... logarithm of the right-hand side of (76) and sticking to the tradition of ignoring terms of order D O(1) and k ln 2π (which are negligible for large N), we get that under the aforementioned conditions, ... signal-adaptive and optimal filters and in doing so we will make use of the notation and definitions of the previous section Two desirable properties of a filterbank for our application is that the ... functions, something that is often the cause of spurious estimates at rational values of the fundamental frequency for single pitch estimation In Sect VI, we derive an order estimation criterion...
... substantial contributions to study conception and design, data analysis, and strongly contributed to the study definitions and graphical content MHK has made substantial contributions to study ... Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave., St Louis, MO 63110, USA Authors’ contributions LEL has made substantial contributions to study conception and design, data collection and ... via utilization of PCR results The goal of this paper is to synthesize available knowledge into predictions of cost andof mortality impact of PCR testing in the management of sepsis, and to provide...
... concentration and the contribution from local emission sources We modelled the contribution of local emission sources to the PM10 and NO2 concentrations at the three monitoring stations Subsequently, ... 10 and NO2 concentrations and concentrations measured at monitoring stations [21,22] Our dispersion modelling Page of 11 approach, resulting in hourly average concentrations, is a refinement of ... J, Zandveld P, Hoek G: Comparison of the performances of land use regression modelling and dispersion modelling in estimating small-scale variations in long-term air pollution concentrations...
... functions with feature trigrams and separated feature functions with distance-1 bigrams and distance-2 bigrams Equation (16) shows an example of an unified feature function, and equation (17) and ... separating the condition of b in equation (16) show examples of separated feature functions for the contextual probability of the speech act analysis model f(a, b) = 10 iff a = response and b = User ... Barbara J and Candace L Sidner 1986 Attention, Intentions, and the Structure of Discourse Computational Linguistics, 12(3): 175204 Hinkelman, E A 1990 Linguistic and Pragmatic Constraints on Utterance...
... set of j=1 training data, consisting of pairs of sentences y and partial annotations z, let X(y, z) be the set of parses for sentence y consistent with annotation z, and let X(y) be the set of ... performance of 79% F-score on WSJ data, and 76% F-score on the Brown corpus test set While disambiguation performance of around 79% F-score on WSJ data seems promising, from one perspective it only offers ... statistical parsing (Johnson et al., 1999; Collins, 2000; Collins and Duffy, 2001) In discriminative estimation, only the conditional relation of an analysis given an example is considered relevant,...
... pollution These factors produce seasonal and long-term trends in mortality that can confound the relationship between mortality and air pollution Influenza and respiratory infections might reasonably ... seasonal and long-term variation in pollution and, hence, some penalization would be required The implementation of gam in R uses a form of iteratively reweighted least squares to fit the model and ... definition of the scenarios relies on the timescales at which confounding occurs and the strength of the concurvity between the pollutant series and the seasonal trend All the simulations were conducted...
... concepts of statistics andinformation theory: Bayesian likelihood and Shannon’s information The principle of similarity maximization, and in particular maximization of likelihood and information, ... These types of models and their estimation techniques are considered throughout the book 1.2.4 A Priori Informationand Adaptation Relative roles of a priori informationand adaptation have been ... hierarchical and parallel organization (of all of the above: goals, functioning, knowledge); reproduction; evolution; social organization; organization of environment; organization of self This...
... (ITOLS) estimation 107 Table 3.4 Hedonic results: General Spatial Model estimation 109 Table 3.5 Definitions and sources of second stage hedonics variables 113 Table 3.6 Segregation demand estimation ... estimation – Iterated Ordinary Least Squared Estimation 115 Table 3.7 Segregation demand estimation – Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation 116 Table 3.8 Segregation demand ... portion pertaining to the house and the portion pertaining to the land where the house is located This results in a system of two hedonic equations for housing and land values as a function of...
... McIvor and R J Valkenburg, “A comparison of local surface geometry estimation methods,” Machine Vision and Applications, vol 10, no 1, pp 17–26, 1997 [32] C Tang and G Medioni, “Robust estimationof ... Press, Orlando, Fla, USA, 1982 [19] I M Anderson and J C Bezdek, “Curvature and tangential deflection of discrete arcs: a theory based on the commutator of scatter matrix pairs and its application to ... the precision of curvature estimation is significantly improved Figure depicts the estimation errors of using fixed radii and adaptive radius It is obvious that the estimation errors of the adaptive...
... simultaneous estimationof scene structure, light source direction, and blind image restoration We present the results of experimentation for light source direction estimation, depth estimation, and blind ... 2002 [25] W Zhou and C Kambhamettu, Estimationof the size and location of multiple area light sources,” in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR ’04), ... Nillius and J.-O Eklundh, “Automatic estimationof the projected light source direction,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR...
... Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking NUMERICAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS In this Section, results of the numerical evaluation of the proposed model are presented The accuracy of the ... closest edges of two cells are properly aligned The model considers the hexagonal shape of the cells It is applied for the study of performance degradation due to CCI and capacity estimationof the ... dependence of the capacity of a WCDMA network on cells sectorization and BS antenna radiation pattern has also been studied Cells sectorization and use of narrow beam BS antennas increase Konstantinos...
... joint estimation version it is exploited to enhance channel estimationandinformation sequence detection The results were illustrated via several simulation examples some of them involving time -and ... allocation, and frame synchronization,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 54, no 2, pp 752–765, 2006 J K Tugnait, L Tong, and Z Ding, “Single-user channel estimationand equalization,” ... approach to joint channel andinformation sequence estimation even in the context of time-invariant channels Objectives and contributions In this paper, we first present and extend the first-order...
... transmission ofinformation In many transactions, the electronic verification of a person’s identity proved beneficial and this inspired the development of a wide range of automatic identification systems ... these signatures contains static and dynamic information captured at 160 sample points per second Each of these sample points contains informationon pen-tip position, pen pressure, and pen tilt Static ... Leclerc and Plamondon [19] and the period before 1989 by Plamondon and Lorette [20] Another survey was published by Sabourin et al in 1992 [21] A review of online signature verification by Gupta and...
... of secondary ions at high mass resolution, parallel detection of several secondary ions, high lateral resolution, and high precision of measurements A new generation of secondary-ion mass spectrometer ... response in cell proliferation in preconditioned and non-preconditioned kidneys exposed to ischemia on day after the initial surgery Quantitative MIMS images were recorded from thin sections of ... can this only for one position of the beam on the surface As soon as the primary-ion beam moves, the secondary-ion beam emitted from the impact area is displaced as a whole in front of the spectrometer...
... Bayesian and EBLUP analyses when pedigree information was complete (Tabs I and II) Nonrandom selection in conjunction with 15% randomly missing PI had large impact on biases of estimates from both ... and 40 females of generation Ten males were selected as parents for the next generation following one of three schemes, i.e., random selection, selection on the basis of highest phenotypes, and ... Bayesian and EBLUP estimation regarding the overall rank correlation of breeding values andof estimable contrasts of CG effects with their true values for any combination of simulation model,...
... distribution and linkage between a major gene and polygenes, on the power of detecting a major gene andon parameter estimation Behavior of the mixed model of segregation analysis (Morton and MacLean, ... correlation between environment of parent and offspring (MacLean et al, 1975) One basic assumption of segregation analysis, which has received less attention, is normality of the residual distribution ... values of estimates were still close to expected values DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS The purpose of this paper was to study the sensitivity of complex segregation analysis to violation of some of the...
... inversion of the observed information matrix When analyzing the expression of thousands of transcripts, the high dimensionality of the observed information matrix and the possibility of identical ... (estimates of μ t ) tend to be inversely proportional to adjustments to the lengths Nevertheless, as transcripts Simulation study of isoform expression estimation Log FC expression −1 Correction for non-uniform ... Discussion) Validation of haplo-isoform deconvolution The non-pseudoautosomal region (non-PAR) of the X chromosome in human males is haploid, and thus the alleles in that region can be called directly...
... Expression of IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-10 We detected mRNA for IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-10 in lung homogenates from rats from control, BDL and BDL+GC group There were no differences in protein concentrations of ... reaction A negative control reaction consisted of all the components of the reaction mixture except http://respiratory-research.com/content/9/1/69 RNA Amplified PCR products were electrophoresed on ... that PIM depletion leading to reduced concentrations or intracellular retention of IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-10 results in the beneficial effects cytokines, inhibition of lung inflammation and mortality...
... and loss of stability of terminal airways at low volumes, suggesting surfactant dysfunction or deficiency Samples of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with ARDS have low concentrations ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/8/1/13 Authors' contributions PEC participated to the design and coordination of the study and drafted the manuscript GMT, MC, CC performed the data modeling and analysis CO and AV ... DiStefano JJ, Malone TK, Jang M: Comprehensive kinetics of thyroxine (T4) distribution and metabolism in blood and tissue pools of the rat from only blood samples: dominance of large, slowly...