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Creativity as Variations on a Theme: Formalizations, Evidence, and Engineered Applications

Authors: Rohan Agarwal

arXiv

There are many philosophies and theories on what creativity is and how it works, but one popular idea is that of variations on a theme and intersection of concepts. This literature review explores phi...

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Behavioral event detection and rate estimation for autonomous vehicle evaluation

Authors: Maria A. Terres, Aiyou Chen, Ruixuan Rachel Zhou, Claire M. McLeod

arXiv

Autonomous vehicles are continually increasing their presence on public roads. However, before any new autonomous driving software can be approved, it must first undergo a rigorous assessment of drivi...

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Dean Oliver's Four Factors Revisited

Authors: Jirka Poropudas, Topi Halme

arXiv

This paper studies the relationship between basketball teams' four factors and efficiency ratings as defined by Oliver (2004). The paper introduces an equation showing how a team's four factors in con...

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Contrastive inverse regression for dimension reduction

Authors: Sam Hawke, Hengrui Luo, Didong Li

arXiv

Supervised dimension reduction (SDR) has been a topic of growing interest in data science, as it enables the reduction of high-dimensional covariates while preserving the functional relation with cert...

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A Quantile Shift Approach To Main Effects And Interactions In A 2-By-2 Design

Authors: Rand R. Wilcox, Guillaume A. Rousselet

arXiv

When comparing two independent groups, shift functions are basically techniques that compare multiple quantiles rather than a single measure of location, the goal being to get a more detailed understa...

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Suppression of chaos in a partially driven recurrent neural network

Authors: Shotaro Takasu, Toshio Aoyagi

arXiv

The dynamics of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and particularly their response to inputs, play a critical role in information processing. In many applications of RNNs, only a specific subset of the...

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Neuronal Cell Type Classification using Deep Learning

Authors: Ofek Ophir, Orit Shefi, Ofir Lindenbaum

arXiv

The brain is likely the most complex organ, given the variety of functions it controls, the number of cells it comprises, and their corresponding diversity. Studying and identifying neurons, the brain...

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Investigating Impacts of Health Policies Using Staggered Difference-in-Differences: The Effects of Adoption of an Online Consultation System on Prescribing Patterns of Antibiotics

Authors: Kate B. Ellis, Ruth H. Keogh, Geraldine M. Clarke, Stephen O'Neill

arXiv

We use a recently proposed staggered difference-in-differences approach to investigate effects of adoption of an online consultation system in English general practice on antibiotic prescribing patter...

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Brain Computer Interface (BCI) based on Electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns due to new cognitive tasks

Authors: Zahmeeth Sayed Sakkaff

arXiv

New mental tasks were investigated for suitability in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). Electroencephalography (EEG) signals were collected and analyzed to identify these mental tasks. MS Windows-based...

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Modelling Spontaneous Firing Activity of the Motor Cortex in a Spiking Neural Network with Random and Local Connectivity

Authors: Lysea Haggie, Thor Besier, Angus McMorland

arXiv

Computational models of cortical activity provide insight into the mechanisms of higher-order processing in the human brain including planning, perception and the control of movement. Activity in the...

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Neural correlates of cognitive ability and visuo-motor speed: validation of IDoCT on UK Biobank Data

Authors: Valentina Giunchiglia, Sharon Curtis, Stephen Smith, Naomi Allen, Adam Hampshire

arXiv

Automated online and App-based cognitive assessment tasks are becoming increasingly popular in large-scale cohorts and biobanks due to advantages in affordability, scalability and repeatability. Howev...

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Meta-Regression Analysis of Errors in Short-Term Electricity Load Forecasting

Authors: Konstantin Hopf, Hannah Hartstang, Thorsten Staake

arXiv

Forecasting electricity demand plays a critical role in ensuring reliable and cost-efficient operation of the electricity supply. With the global transition to distributed renewable energy sources and...

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Evaluating plate discipline in Major League Baseball with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

Authors: Ryan Yee, Sameer K. Deshpande

arXiv

We introduce a three-step framework to determine at which pitches Major League batters should swing. Unlike traditional plate discipline metrics, which implicitly assume that all batters should always...

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Bayesian Flexible Modelling of Spatially Resolved Transcriptomic Data

Authors: Arhit Chakrabarti, Yang Ni, Bani K. Mallick

arXiv

Single-cell RNA-sequencing technologies may provide valuable insights to the understanding of the composition of different cell types and their functions within a tissue. Recent technologies such as s...

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Electricity Load and Peak Forecasting: Feature Engineering, Probabilistic LightGBM and Temporal Hierarchies

Authors: Nicolò Rubattu, Gabriele Maroni, Giorgio Corani

arXiv

We describe our experience in developing a predictive model that placed high position in the BigDeal Challenge 2022, an energy competition of load and peak forecasting. We present a novel procedure fo...

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