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Long Brief Pulse Method for Pulse-wave modified Electroconvulsive Therapy

Authors: Hiroaki Inomata, Harima Hirohiko, Masanari Itokawa

arXiv

Modified-Electroconvulsive Therapy (m-ECT) is administered for the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. The Seizure Generalization Hypothesis holds that propagation of the induced seizure throu...

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Meaningful Matches in Stereovision

Authors: Neus Sabater, Andrés Almansa, Jean-Michel Morel

arXiv

This paper introduces a statistical method to decide whether two blocks in a pair of of images match reliably. The method ensures that the selected block matches are unlikely to have occurred "just by...

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Emotional control - conditio sine qua non for advanced artificial intelligences?

Authors: Claudius Gros

arXiv

Humans dispose of two intertwined information processing pathways, cognitive information processing via neural firing patterns and diffusive volume control via neuromodulation. The cognitive informati...

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A Stochastic Analysis of Table Tennis

Authors: Yves Dominicy, Christophe Ley, Yvik Swan

arXiv

We establish a general formula for the distribution of the score in table tennis. We use this formula to derive the probability distribution (and hence the expectation and variance) of the number of r...

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Qubit-wannabe Neural Networks

Authors: John Robert Burger

arXiv

Recurrent neurons, or "simulated" qubits, can store simultaneous true and false with probabilistic behaviors usually reserved for the qubits of quantum physics. Although possible to construct artifici...

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Generalised elastic nets

Authors: Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán, Geoffrey J. Goodhill

arXiv

The elastic net was introduced as a heuristic algorithm for combinatorial optimisation and has been applied, among other problems, to biological modelling. It has an energy function which trades off a...

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Strange Beta: An Assistance System for Indoor Rock Climbing Route Setting Using Chaotic Variations and Machine Learning

Authors: Caleb Phillips, Lee Becker, Elizabeth Bradley

arXiv

This paper applies machine learning and the mathematics of chaos to the task of designing indoor rock-climbing routes. Chaotic variation has been used to great advantage on music and dance, but the ch...

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Special section on statistics in neuroscience

Authors: Karen Kafadar

arXiv

This article provides a brief introduction to seven papers that are included in this special section on Statistics in Neuroscience: (1) Xiaoyan Shi, Joseph G. Ibrahim, Jeffrey Lieberman, Martin Styner...

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Response-adaptive dose-finding under model uncertainty

Authors: Björn Bornkamp, Frank Bretz, Holger Dette, José Pinheiro

arXiv

Dose-finding studies are frequently conducted to evaluate the effect of different doses or concentration levels of a compound on a response of interest. Applications include the investigation of a new...

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Analysis of rolling group therapy data using conditionally autoregressive priors

Authors: Susan M. Paddock, Sarah B. Hunter, Katherine E. Watkins, Daniel F. McCaffrey

arXiv

Group therapy is a central treatment modality for behavioral health disorders such as alcohol and other drug use (AOD) and depression. Group therapy is often delivered under a rolling (or open) admiss...

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Optimal R-Estimation of a Spherical Location

Authors: Christophe Ley, Yvik Swan, Baba Thiam, Thomas Verdebout

arXiv

In this paper, we provide $R$-estimators of the location of a rotationally symmetric distribution on the unit sphere of $\R^k$. In order to do so we first prove the local asymptotic normality property...

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A new estimator for the tail-dependence coefficient

Authors: Marta Ferreira

arXiv

Recently, the concept of tail dependence has been discussed in financial applications related to market or credit risk. The multivariate extreme value theory is a proper tool to measure and model depe...

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A showcase of torus canards in neuronal bursters

Authors: John Burke, Mathieu Desroches, Anna M. Barry, Tasso J. Kaper, Mark A. Kramer

arXiv

Rapid action potential generation --- spiking --- and alternating intervals of spiking and quiescence --- bursting --- are two dynamic patterns observed in neuronal activity. In computational models o...

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Recovering Direct Effects in Genetics: A Comparison

Authors: Matthew Sperrin, Thomas Jaki

arXiv

In genetics it is often of interest to discover single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are directly related to a disease, rather than just being associated with it. Few methods exist, however, ad...

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Mean Field description of and propagation of chaos in recurrent multipopulation networks of Hodgkin-Huxley and Fitzhugh-Nagumo neurons

Authors: Javier Baladron, Diego Fasoli, Olivier Faugeras, Jonathan Touboul

arXiv

We derive the mean-field equations arising as the limit of a network of interacting spiking neurons, as the number of neurons goes to infinity. The neurons belong to a fixed number of populations and...

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