... result also applies to the deterministic signal components as Z k P k Z k is asymptotically the EVD of the covariance Page of 18 matrix of Zk ak (except for a scaling) and circulant A circulant matrix ... is funded by Carl Trygger’s Foundation Author details Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark 2Department of Mathematical Statistics, Lund ... Idier, Bayesian analysis of western tonal music J Acoust Soc Am 119(4), 2498–2517 (2006) 30 MG Christensen, P Vera-Candeas, SD Somasundaram, A Jakobsson, Robust subspace-based fundamental frequency...
... the input data, such as rate of inadequate treatment and average daily treatment cost are known Another hidden cost of inappropriate antimicrobial therapy is the increasing prevalence of Clostridium ... Crit Care Med 2009, 37:3085-3090 18 Garnacho-Montero J, Ortiz-Leyba C, Herrera-Melero I, Aldabo-Pallas T, Cayuela-Dominguez A, Marquez-Vacaro JA, Carbajal-Guerrero J, GarciaGarmendia JL: Mortality ... correlation between delay of adequate treatment and outcome that we imply is supported by data from an animal model of sepsis [24] and also evidenced with human data [25] N epis was left in Equation...
... for each wind class Various input data was taken into account in the calculations as described earlier [18,19], including annual data on traffic intensities and annual emissions from traffic, ... averages In addition, we examined mean maternal PM10 and NO2 exposure levels during total pregnancy according to maternal characteristics and infant characteristics Information on these characteristics ... JR, Bhatnagar A, Diez-Roux AV, Holguin F, Hong Y, Luepker RV, Mittleman MA, et al: Particulate matter air pollution and cardiovascular disease: An update to the scientific statement from the American...
... Stephen A Della Pietra, and Vincent J Della Pietra 1996 A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics, 22( 1):39-71 Caberry, Sandra 1989 A Pragmatics-Based Approach ... utterances in a dialogue Table shows DSBs and their meanings, and Figure shows an example of DSB tagged dialogue DSB Meaning DE Start a new dialogue DC Continue a dialogue SS Start a sub-dialogue ... may miss important mistakes made in the original draft References Andernach, T 1996 A Machine Learning Approach to the Classification of Dialogue Utterances Proceedings of NeMLaP-2 Berger, Adam...
... goal of estimation is to nd model pa1 An earlier approach using partially labeled data for estimating stochastics parsers is Pereira and Schabess (1992) work on training PCFG from partially bracketed ... no heldout data were available to adjust the variance parameter ofa Bayesian model, we used a plain maximumlikelihood model for disambiguation on this test setTable 3: Disambiguation results ... expire at the beginning of spect to the setof grammar parses consistent with the treebank annotations Such data can be gathered by applying labels and brackets taken from the treebank annotation...
... have applied all the methods to the NMMAPS database, the largest publicly available database containing time series data of air pollution and mortality Our analysis of the NMMAPS data is important ... that the national average estimate of the effect of PM10 (PM with aerodynamic diameter less than 10 µm) on total non-accidental mortality is robust to a large class of statistical models that are ... and data analysis we use a basis dimension that is equal to 40 times the number of years of data The number 40 per year of data was chosen because it was considered far more Air Pollution and...
... values and not change much thereafter) IM is a parametric model of an object-track (the law of motion plus the law of radar signal propagation and scattering); its parameters are the track state ... USING SHANNON–EINSTEINIAN MFT (SE-CAT) 304 7.3.1 Association and Tracking in Radar Spectral Data 304 7.3.2 Association and Tracking of Spatiotemporal Patterns 306 7.3.3 CAT of Spatiotemporal Patterns ... parameters of pdfs, which are estimated using available data Learning is called supervised when pdf are estimated using a labeled data set: each object is assigned to a known class A labeled data...
... of Mario A Jauregui and Dora M Danza, was born March 24, 1976, in Salta, Argentina He graduated from the American Nicaraguan School in Managua, Nicaragua, in 1994 He then attended the International ... transactions made with and without a real estate agent It can be seen that structural characteristics of houses transacted through a real estate agent differ from transactions made without an agent Real ... Characteristics of study area Study Area Landfill Type Life Expectancy Urban Characteristics Gahanna Sanitary Years Mostly rural Grove City Sanitary 20 Years Mixed rural and suburban Obetz Demolition - Years...
... performance advantage of this proposed adaptive window curvature estimation algorithm has been examined analytically, and has been validated using several numerical experiments The rest of this paper ... example, when evaluating the area integral invariant [13] ofa particular point on a curve, the standard convolution algorithm has a quadratic computational complexity With the help of the convolution ... (a) A sinusoidal waveform, (b) curvature estimate obtained by derivative of tangent, (c) curvature estimate obtained by Calabi et al.’s algorithm, (d) curvature estimate obtained by Taubin’s algorithm,...
... satisfied We subtract a small value ε from the values sx and s y (estimated geometrically from the image) as these values are already close to the true values Since sx and s y are already normalized ... gradients, and the blur parameter 6.1 Data fitting term Since, we have many observations of the same stationary object captured with a stationary camera, the data fitting term (from (3)) can be written as ... reached It may be mentioned here that p, q are all matrices γm and τm are real values corresponding to a particular source position and σ is also a real value As already mentioned, we use the albedo...
... sectorization and BS antenna radiation pattern has also been studied Cells sectorization and use of narrow beam BS antennas increase Konstantinos B Baltzis significantly the capacity ofa cellular system ... Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Fla, USA, 2nd edition, 2002 [17] L E Br˚ ten, M Pettersen, and A Spilling, “An evaluation aof adaptive arrays for a UMTS FDD network deployed in a suburban area of Norway,” in ... numerical evaluation of the proposed model are presented The accuracy of the proposed model and the circular-cell approximation is examined in detail The impact of the BS antenna radiation pattern and...
... some of them not have a peak-to-average power ratio of one and some of them not have finite alphabet, whereas an m-sequence has finite (binary) alphabet and unity peak-to-average power ratio As noted ... to Spectral Analysis, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1997 M K Tsatsanis and G B Giannakis, “Modeling and equalization of rapidly fading channels,” International Journal of Adaptive Control ... representation to generate data whereas Examples and use a 3-tap Jakes’ channel to generate data In all examples CE-BEMs are used to process the observations; therefore, in Examples and we have approximate...
... Stellenbosch data set, consists of signature images that were captured offline from designated areas on blank sheets of paper The second data set, we call it Dolfing’s data set, consists of dynamic signatures ... signatures are free of excessive noise, smears, and scratches Dolfing’s data set We also test our system on a second data set Since offline signature databases are not freely available, we use aset ... independent database of static signatures However, since it make sense to compare our results to those of another algorithm on the same database of signatures, and since offline signature databases are...
... software automates the data analysis of sequences of raw images After creating stacks of images from analyzed fields and drawing regions of interest, statistics for each of the regions in each of ... method of isotope ratio imaging, where the isotope ratios are calculated from quantitative mass images obtained simultaneously fromasetof isotopes A quantitative mass image, as we call it, ... cellular scale because no suitable methodology is available Autoradiography cannot provide quantitative information on accumulation of FFAs in intracellular fat droplets, and fluorescently labeled...
... drawn froma N(0, a ) Genetic values of animals in later generations were simulated as aij = (asj + adj ) + mij , where asj and adj are genetic values of the sire and dam of individual j, and ... about genetic parameters Gianola and Fernando [2], Wang et al [21] and Sorensen et al [15,16] advocated that Bayesian methods can fully take into account the uncertainty about dispersion parameters ... the average number of animals within CG levels (10) was large enough to allow estimation of their effects with reasonable accuracy [18] With real data, some CG’s are often smaller and especially...
... test statistic was calculated by comparing a general model to a model with equal means (fJ fJAa /= AA = t aa)Because SALP and PAP use different parameterization of effects, parameters were converted ... means ( and Aaa gene frequency of the PAA ), dominant allele (p), and polygenic (ufl) and environmental (ud) variances Instead of polygenic and environmental variances, PAP estimates heritability ... second largest locus increased (table II, sets 1, and 3) An exception was, again, a case when two major loci had an equal effect on the trait and frequencies of favourable alleles at the major loci...
... pairs of lanes of the same individual and between pairs of lanes of different individuals Quantile-quantile plots of transcript expression estimates between pairs of lanes in the HapMap dataset ... data Left: scatterplot of log expression estimates of male NA12045 vs NA12872 obtained from individual datasets Center: scatterplot of log expression estimates of male NA12045 obtained from Abbreviations ... Trapnell C, Williams BA, Pertea G, Mortazavi A, Kwan G, van Baren MJ, Salzberg SL, Wold BJ, Pachter L: Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform...
... secondary antibodies for one hour The sections were stained with 2% aqueous uranyal acetate and then lead citrate Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction Total RNA was extracted from lungs ... 5'-GCACAGAAAGCATGATCC-3' 5'-GTGGGTGAGGAGCACAT-3') and IL-10 (5'-GCTGCGACGCTGTCAT-3' 5'-GCGCTGAG CTGTTGCT-3') in lung tissues from various treatments Reactions were performed as directed by the manufacturer ... development, reaction was stopped by adding 50:l of 0.5 M sulfuric acid Microplates were read at 450 nm Statistical analysis Analysis was done using a statistical software package (SPSS 12.0 for...
... causes alveolar instability, atelectasis and ventilatory inhomogenieties In severe ARDS, just a small fraction of parenchyma remains aerated, and the damage can be so widespread that normal parenchyma, ... this condition Data on surfactant metabolism in ARDS are available from animal studies which showed a faster turnover rate and a decreased alveolar pool of disaturated-phosphatidylcholine, while ... to a number of factors, namely to a decreased ability to degrade surfactant components, to an increased reacylation of lysophosphatidylcholine (favored by the increased availability of palmitate...