Authors: Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff
arXiv
Using the InCites tool of Thomson Reuters, this study compares normalized citation impact values calculated for China, Japan, France, Germany, United States, and the UK throughout the time period from...
Authors: Erika Cule, Maria De Iorio
arXiv
We consider the application of a popular penalised regression method, Ridge Regression, to data with very high dimensions and many more covariates than observations. Our motivation is the problem of o...
Authors: Dmitry Kobak, Sergey Shpilkin, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov
arXiv
Here we perform a statistical analysis of the official data from recent Russian parliamentary and presidential elections (held on December 4th, 2011 and March 4th, 2012, respectively). A number of ano...
Authors: Zhilin Zhang, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Scott Makeig, Bhaskar D. Rao
arXiv
Fetal ECG (FECG) telemonitoring is an important branch in telemedicine. The design of a telemonitoring system via a wireless body-area network with low energy consumption for ambulatory use is highly...
Authors: Matthijs Melissen
arXiv
In this text, I will suggest an electroencephalogram (EEG) experiment with which it will be possible to see whether there is biological evidence for the frequently made distinction between insight and...
Authors: Wentian Li
arXiv
One important aspect of the relationship between spoken and written Chinese is the ranked syllable-to-character mapping spectrum, which is the ranked list of syllables by the number of characters that...
Authors: Wentian Li
arXiv
We examine the complete dataset of baby name popularity collected by U.S. Social Security Administration for the last 131 years (1880-2010). The ranked baby name popularity can be fitted empirically b...
Authors: Alberto Sorrentino, Adam M. Johansen, John A. D. Aston, Thomas E. Nichols, Wilfrid S. Kendall
arXiv
We consider the problem of estimating neural activity from measurements of the magnetic fields recorded by magnetoencephalography. We exploit the temporal structure of the problem and model the neural...
Authors: Kevin D. Dayaratna, P. K. Kannan
arXiv
Reference prices have long been studied in applied economics and business research. One of the classic formulations of the reference price is in terms of an iterative function of past prices. There ar...
Authors: Lucilla de Arcangelis, Hans J. Herrmann
arXiv
Neuronal avalanches are a novel mode of activity in neuronal networks, experimentally found in vitro and in vivo, and exhibit a robust critical behaviour: These avalanches are characterized by a power...
Authors: Gašper Tkačik, Einat Granot-Atedgi, Ronen Segev, Elad Schneidman
arXiv
The ability of the organism to distinguish between various stimuli is limited by the structure and noise in the population code of its sensory neurons. Here we infer a distance measure on the stimulus...
Authors: Pamela Reinagel, Emily Mankin, Adam Calhoun
arXiv
We find that rats, like primates and humans, perform better on the random dot motion task when they take more time to respond. We provide evidence that this improvement is due to stimulus integration....
Authors: Suliadi F. Sufahani, Siti N. A. Mohd Razali, Mohammad F. Mormin, Azme Khamis
arXiv
Pneumonia is one of the serious illnesses, which involves lung infection specifically alveoli. Nearly 40,000 to 70,000 people die each year in United State because of pneumonia. Therefore, it is not a...
Authors: Mauricio Sadinle, Stephen E. Fienberg
arXiv
We present a probabilistic method for linking multiple datafiles. This task is not trivial in the absence of unique identifiers for the individuals recorded. This is a common scenario when linking cen...
Authors: Mohammadkarim Saeedghalati, Abdolhossein Abbassian
arXiv
How networks endure damage is a central issue in neural network research. This includes temporal as well as spatial pattern of damage. Here, based on some very simple models we study the difference be...