Authors: Bo Zhang
arXiv
Many recent efforts center on assessing the ability of real-world evidence (RWE) generated from non-randomized, observational data to produce results compatible with those from randomized controlled t...
Authors: Hassan H. Alnasser, Claudia Czado
arXiv
In aviation safety, runway overruns are of great importance because they are the most frequent type of landing accidents. Identification of factors which contribute to the occurrence of runway overrun...
Authors: Michael J Mahoney, Lucas K Johnson, Abigail Z Guinan, Colin M Beier
arXiv
Novel plant communities reshape landscapes and pose challenges for land cover classification and mapping that can constrain research and stewardship efforts. In the US Northeast, emergence of low-stat...
Authors: Philip Meier, Erik Flister, Pamela Reinagel
arXiv
We measure rats' ability to detect an oriented visual target grating located between two flanking stimuli ("flankers"). Flankers varied in contrast, orientation, angular position, and sign. Rats are i...
Authors: Eric F. Lock, Katherine A. Hoadley, J. S. Marron, Andrew B. Nobel
arXiv
Research in several fields now requires the analysis of data sets in which multiple high-dimensional types of data are available for a common set of objects. In particular, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TC...
Authors: Bulent Kiziltan
arXiv
The ages and masses of neutron stars (NSs) are two fundamental threads that make pulsars accessible to other sub-disciplines of astronomy and physics. A realistic and accurate determination of these t...
Authors: Pepa Ramirez-Cobo, Rosa E. Lillo, Simon Wilson, Michael P. Wiper
arXiv
In this article we describe a method for carrying out Bayesian estimation for the double Pareto lognormal (dPlN) distribution which has been proposed as a model for heavy-tailed phenomena. We apply ou...
Authors: Avishek Chakraborty, Alan E. Gelfand, Adam M. Wilson, Andrew M. Latimer, John A. Silander
arXiv
Modeling species abundance patterns using local environmental features is an important, current problem in ecology. The Cape Floristic Region (CFR) in South Africa is a global hot spot of diversity an...
Authors: Andrea S. Foulkes, Livio Azzoni, Xiaohong Li, Margaret A. Johnson, Colette Smith, Karam Mounzer, Luis J. Montaner
arXiv
Assessment of circulating CD4 count change over time in HIV-infected subjects on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a central component of disease monitoring. The increasing number of HIV-infected subjec...
Authors: James M. Kilner, Karl J. Friston
arXiv
Neuroimaging produces data that are continuous in one or more dimensions. This calls for an inference framework that can handle data that approximate functions of space, for example, anatomical images...
Authors: Neeraj Gupta, Bhupendra Nath Tiwari, Stefano Bellucci
arXiv
From the perspective of the network theory, the present work illustrates how the parametric intrinsic geometric description exhibits an exact set of pair correction functions and global correlation vo...
Authors: Sreedevi Varier, Marcus Kaiser
arXiv
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, with information on neural connectivity, three-dimensional position and cell linage provides a unique system for understanding the development of neural networks....
Authors: Tiago L. Ribeiro, Mauro Copelli, Fábio Caixeta, Hindiael Belchior, Dante R. Chialvo, Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, Sidarta Ribeiro
arXiv
Scale-invariant neuronal avalanches have been observed in cell cultures and slices as well as anesthetized and awake brains, suggesting that the brain operates near criticality, i.e. within a narrow m...
Authors: Soumya Kundu, Nikolai Sinitsyn, Scott Backhaus, Ian Hiskens
arXiv
As the penetration of intermittent energy sources grows substantially, loads will be required to play an increasingly important role in compensating the fast time-scale fluctuations in generated power...
Authors: Ingrid M. Esteves, Nelson M. Fernandes, Roland Köberle
arXiv
Sensory systems take continuously varying stimuli as their input and encode features relevant for the organism's survival into a sequence of action potentials - spike trains. The full dynamic range of...