Natural selection uses duplicated genes as raw material for functional innovation, co-opting their existing features to new functions. Understanding genetic innovation requires two questions to be ...

Enzymes help with specific functions that are vital to the operation and overall health of the human body. They help speed up chemical reactions and are essential for respiration, digestion, muscle ...

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Abstract: This paper presents a hardware architecture for 8 x 8 2D Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Inverse DCT (IDCT) using Taylor-series expansion of trigonometric functions. The processing of ...

Durable Functions is an extension of Azure Functions that lets you write stateful functions in a serverless compute environment. The extension lets you define stateful workflows by writing ...

Python support for Azure Functions is based on Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, and 3.13 serverless hosting on Linux, and the Functions 2.x (EOL), 3.x (EOL) and 4.0 runtime. This project welcomes ...

Abstract: We introduce Exponential Control Barrier Functions as means to enforce strict state-dependent high relative degree safety constraints for nonlinear systems. We also develop a systematic ...

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The circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body and removes waste. The lymphatic system helps fight disease by creating and moving white blood cells and antibodies. The ...