Authors: Ernest Montbrió, Diego Pazó
arXiv
Electrical synapses play a major role in setting up neuronal synchronization, but the precise mechanisms whereby these synapses contribute to synchrony are subtle and remain elusive. To investigate th...
Authors: Ryan T. Elmore, Gregory J. Matthews
arXiv
This manuscript is a statistical investigation into the 2017 Major League Baseball scandal involving the Houston Astros, the World Series championship winner that same year. The Astros were alleged to...
Authors: Aleksandr Pletnev, Rodrigo Rivera-Castro, Evgeny Burnaev
arXiv
Time series prediction aims to predict future values to help stakeholders make proper strategic decisions. This problem is relevant in all industries and areas, ranging from financial data to demand t...
Authors: Vivek Subramanian, Joshua Khani
arXiv
Extracting stimulus features from neuronal ensembles is of great interest to the development of neuroprosthetics that project sensory information directly to the brain via electrical stimulation. Mach...
Authors: Giulio D'Agostini, Alfredo Esposito
arXiv
In the last months, due to the emergency of Covid-19, questions related to the fact of belonging or not to a particular class of individuals (`infected or not infected'), after being tagged as `positi...
Authors: Lei Fang, Wolfgang K. Härdle, Juhyun Park
arXiv
Mortality is different across countries, states and regions. Several empirical research works however reveal that mortality trends exhibit a common pattern and show similar structures across populatio...
Authors: Gérald Gurtner, Anne Graham, Andrew Cook, Samuel Cristóbal
arXiv
This article presents a model for the economic value of extra capacity at an airport. The model is based on a series of functional relationships linking the benefits of extra capacity and the associat...
Authors: Geoff Boeing
arXiv
This chapter introduces OpenStreetMap - a crowd-sourced, worldwide mapping project and geospatial data repository - to illustrate its usefulness in quickly and easily analyzing and visualizing plannin...
Authors: Dionysis Manousakas, Cecilia Mascolo
arXiv
Modern machine learning applications should be able to address the intrinsic challenges arising over inference on massive real-world datasets, including scalability and robustness to outliers. Despite...
Authors: Marco Henrique de Almeida Inácio, Rafael Izbicki, Danilo Lourenço Lopes, Luis Ernesto Salasar, João Poloniato, Marcio Alves Diniz
arXiv
The FIFA Men's World Cup Tournament (WCT) is the most important football (soccer) competition, attracting worldwide attention. A popular practice among football fans in Brazil is to organize contests...
Authors: Prosha A. Rahman, Boris Beranger, Matthew Roughan, Scott A. Sisson
arXiv
The substantial growth of network traffic speed and volume presents practical challenges to network data analysis. Packet thinning and flow aggregation protocols such as NetFlow reduce the size of dat...
Authors: Kevin Höhlein, Michael Kern, Timothy Hewson, Rüdiger Westermann
arXiv
We analyze the applicability of convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for downscaling of short-range forecasts of near-surface winds on extended spatial domains. Short-range wind field fore...
Authors: Kathrin Möllenhoff, Achim Tresch
arXiv
The classical approach to analyze time-to-event data, e.g. in clinical trials, is to fit Kaplan-Meier curves yielding the treatment effect as the hazard ratio between treatment groups. Afterwards comm...
Authors: F S Borges, P R Protachevicz, V Santos, M S Santos, E C Gabrick, K C Iarosz, E L Lameu, M S Baptista, I L Caldas, A M Batista
arXiv
In this work, we study the dynamic range of a neuronal network of excitable neurons with excitatory and inhibitory synapses. We obtain an analytical expression for the critical point as a function of...
Authors: Lu Cheng, Ruocheng Guo, Huan Liu
arXiv
There are many scenarios where short- and long-term causal effects of an intervention are different. For example, low-quality ads may increase short-term ad clicks but decrease the long-term revenue v...