... (33) which is the same as the vector z(ωkl) defined earlier The matrix Hk is therefore also identical to the Vandermonde matrix Zk Then, we may express the total output power of the filterbank ... is the Lk × Lk identity matrix The matrix constraints specify that the Fourier transforms of the filterbank should have unit gain at the lth harmonic frequency and zero for the others Using the ... The criterion in (85) reflects the tradeoff between the variance of the residual and the complexity of the model For example, for a high model order, the estimated variance will be low, but the...
... performed in the ICU if the rapidly available PCR results were used to adjust treatments Published interventional data using the new treatment modality are still lacking For the time being, we, therefore, ... rapid coverage for these microorganisms and their potential resistances (according to the local or regional resistance data for the PCR reported microorganism) was evaluated Furthermore, this study ... justify cost with either one of these effects For mortality analysis the event of non-survival is assigned to the last episode with inadequate treatment within 30 days of death, or to the last episode...
... quality of the modelling approach [14,15] In this paper we describe the design of studies focused on the effects of air pollution exposure on various health outcomes in mothers and children in the Generation ... but was allowed until the birth of the child Out of the total number of eligible children in the study area, 61 percent participated in the study at birth In total, 9778 mothers with a delivery ... concentrations at these stations are considered as the sum of the background concentration and the contribution from local emission sources We modelled the contribution of local emission sources to the PM10...
... for DSBs In the analyzing process, the goal of the system is simply determining the DSB of a current utterance using the probabilities Now we describe the model in detail Let G, denote the DSB of ... [decl,pvd,future,no,will,then] and the speech act of the current utterance is response then f(a,b)= else f(a,b)=O We can construct five more separated feature functions using the other syntactic features The feature ... only the unified feature function, and Model-II uses the unified feature function and the separated feature function together Among the ways to combine the unified feature function with the separated...
... both the c-structure and the f-structure of the parse For example, the WSJs ADJP-PRD label must correspond to an AP in the c-structure and an XCOMP in the f-structure In this version of the corpus, ... bracketed data Their approach differs from the one we use here in that Pereira and Schabes take an EM-based approach maximizing the joint likelihood of the parses and strings of their training ... of the same lexical item are indicated explicitly in the LFG representation but not in the DR representation The main conceptual difference between the two annotation schemes is the fact that the...
... evaluate the estimation procedures in each of these scenarios The definition of the scenarios relies on the timescales at which confounding occurs and the strength of the concurvity between the pollutant ... indicates that neither the natural spline nor the penalized spline approach produces any systematic bias in the estimates of the log-relative-rate β However, that is not to say that the two approaches ... spanning the range of the data The function itself, as well as its second derivative, is continuous on the entire range of the data and the function is restricted to be linear beyond the end points The...
... data about the object and from the concept in the mind” of the intelligent system—tracker The identified structure in the sensory data is a sign It refers to the material entity in the world (a ... and mathematics are introduced from the basics Detailed references are provided for further exploration of individual topics The Definitions section at the end of the book summarizes all the important ... among the book chapters were kept to the minimum within the main text These are contained in Notes and Bibliographical Notes at the end of each chapter, as well as in the Bibliography section at the...
... that the seller receives a higher price, but the increase in price is smaller than the commission fee The bargaining powers of the buyer and the seller directly determine the portion of the commission ... Formally, we hypothesize that the difference between the price obtained by the real estate agent less the commission rate and the price that the seller could have obtained by selling the house alone ... Further, they are representative market conditions prevailing at the time of the study The distance of each property to the landfills measures the environmental characteristic We also include the...
... the circle and the curve are denoted by b and c The angle − → between the vector ab and the x-axis is denoted by θ0 → ac Similarly, θ1 denotes the angle between the vector − and the x-axis An ... complexity With the help of the convolution theorem and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), the complexity of convolution can be significantly reduced [14] However, the running time required by the FFT ... denotes the true curvature the peak but inaccurate in the flat regions On the other hand, the curvature estimator with a fixed oversize radius will lead to over smoothing and hence be inaccurate at the...
... intersection of the tangents to the circle at the critical points The dark portion of the figure shows the portion of the object beyond the critical boundary, which is not visible in the image The light ... preserve the discontinuities The convergence time for the algorithm proposed in the paper was of the order of hours which makes the algorithm unfit in a practical scenario Our approach, on the other ... of the camera, the object, and the light source with respect to the coordinate system Both the camera and the light source are placed in front of the object We use simple geometry to find the...
... Figure 1) Since the users are assumed to be uniformly distributed within the cell, the probability of the AoA of the interfering signals at the BS is proportional to the area E(φ) of the polygon ... defined from the axis that connects the BSs of the desired and the interfering cell, BS0 and BSi , respectively, the line segment determined from the angle φ, and the boundaries of the interfering ... with the circularcell approach are presented Simulations performed have validated the accuracy of the model In many cases, the results derived from the hexagonal model and the inradius circular approach...
... estimates of the channel and the input sequences At iteration k, with an initial guess of the channel H (k) and the mean m(k) , the algorithm estimates the input sequence s(k) and the channel ... iteration On the other hand, the CE-BEM-based periodically placed time-multiplexed training approach of [7] significantly outperforms the superimposed training-based approaches, but at the cost of ... † denote the complex conjugate transpose, the transpose and the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse operations, respectively δ(τ) is the Kronecker delta and IN is the N × N identity matrix The symbol...
... whether the algorithm in question is geared towards the recognition or verification of signatures, the composition of each database, and the error rates for each algorithm We then compare these approaches ... implemented In the first stage, the classifier combines the decision results of the neural networks and the Euclidean distance obtained using the three feature sets The results of the first stage ... angle The accuracy of the DRT is determined by Θ (the number of angles), β (the number of beams per angle), and the accuracy of the interpolation method Note that the continuous form of the Radon...
... gather their trajectories close to the surface normal The conjugate action of the immersion lens and other lenses in the secondary optical column gives the secondary ion beam springing from the ... detect the signals from the selected secondary ions simultaneously The current and diameter of the primary-ion beam, the time the beam is directed at each pixel (the dwell time), and the size of the ... 12C15N- image by the 12C14N- image and of the 13C- image by the 12C- image, respectively The contrast observed in the 12C15N-/12C14N- image is due to the excess of 15N in the area of the cochlea that...
... and νi = σe /wii , where wij is the element ij j=1, j=i of the coefficient matrix and hi is the element i of the right-hand side of the MME 46 F.S Schenkel et al The fully conditional posterior ... respectively The previous fully conditional posterior distributions from (3) to (5) were used in the Gibbs sampling scheme The starting values of the variances to obtain the first solution from MME were the ... samples after the burn-in period were used to estimate the posterior mean of the distribution of the location parameters Therefore, breeding values and CG effects were evaluated at their posterior...
... hypothesis was accepted Under the mixed-generating model, the power corresponds to the probability of detecting the simulated major gene This is not the case when data are simulated under the ... generated under the finite locus model than under the mixed model Violation of the assumption of independent segregation of the major gene and other genes had a negative effect on the power of the mixed ... and 2, the methods had a chance to detect either of the major genes, which may explain the higher power under the finite locus model In contrast, when the same situation was generated using the...
... use the final EM estimate of the μt as the initial values for the Gibbs sampling We then produce samples from the whole posterior distributions of the μt and calculate the sample means and their ... dataset The second RSEM plot from the left is a blown up version of the plot on the far left so that the y-axis covers the same range as the MMSEQ plots on the right Isoform-level application to the ... containing the paternal and the other the maternal haplotype These sets are labeled by i Many reads will map to the exact same set, hence we can model reads counts (ki) for the set The Mit are...
... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SSG conducted the experiments, analysed the data and participated in the preparation of the first draft of the ... attenuated in the hour pre-treatment group, there was no reduction in the concentrations of the measured cytokines in lung homogenates The reasons for this discrepancy between cytokine levels in the lung ... 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 of the BDL rats treated with GC hours prior to the...
... characterize the system, namely the total mass in the system (Mtot = M1 + M2), the mean residence time of molecules entering the system from alveoli or lung tissue (MRT1, MRT2), defined as the sum of the ... quantify from the input-output tracer experiment in the alveolar compartment unique values for the unknown parameters of the tracer model, namely M1, k01, k02, k12, k21 [22] Only the mass in the alveolar ... regarding the site of degradation of surfactant The present results agree with the view that, in ARDS, only a fraction of the lung is accessible to exogenous surfactant In fact, the decrease of the...