the multivariate normal distribution and its application to statistical inference

... five Mandarin vowels [a], [i](yi), [u](wu), [e], and [o](wo) with four tones: the flat tone (tone 1), the rising tone (tone 2), the falling and rising tone (tone 3), and the falling tone (tone ... for every tone (1, 2, 3, 4) and the score across all tones (The Fisher score across all tones is not equal to the average score over the four tones Generally this score is smaller than the average ... 450 Hz to 100 Hz, and the formants of the vowel are 384 Hz, 2800 Hz, and 3440 Hz, which are extracted from a real female vowel The sampling rate is 8000 Hz, and the total duration of the signal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... operator P and give the e relation between T0 -periodic P C-mild solution and the fixed point of P After showing the compactness of the Poincar´ operator P and obtaining the boundedness of the fixed ... sometimes and the conditions for Banach fixed point theorem are too strong Our method is much different from others’, and we give a new way to show the existence of periodic solutions In addition, the ... result, P is a compact operator In order to use Leray-Schauder fixed pointed theorem to examine whether the operator P has a fixed point, we have to make assumptions H2.2 and H2.5 a little stronger...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 03:20

... Statement of the problem Let u, x x,, be n+1 random variables with joint multivariate normal distribution: , l u is the The breeding objective and the x are the observed variables s i problem is to find ... = = = = = = The results in Table III underline the sensitivity of this type of computation to the economic weights assigned to the traits and their genetic correlation According to the relative ... as to maximize Ep (u) subject to: , Cn l &dquo;&dquo; where P is given and represents the overall fraction of candidates selected Notations Let !&dquo; (x; R be the standard multivariate normal...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:23

... Comparison of the quantification results of laboratory-scale and full-scale activated sludge by the quantitative PCR method and by the FISH method, and their correlation The results from laboratory-scale ... sensitive and rapid tool for its quantification in activated sludge It would be suitable for routine monitoring or measurement of a large number of samples, and lead to better understanding of the ... Quantitative PCR and FISH method in Activated sludge The amount of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ in the laboratory-scale and the full-scale activated sludge were quantified both by the quantitative...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... noticeably improved, and the coverage was comparable with that for the Nichigai dictionary On the other hand, in the case where random choice was performed, the Nichigai dictionary and the Webbased encyclopedia ... search their knowledge base (i.e., memory) for the description of a given term, and compare that description with four candidates Then they would choose the candidate that is most similar to the ... related to how and why, so as to enhance Webbased natural language understanding Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank NOVA, Inc for their support with the Nova dictionary and Katunobu Itou...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... consider the set of all flux distributions meeting the flux balance relations dictated by the stoichiometry of the system and pick out the distribution for which the total flux becomes a minimum The ... briefly outlines the mathematical basis of the method The second part presents two applications of the method to the metabolism of erythrocytes and of the microorganism, Metylobacterium extorquens AM1 ... imply a thermodynamically unfavourable regime where the flux through the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway had to be reversed to maintain the target fluxes Then, the NADPH needed to drive the reactions...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... from the EcoRI site upstream of the U6 promoter to the BamHI site downstream of the terminating sequence, were sequenced and then inserted into the cloning site of the baculovirus transfer vectors ... pCEP4 as the template The CMV promoter was inserted into the HindIII and EcoRI sites upstream of the EBNA1/OriP sequence The CMV-EBNA1/ OriP unit was digested with PmeI, and inserted into the NaeI ... makes them attractive candidate vectors for in vitro gene therapy studies [14,15] These recombinant vectors contain compatible promoters and are highly effective in infecting primary hepatocyte and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... A B Figure The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models The GSH/GSSG ratio of the prototype and expanded models The prototype model (A) and the expanded model (B) Page of 11 (page ... the prototype model and simulation experiments The de novo GSH synthesis and GSSG export pathways (Figure 3) were added to the prototype model The kinetic equations and parameters of these pathways ... hexokinase and pyruvate kinase, and the maximum activity of these enzymes was allowed to change according to the ratio of GSH and GSSG The equations and parameters used are derived from the literature...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22

... transfer its momentum hq and energy ∆Eo to the v v electrons of the solid The projection of q upon the surface kx determines the plasmon wave vector and, together with the dispersion relation, the ... i = 1, and the lower v v sign for i = This is to ensure that the E1 and E2 fields will not increase away from the interface, and thereby result in an unrealistic field Since the current thesis ... (6) Since all the k values (i.e k ix and k iz ) are totally described by Eqn 2, and 6, these v v equations thus collectively determine whether the E1 and E2 fields are bound to the interface...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:01

... at its end that is used to scan the specimen surface When the tip is brought into the proximity of a sample surface, forces between the tip and the sample lead to a measurable deflection of the ... chapter The distance of the center of the cavity to the surface is h The major and minor axis of the cavity are ˆ denoted as a and b respectively a y -axis is pointing perpendicularly out of the ... you want them to; but these are not as important as perseverance The journey I have embarked on to reach where I am today, has taught me to persevere First and foremost, I would like to express...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... of fans, motors and voltage regulator; Repair and maintenance of refrigerators and air conditioning Since the time factor and scope of the research, the thesis will develop a process to apply ... in general and VT for rural workers in particular in the country and the world, the author found that theoretically and practically there has been no specific research on TFEL and its application ... knowledge and especially skills CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE THESIS - Theoretically: To analyse and clarify the rationale of TFEL (systemrelated concepts, to clarify the nature and processes) - In practice: Thesis...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 15:17

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:17

... value has lead to rapid technology transfer of speech recognition into other research areas and applications Since the variations in speaking style and accent as well as in channel and environment ... events, people, and organizations and all manner of relations among them The great richness of material and the naturally evolving content in broadcast news has leveraged its value into areas of ... speech recognition In the DARPA project, the Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) of TREC and the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) program are supported by the same materials and systems that have...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... alignment between the source nodes and the corresponding target nodes (as well as on either side), which we take to be the state of the sampler We start at a random derivation of the corpus, and at every ... base distributions However the main point of the base distribution is to encode a controllable preference towards simpler rules; we therefore make the simplest possible assumption 3.2 Posterior inference ... GS, EM, and SVM output sentences and the gold standard in terms of grammaticality (how fluent the compression is) and importance (how much of the meaning of and important information from the original...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... gatherer collects articles from Web sites and threader makes threads for them The results are stored in XML, and then pushed to subscribers who can capture the flow of topics by following the ... reference to its source document, an identifying id, genus and differentia words, and other information on the article The tag < f o l l o w s > is used to denote arcs from the article to related ... example, the paths in the graph show the stories of the nodes they contain Multiple paths for a node (article) show that there are multiple stories associated with it Furthermore, if the node...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... resizing and referencing is to (1) find the least upper bound of the types of the frames being unified, (2) update one frame's type to the least upper bound, and point the other's type representation to ... need to look in a table to see what value to assign it An alternative would be to place that value in the frames for a and b from the beginning But since the value itself must be of type a in the ... is referenced to the other If both values are circular references, then one is referenced to the other, which remains circular The feature structure in Figure 8, for example, has the frame representation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... ranking of the candidate classes for a given example is assigned by the stochastic model as in the training Then the binary classifier classifies the example according to the ranking If the classifier ... HMMs to all the nodes connected to the current state node, and the best of these nodes is identified based on the SVMs classifiers The selected node then becomes the current state node in the next ... lexical forms and the inflection forms of the two morphemes preceding µ; the POS tags and the lexical forms of the two morphemes following µ; the lexical form and the inflection form of µ The preceding...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... two points a and b, the line joining them together is represented projectively by the bivector a ^ b If the grades of Ar and Bs sum to more than n and the vectors comprising Ar and Bs span n-dimensional ... so the commutator product of two bivector blades results in a third bivector It follows that the space of bivectors is closed under the commutator product, and hence that the bivectors (together ... simply a handedness and a magnitude The handedness tells whether the vectors in the product a^b^c form a left-handed or right-handed set Examples include the scalar triple product and, more generally,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:29

... because in the three cases the bunsetsu to the immediate left depends on the target bunsetsu On the other hand, the bunsetsu “父から, chichi-kara” is the most likely to be the beginning since the bunsetsu ... information Therefore, the global information is also used to detect the beginning of the clauses If the end of a clause is given, the bunsetsus to the left of the clause should satisfy the two conditions ... excluding the test data to conduct the open test and all the 188 talks to conduct the closed test First, we detected sentence boundaries by using the method (Shitaoka et al., 2004) and analyzed the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... These three sentences are as follow (from Marcus [80] ) (s3) "The judge presented the prize to the boy." (s4) ~The judge presented the boy with the prize." (s5) "The judge presented the boy the ... deleted phrases, "each" and "names", with the contexts to the case frame analysis The other point is to hold undecided case elements in STRCONB The head PP and the subject in the sentences, for example, ... the object or the subject: so that each is treated according to the procedure to decide the role of the antecedent and the omitting grammatical relation Therefore, it is necessary to introduce...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 17:20