Authors: Claude Bedard, Alain Destexhe
arXiv
The current-source density (CSD) analysis is a widely used method in brain electrophysiology, but this method rests on a series of assumptions, namely that the surrounding extracellular medium is resi...
Authors: Dominique-Laurent Couturier, Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
arXiv
Extreme value data with a high clump-at-zero occur in many domains. Moreover, it might happen that the observed data are either truncated below a given threshold and/or might not be reliable enough be...
Authors: Adele Cutler
arXiv
Leo Breiman was a highly creative, influential researcher with a down-to-earth personal style and an insistence on working on important real world problems and producing useful solutions. This paper i...
Authors: Jerome H. Friedman
arXiv
Leo Breiman was a unique character. There will not be another like him. I consider it one of my great fortunes in life to have know and worked with him. Along with John Tukey, Leo had the greatest inf...
Authors: Charles J. Stone
arXiv
During the period 1962--1964, I had a tenure track Assistant Professorship in Mathematics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where I did research in probability theory, especially on linear di...
Authors: Sungkyu Jung, Mark Foskey, J. S. Marron
arXiv
We propose a new approach to analyze data that naturally lie on manifolds. We focus on a special class of manifolds, called direct product manifolds, whose intrinsic dimension could be very high. Our...
Authors: E. Greenshtein, Y. Ritov
arXiv
We consider the problem of calibration and the GREG method as suggested and studied in Deville and Sarndal (1992). We show that a GREG type estimator is typically not minimal variance unbiased estimat...
Authors: Lorentz Jäntschi, Sorana D. Bolboacă, Radu E. Sestraş
arXiv
A series of ten plant species belonging to Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons class were analyzed in terms of chemical compounds distribution of abundance, starting from the assumption that these distributi...
Authors: Stephan R. Sain, Reinhard Furrer, Noel Cressie
arXiv
Climate models have become an important tool in the study of climate and climate change, and ensemble experiments consisting of multiple climate-model runs are used in studying and quantifying the unc...
Authors: Rémy Cuisinier, Isabelle Olivier, Jocelyne Troccaz, Nicolas Vuillerme, Vincent Nougier
arXiv
The aim of the present study was to investigate memory effects, force accuracy, and variability during constant isometric force at different force levels, using auditory biofeedback. Two types of tran...
Authors: Sebastiano Stramaglia, Daniele Marinazzo, Mario Pellicoro, Marina de Tommaso
arXiv
Migraine patients with aura show a peculiar pattern of visual reactivity compared with those of migraine patients without aura: an increased effective connectivity, connected to a reduced synchronizat...
Authors: J. J. Torres, J. Marro, J. F. Mejias
arXiv
We theoretically describe how weak signals may be efficiently transmitted throughout more than one frequency range in noisy excitable media by kind of stochastic multiresonance. This serves us here to...
Authors: Hideo Hasegawa
arXiv
In a recent paper [A. Moujahid, A. d'Anjou, F. J. Torrealdea and F. Torrealdea, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 83}, 031912 (2011)], the authors have calculated the energy consumed in firing neurons by using the Ho...
Authors: Marius Buliga
arXiv
What is space computing, simulation, or understanding? Converging from several sources, this seems to be something more primitive than what is usually meant by computation, something that was along wi...
Authors: Juergen Reingruber, David Holcman
arXiv
The mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to reach a small target in cellular microdomains is a key parameter for chemical activation. Although asymptotic estimations of the MFPT are...