... the 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, ... estimation ofthe model order and the fundamental frequency The variance estimate in (101) also shows that the same filter that maximizes the output power minimizes the variance ofthe residual A ... selection can be explained as follows: Choose the model that maximizes thea posteriori probability f (Mm | xk ) ofthe model given the observation xk This can be stated mathematically as Mk = arg max...
... acquired infections if 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 ... 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 ... information for earlier adequate treatment The aspect of false positive PCR assays and differential costs for antimicrobial drugs was not included the cost analysis These secondary effects are to look...
... in an averaged spatially resolved concentration pattern for each wind class Various input data was taken into account in the calculations as described earlier [18,19], including annual data on ... Rajagopalan S, Pope CA, Brook 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 ... Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 4Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Authors’ contributions All authors have made substantial contribution...
... acts We add two more syntactic features, Tense and Negative Sentence, to the syntactic pattern and elaborate the values ofthe syntactic features Table shows the syntactic features ofa syntactic ... integrated model are worse than the results of each analysis model For top-1 candidate, the performance ofthe speech act analysis fell off about 2.89% and that ofthe discourse structure analysis ... 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 L., Stephen A Della Pietra,...
... increase robustness, the standard grammar has been augmented with a FRAGMENT grammar This grammar parses the sentence as well-formed chunks specied bythe grammar, in particular as Ss, NPs, PPs, and ... Dozen president., the noun phrase Masahiro Dozen is labeled as an NP-SBJ However, the LFG grammar treats it asthe OBJ ofthe matrix clause Asa result, the labeled bracketed version of this sentence ... expire at the beginning of spect to the set of grammar parses consistent with the treebank annotations Such data can be gathered by applying labels and brackets taken from the treebank annotation...
... penalization) as well asa penalty parameter In our simulations 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 ... 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 ofthe NMMAPS data is important ... having an RMSE that is more than twice as large asthe other methods in some instances Table also shows the contribution of bias and variance to the RMSEs ofthe estimates of β that were obtained...
... organization ofthe brain They created a simple mathematical model that was later named the formal neuron This model was supplemented by an adaptation mechanism by Hebb in 1949, and it served asa basis ... with the mathematical analysis of approaches to the design of systems and algorithms of intelligence in Chapter The mathematical analysis leads to a conclusion that there are few basic computational ... piece of data became available This area of probabilistic theory was developed by Bayes in 1763, and it is often called Bayesian decision theory It was the first mathematical technique to combine a...
... 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 ... has an impact on both the number of transactions conducted bya real estate agent as well asthe final transaction price ofthe property We tested for endogeneity ofthe real estate agent variable ... calculate predicted rent values for transactions made with and without a real estate agent, then predict as if all transactions are made through a real estate agent, and as if all transaction are...
... area integral invariant [13] ofa particular point on a curve, the standard convolution algorithm has a quadratic computational complexity With the help ofthe convolution theorem and the Fast ... significantly improved The performance advantage of this proposed adaptive window curvature estimation algorithm has been examined analytically, and has been validated using several numerical experiments ... (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,...
... source an image is captured, thus obtaining a set of images as observations If a Lambertian surface is assumed, the image irradiance equation relating the surface gradients and image intensity can ... relative motion between the camera and the object, the PSF remains same for all the observations We also assume that the blur is space-invariant, and hence a single blur mask is assumed for the ... used by many ofthe other researchers We then estimate the scene structure and the blur parameter and restore the image The blur function is modeled as Gaussian and the surface gradients are modeled...
... 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 antenna radiation pattern and ... 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 AoA ofthe ... significantly the outage probability of CCI, indicating the improved performance obtained by sectorization and the use of narrow beam antennas Typical values of CIR at the input ofthe receiver in the...
... dB There is also the data transmission rate advantage at all SNRs Further work is needed to compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of CE-BEM-based superimposed training and periodically ... 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 modeling ... zeropadding was used with a random bit in the middle ofthe training block, as in [7]: this leads to a peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) of In the other version we had a random binary sequence of...
... rejection rate (FRR), the false acceptance rate (FAR), the equal error rate (EER), and the average error rate (AER) are used as quality performance measures The FRR is the ratio ofthe number of genuine ... Radon transform can be inverted through analytical means The DRT therefore contains almost the same information asthe original image and can be efficiently calculated with an algorithm by Bracewell ... are then rescaled in such a way that the range ofthe coordinate with the greater range is normalised to roughly 480, while the spatial aspect ratio ofthe entire signature is maintained An image...
... spatial aspects of metabolic pathways and the spatial relationship between replication and transcription As an example, we will show MIMS atomic mass imaging ofthe co-localization of RNA and ... instrument, the secondary ions are separated according to mass and then used to measure a secondary-ion current or to create a quantitative atomic mass image ofthe analyzed surface SIMS has become a major ... quantitative mass image contains at each pixel a number of counts, which are a measure ofthe selected atomic mass and are directly proportional to the selected atomic mass abundance in the sample,...
... drawn from a N(0, a ) Genetic values of animals in later generations were simulated as aij = (asj + adj ) + mij , where asj and adj are genetic values ofthe sire and dam of individual j, and ... populations, the bias in the last generation was around 29% and 34% ofthe true additive genetic mean ofthe population at this generation for RM and MM data sets, respectively For the case of ... The starting values ofthe variances were the true simulation values 2.2.1 Bayesian analyses Bayesian estimates were obtained via Gibbs sampling following Wang et al [22] and Van Tassel et al [20]...
... used as starting values for the maximization process Likelihood ratio test statistic was calculated by comparing a general model to a model with equal means (fJ fJAa /= AA = t aa)Because SALP and ... phenotype had equal effects Also in this case, gene frequency was higher than the expected 0.5 and the estimate of additive genetic variance was almost zero Bias in estimates ofthe parameters was larger ... variance Each simulated major gene scenario (table I) was replicated 50 times Empirical power ofthe mixed model of analysis was measured asthe proportion of cases in which the likelihood ratio...
... regardless ofthe sex-strain combination ofthe parents, and are thus indicative of cis regulation One advantage of MMSEQ is that imbalances are assessed at the transcript level rather than for individual ... consistent with the observed SNP positions and imbalances This approach was taken by [2], who defined these genes as ‘complex’ as long as at least one SNP was significant An exampleofa complex gene ... downstream analysis, a more robust measure can be used, such asthe library size parameter suggested by [21] The only unknown parameters in the model are the μt The observed data are the ki and the matrix...
... conjugated 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 ... inflammation and mortality Although significant effort is invested in therapeutic targeting of single cytokines, these data show the attraction of therapeutic targeting ofa cell such as PIMs These ... supervision ofthe project and read the manuscript and BS is the principal investigator who participated in the study design, data analyses and manuscript preparation Acknowledgements The work was supported...
... lungs via the pulmonary vasculature In the early exudative phase of ARDS the massive, self-perpetuating inflammatory process is characterized by an increased endothelial and epithelial permeability ... an increased reacylation of lysophosphatidylcholine (favored bythe increased availability of palmitate residues generated by phospholipase A2 , released by inflammatory cells), to a proliferation ... 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,...