Authors: Taewoon Kong, Brani Vidakovic
arXiv
Quaternion wavelets are redundant wavelet transforms generalizing complex-valued non-decimated wavelet transforms. In this paper we propose a matrix-formulation for non-decimated quaternion wavelet tr...
Authors: Donghui Yan, Congcong Li, Na Cong, Le Yu, Peng Gong
arXiv
The number of studies for the analysis of remote sensing images has been growing exponentially in the last decades. Many studies, however, only report results---in the form of certain performance metr...
Authors: Yicheng Li, Adrian E. Raftery
arXiv
Smoking is one of the preventable threats to human health and is a major risk factor for lung cancer, upper aero-digestive cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Estimating and forecasting...
Authors: Chelsea Zhang, Sean J. Taylor, Curtiss Cobb, Jasjeet Sekhon
arXiv
Amid historically low response rates, survey researchers seek ways to reduce respondent burden while measuring desired concepts with precision. We propose to ask fewer questions of respondents and imp...
Authors: Ruijun Ma, Lee H. Dicker
arXiv
Linear mixed models (LMMs) are widely used for heritability estimation in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). In standard approaches to heritability estimation with LMMs, a genetic relationship ma...
Authors: Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Mohammad Mansournia, Paul Gustafson
arXiv
The focus of this paper is on quantifying the capacity of covariates in devising efficient treatment rules when data from a randomized trial are available. Conventional one-variable-at-a-time subgroup...
Authors: Christine M. Anderson-Cook, Kary L. Myers, Lu Lu, Michael L. Fugate, Kevin R. Quinlan, Norma Pawley
arXiv
Data competitions rely on real-time leaderboards to rank competitor entries and stimulate algorithm improvement. While such competitions have become quite popular and prevalent, particularly in superv...
Authors: Liane Gabora, Mike Unrau
arXiv
The ideas that we forge creatively as individuals and groups build on one another in a manner that is cumulative and adaptive, forming open-ended lineages across space and time. Thus, human culture is...
Authors: Takumi Suzuki, Nakahiro Yoshida
arXiv
We construct an objective function that consists of a quadratic approximation term and a penalty term. Thanks to the quadratic approximation, we can deal with various kinds of loss functions into a un...
Authors: Sebastian Mathias Keller, Maxim Samarin, Antonia Meyer, Vitalii Kosak, Ute Gschwandtner, Peter Fuhr, Volker Roth
arXiv
Recordings of electrical brain activity carry information about a person's cognitive health. For recording EEG signals, a very common setting is for a subject to be at rest with its eyes closed. Analy...
Authors: Edith Osorio de la Rosa, Guillermo Becerra Nuñez, Alfredo Omar Palafox Roca, René Ledesma-Alonso
arXiv
The data acquisition of solar radiation in a locality is essential for the development of efficient designs of systems, whose operation is based on solar energy. This paper presents a methodology to e...
Authors: K. Anokhin, V. Avetisov, A. Gorsky, S. Nechaev, N. Pospelov, O. Valba
arXiv
We have performed the comparative spectral analysis of structural connectomes for various organisms using open-access data. Our analysis indicates several new peculiar features of the human connectome...
Authors: Sankaraleengam Alagapan, Hae Won Shin, Flavio Frohlich, Hau-tieng Wu
arXiv
Cortical oscillations, electrophysiological activity patterns, associated with cognitive functions and impaired in many psychiatric disorders can be observed in intracranial electroencephalography (iE...
Authors: Xing Hsu, Zhifeng Zhao, Rongpeng Li, Honggang Zhang
arXiv
Stigmergy has proved its great superiority in terms of distributed control, robustness and adaptability, thus being regarded as an ideal solution for large-scale swarm control problems. Based on new d...
Authors: Matthew Parno, Devin O'Connor, Matthew Smith
arXiv
Locks and dams are critical pieces of inland waterways. However, many components of existing locks have been in operation past their designed lifetime. To ensure safe and cost effective operations, it...