentration in the embryos of Egyptian toad Bufo regularis. Our experiment started when tadpoles began to feed. The adapted embryos were divided into 3 large tanks of 200 embryos each, collections of samples started from feeding age every three days. Cluster method was used to indicate the distinct distance between the band patterns of different stages. An increase occurred in the concentration of protein fractions in these tadpoles upon metamorphosis and that when metamorphosis was completed. DNA concentration exhibited an evident low values at the premetamorphic stage 44 (105.85 ± 0.519 ng/μl) compared with the other more advanced developmental stages 55 and 56 (204.056 ± 0.651 ng/μl and 234.55 ± 2.325 ng/μl respectively). In conclusion, acquire information about the changes in the molecular content of Bufo regularis during metamorphosis has been estimated.
文摘Southwest Ghana is a major gold producing region. The current high gold price has attracted hundreds of unemployed youth to undertake small-scale mining (SSM). Most of these miners operate illegally even though the SSM law (PNDCL) 218 of 1989 and Act 703 of 2006 define the procedures required for their operation. Some miners have brought their activities to a segment of the western highway that links southwest to central Ghana with serious environmental consequences envisaged. This paper argues that the laws that regulate SSM do not consider the fundamental set-up and concerns of the small-scale miner, hence its inability to be effective. It is therefore proposed that the present requirement that a minimum of 21 hectares is necessary before land can be registered needs re-examination. Secondly, government needs to explore parcels of land and designate the workable areas to miners under a well structured scheme that will also educate these miners about safe and healthy mining methods.
文摘Letπbe a genuine cuspidal representation of the metaplectic group of rank n.We consider the theta lifts to the orthogonal group associated to a quadratic space of dimension 2n+1.We show a case of regularised Rallis inner product formula that relates the pairing of theta lifts to the central value of the Langlands L-function ofπtwisted by a character.The bulk of this paper focuses on proving a case of regularised Siegel-Weil formula,on which the Rallis inner product formula is based and whose proof is missing in the literature.
文摘In this paper,l1 regularisation-based robust fault detection technique for PWARX(PieceWise affine Auto Regressive eXogenous)systems is discussed.The problem is formulated in convex optimisation form using l1 regularisation hence,global solution can be found.The regularisation constant plays a key role for finding the number of submodels.The MSE(mean square error)value between actual system and its model under no fault is used as a threshold for tracking dynamics change and detecting fault.The simplicity of turning only one parameter(regularisation constant)outstands this approach from others.The proposed algorithm also shows the capability of separating the dynamics change from additive fault under noise.One illustration concludes this proposal by demonstrating its effectiveness.
文摘We consider a finite horizon,zero-sum linear quadratic differential game.The feature of this game is that a weight matrix of the minimiser’s control cost in the cost functional is singular.Due to this singularity,the game can be solved neither by applying the Isaacs MinMax principle nor using the Bellman–Isaacs equation approach,i.e.this game is singular.Aprevious paper of one of the authors analysed such a game in the case where the cost functional does not contain the minimiser’s control cost at all,i.e.the weight matrix of this cost equals zero.In this case,all coordinates of the minimiser’s control are singular.In the present paper,we study the general case where the weight matrix of the minimiser’s control cost,being singular,is not,in general,zero.This means that only a part of the coordinates of the minimiser’s control is singular,while others are regular.The considered game is treated by a regularisation,i.e.by its approximate conversion to an auxiliary regular game.The latter has the same equation of dynamics and a similar cost functional augmented by an integral of the squares of the singular control coordinates with a small positive weight.Thus,the auxiliary game is a partial cheap control differential game.Based on a singular perturbation’s asymptotic analysis of this auxiliary game,the existence of the value of the original(singular)game is established,and its expression is obtained.The maximiser’s optimal state feedback strategy and the minimising control sequence in the original game are designed.It is shown that the coordinates of the minimising control sequence,corresponding to the regular coordinates of the minimiser’s control,are point-wise convergent in the class of regular functions.The optimal trajectory sequence and the optimal trajectory in the considered singular game also are obtained.An illustrative example is presented.
