... determination ofthe noise variance for each candidate model order The criterion in (85) reflects the tradeoff between the variance ofthe residual and the complexity ofthe model For example, for a high ... The number of sinusoids, Lk, is referred to as the order ofthe model and is often considered known in the literature However, this is often not the case for speech and audio signals, where the ... selecting the model order ofthe single-pitch model and detecting the presence of a periodic source Based on the Fisher information matrix as derived in [9], we introduce the normalization matrix (see...
... all PCR reported findings to provide rapid coverage for these microorganisms and their potential resistances (according to the local or regional resistance data for the PCR reported microorganism) ... per incremental survivor can be determined according to Equation when dividing the incurred cost by the number of incremental survivors For calculating the number of incremental survivors, we developed ... terms as given in Additional data file Figure Predicted mortality reduction Predicted mortality reduction if earlier adequate treatment is achieved in 29 ofthe 73 PCR+ episodes: A: Under adequate...
... Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 4Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Authors’ ... University Rotterdam, the Municipal Health Service Rotterdam area, the Rotterdam Homecare Foundation and the Stichting Trombosedienst & Artsenlaboratorium Rijnmond (STAR-MDC), Rotterdam We gratefully ... centres From the age of years onward, regular detailed hands on assessments are performed in all children and their parents in a research center The study protocol was approved by the Medical Ethical...
... constructed according to the subject Discourse structure information tagged in the corpus is an index that represents the hierarchical structure of discourse reflecting the depth ofthe indentation of ... restricted rule-based model such as RDTN (Recursive Dialogue Transition Networks) for discourse structure analysis Most ofthe previous related works, to our knowledge, tried to determine the speech ... corpus Table shows the distribution of speech acts in the tagged dialogue corpus Discourse structures are determined by focusing on the subject of current dialogue and are hierarchically constructed...
... rate (36% relative to the upper bound) than in terms of absolute F-score Both the DR and LFG annotations broadly agree in their measure of error reduction The lower reduction in error rate relative ... of properties for the parses in the labeled training set The result of this procedure is a reduction ofthe property vector to about half its size Furthermore, a held-out data set was created ... tuples of head words, argument words, and grammatical relations are extracted from the training sections ofthe WSJ, and fed into a nite mixture model for clustering grammatical relations The clustering...
... research agenda forward Authors’ reply We are grateful to Professor Reid and Professor Schwartz for their thoughtful discussion of our paper They have raised some interesting points that require ... temporal control ofthe order of 4–6 degrees of freedom per year appears adequate Finally, the existence of daily pollution data also raises the need to control for serial correlation in the data ... depend on the degrees of freedom that are used to control the amount of smoothing Our simulations show that for the sorts of data we consider there is a range of degrees of freedom per year that...
... understands the unordered unstructured manifold world around him in terms of this concept of a track But an understanding of what the track is belongs to the higher level ofthe architecture of ... vector (position, velocity, radar cross section) and its errors From these parameters, IM computes the (expected or predicted) position ofthe track, its expected errors, and the radar signal strength ... internal representations ofthe world and to establish the correspondence between the world and the interpreter’s representations Any structure or object in the world exists only as a result of...
... located in urban and suburban areas The econometric specification corrects for problems arising from spatial correlation and spatial heterogeneity Further, the price paid for a property is divided ... are informed are able to significantly bid down the price The results are strengthen by the fact that uninformed sellers indirectly benefit from the presence of informed sellers, as they could ... price is smaller than the commission fee The bargaining powers ofthe buyer and the seller directly determine the portion ofthe commission fee covered by the increase in price Some of these results...
... improved Figure depicts the estimation errors of using fixed radii and adaptive radius It is obvious that the estimation errors ofthe adaptive radius algorithm are much smaller than those ofthe ... inaccurate at the peak Therefore, it is desirable that the curvature estimator could adapt according to the input data By adjusting the radius adaptively, we observe that the precision of curvature ... important to select a proper window for estimating curvature Teh and Chin [33] use the ratio of perpendicular distance and the chord length to determine the size of a window.B K Ray and K S Ray...
... the images considering blurred photometric observations They recover the surface gradients and the albedo and also perform blind image restoration The surface gradients and the albedo are modeled ... practice, the observations are often blurred due to camera jitter or outof-focus blur Joshi and Chaudhuri [18] address the problem of simultaneous estimation ofthe scene structure and restore ... proposed approach for light source direction does not use any calibration as used by many ofthe other researchers We then estimate the scene structure and the blur parameter and restore the image The...
... aimed directly toward the desired mobile user) is assumed MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION In the geometrical-based model proposed in [7], the cells are approximated as circles with radius ρ The pdf ofthe ... and (18) are compared Two system architectures, the six-sectored and the narrow beam one (details are given in previous paragraph), are considered The rest ofthe system parameters are as previously ... Section, results ofthe numerical evaluation ofthe proposed model are presented The accuracy ofthe proposed model and the circular-cell approximation is examined in detail The impact ofthe BS...
... PAR = and PAR = 1, the first-order statistics and superimposed training-based method and the proposed DML approach with two iterations, under varying Doppler spreads fd and a bit SNR of 25 dB It ... other details remain unchanged Figures and show the simulation results for a Doppler spread of 120 Hz (normalized Doppler spread of 0.003 for bit duration of Ts = 25 μs) where we compare the results ... results ofthe second iteration ofthe proposed DML approach based on superimposed training with that of periodically placed time-multiplexed training There is an error floor with increasing SNR which...
... forgeries for other writers are usually considered to be forgeries of this type Skilled forgeries can be subdivided into amateur and professional forgeries A professional forgery is produced ... signatures submitted The FAR is the ratio ofthe number of forgeries accepted to the total number of forgeries submitted When the decision threshold is altered so as to decrease the FRR, the FAR will ... home-improved forgery, and (d) over -the- shoulder forgery Forgeries Skilled forgeries Professional forgeries 561 namic signatures nor with the recognition of signatures Feature vectors are extracted...
... ischemia resulted in graded levels of protection days later Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) and 15N-leucine were administered to mice subsequent to the first ischemia, in order to characterize the different ... the sample and sputters the surface Atoms and molecular fragments are ejected from the sample surface; during this process a fraction ofthe secondary particles are ionized The identity ofthe ... with 15N-uridine and BrdU, markers of newly synthesized RNA and DNA, respectively The simultaneously recorded distributions of 12C15N- and 81Br- are shown in Figure 7a,b As expected, the bromine...
... All samples after the burn-in period were used to estimate the posterior mean ofthe distribution ofthe location parameters Therefore, breeding values and CG effects were evaluated at their posterior ... sire and dam of individual j, and mij is the Mendelian sampling effect of individual j assumed to be independent ofthe genetic values ofthe sire and dam The inbreeding coefficient (F) ofthe ... were the same as used for the Bayesian analyses 2.3 Criteria for comparing methods Methods were compared based on their biases, mean square errors (MSE), and Spearman’s rank correlations of predicted...
... error level is used Empirical power ofthe mixed model was measured as the proportion of cases in which the major gene hypothesis was accepted Under the mixed-generating model, the power corresponds ... and 3) The same pattern was true when data were generated under the finite locus model: The proportions of false detection of major generated, power reduced when the effect ofthe second largest ... better than the methods studied here when data are generated from a finite number of loci Type I error rate was checked only for the mixed generation model and was around (or below) the expected...
... groups For one group, we artificially removed 90% ofthe reads hitting one male and, for another group, we artificially removed 90% ofthe reads hitting the other male This reduction of reads ... more slowly than the number of reads We simulated reads from human and mouse Ensembl cDNA files under the assumption of uniform sampling of reads and ran the MMSEQ workflow We found good correlation ... and sequencing platform Furthermore, the computational requirements of modeling individual reads increasing proportionately with read depth, which, in the case of RSEM, is exacerbated further...
... tissues from various treatments Reactions were performed as directed by the manufacturer Each reaction was performed using 10 ng of total RNA and thermocycler was programmed for reverse-transcription ... Engineering Research Council of Canada and Equine Health Research Fund of Western College of Veterinary Medicine to Dr Baljit Singh Dr Gill and Dr Janardhan were supported through Graduate Fellowships ... all the BDL rats (N = 5) that were treated with GC 48 hours before the LPS challenge survived till hours after the LPS treatment Furthermore, out ofthe BDL rats treated with GC hours prior to the...
... and from the administered tracer were extracted according to Bligh and Dyer after addition ofthe internal standard heptadecanoylphosphatidylcholine [15] One third ofthe extract was oxidized ... Respiratory Research 2007, 8:13 Background ARDS is a syndrome of reduced gas exchange due to a diffuse injury to the alveolar capillary barrier and is characterized by filling ofthe alveoli ... controls and ARDS are shown in figure Although similar tracer doses were used in ARDS and controls, the tracer to tracee ratio of ARDS was markedly higher than in controls In both cases, the tracer...