Authors: Ewandson L. Lameu, Fernando S. Borges, Kelly C. Iarosz, Paulo R. Protachevicz, Antonio M. Batista, Chris G. Antonopoulos, Elbert E. N. Macau
arXiv
The brain has the phenomenal ability to reorganize itself by forming new connections among neurons and by pruning others. The so-called neural or brain plasticity facilitates the modification of brain...
Authors: Pandarasamy Arjunan, Kameshwar Poolla, Clayton Miller
arXiv
Building energy performance benchmarking has been adopted widely in the USA and Canada through the Energy Star Portfolio Manager platform. Building operations and energy management professionals have...
Authors: Daniel J. Eck
arXiv
We show that the great baseball players that started their careers before 1950 are overrepresented among rankings of baseball's all time greatest players. The year 1950 coincides with the decennial US...
Authors: Caroline S. Wagner, Travis Whetsell, Jeroen Baas, Koen Jonkers
arXiv
The rapid rise of international collaboration over the past three decades, demonstrated in coauthorship of scientific articles, raises the question of whether countries benefit from cooperative scienc...
Authors: Ălvaro Corral, Ălvaro GonzĂĄlez
arXiv
The size or energy of diverse structures or phenomena in geoscience appears to follow power-law distributions. A rigorous statistical analysis of such observations is tricky, though. Observables can s...
Authors: Neda Kaboodvand, Martijn P van den Heuvel, Peter Fransson
arXiv
Whole-brain computational modeling based on structural connectivity has shown great promise in successfully simulating fMRI BOLD signals with temporal co-activation patterns that are highly similar to...
Authors: Tellen Bennett, Seth Russell, James King, Lisa Schilling, Chan Voong, Nancy Rogers, Bonnie Adrian, Nicholas Bruce, Debashis Ghosh
arXiv
Interest in an electronic health record-based computational model that can accurately predict a patient's risk of sepsis at a given point in time has grown rapidly in the last several years. Like othe...
Authors: Elena Pastorelli, Cristiano Capone, Francesco Simula, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, Paolo Del Giudice, Maurizio Mattia, Pier Stanislao Paolucci
arXiv
Cortical synapse organization supports a range of dynamic states on multiple spatial and temporal scales, from synchronous slow wave activity (SWA), characteristic of deep sleep or anesthesia, to fluc...
Authors: M. Cinelli, I. Echegoyen, M. Oliveira, S. Orellana, T. Gili
arXiv
Modularity plays an important role in brain networks' architecture and influences its dynamics and the ability to integrate and segregate different modules of cerebral regions. Alterations in communit...
Authors: Jia Chen, Gang Wang, Georgios B. Giannakis
arXiv
Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction, with documented merits in diverse tasks involving high-dimensional data. Standard PCA copes with...
Authors: Brian C. Lee, Meng Kuan Lin, Yan Fu, Junichi Hata, Michael I. Miller, Partha P. Mitra
arXiv
Whole brain neuroanatomy using tera-voxel light-microscopic data sets is of much current interest. A fundamental problem in this field is the mapping of individual brain data sets to a reference space...
Authors: Z. A. Vesoulis, P. G. Gamble, S. Jain, N. M. El Ters, S. M. Liao, A. M. Mathur
arXiv
Goal: Limited-channel EEG research in neonates is hindered by lack of open, accessible analytic tools. To overcome this limitation, we have created the Washington University- Neonatal EEG Analysis Too...
Authors: Fernanda Pérez-Gay, Tomy Sicotte, Christian Thériault, Stevan Harnad
arXiv
Learned Categorical Perception (CP) occurs when the members of different categories come to look more dissimilar (between-category separation) and/or members of the same category come to look more sim...
Authors: Q. A. Meertens, C. G. H. Diks, H. J. van den Herik, F. W. Takes
arXiv
The digital economy is a highly relevant item on the European Union's policy agenda. Cross-border internet purchases are part of the digital economy, but their total value can currently not be accurat...
Authors: Malcolm Hillebrand, Guy Paterson-Jones, George Kalosakas, Charalampos Skokos
arXiv
In modeling DNA chains, the number of alternations between Adenine-Thymine (AT) and Guanine-Cytosine (GC) base pairs can be considered as a measure of the heterogeneity of the chain, which in turn cou...