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The effects of estimation of censoring, truncation, transformation and partial data vectors
The purpose of this research was to attack statistical problems concerning the estimation of distributions for purposes of predicting and measuring assembly performance as it appears in biological and physical situations. Various statistical procedures were proposed to attack problems of this sort, that is, to produce the statistical distributions of the outcomes of biological and physical situations which, employ characteristics measured on constituent parts. The techniques are described
Stochastic compartmental analysis - Some applications and examples of estimation in a pulse labelled system
Stochastic compartmental analysis with examples of estimation in pulse labelled syste
Confidence regions for variance ratios in variance components models
Statistical mechanics for constructing confidence intervals for variance ratios in balanced and unbalanced experimental design
Screening of the transcriptional regulatory regions of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Background
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has neurotrophic activity which is mediated by its main agonist receptor, VEGFR2. Dysregulation of VEGF causes motor neurone degeneration in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and expression of VEGFR2 is reduced in motor neurones and spinal cord of patients with ALS.
Methods
We have screened the promoter region and 4 exonic regions of functional significance of the VEGFR2 gene in a UK population of patients with ALS, for mutations and polymorphisms that may affect expression or function of this VEGF receptor.
Results
No mutations were identified in the VEGFR2 gene. We found no association between polymorphisms in the regulatory regions of the VEGFR2 gene and ALS.
Conclusion
Mechanisms other than genetic variation may downregulate expression or function of the VEGFR2 receptor in patients with ALS
Alien Registration- Stanley, Hartley H. (Portland, Cumberland County)
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Self-Calibration of Cameras with Euclidean Image Plane in Case of Two Views and Known Relative Rotation Angle
The internal calibration of a pinhole camera is given by five parameters that
are combined into an upper-triangular calibration matrix. If the
skew parameter is zero and the aspect ratio is equal to one, then the camera is
said to have Euclidean image plane. In this paper, we propose a non-iterative
self-calibration algorithm for a camera with Euclidean image plane in case the
remaining three internal parameters --- the focal length and the principal
point coordinates --- are fixed but unknown. The algorithm requires a set of point correspondences in two views and also the measured relative
rotation angle between the views. We show that the problem generically has six
solutions (including complex ones).
The algorithm has been implemented and tested both on synthetic data and on
publicly available real dataset. The experiments demonstrate that the method is
correct, numerically stable and robust.Comment: 13 pages, 7 eps-figure
A limited speech recognition system 2 Final report
Limited speech recognition system for computer voice lin
On Waylen's regular axisymmetric similarity solutions
We review the similarity solutions proposed by Waylen for a regular
time-dependent axisymmetric vacuum space-time, and show that the key equation
introduced to solve the invariant surface conditions is related by a Baecklund
transform to a restriction on the similarity variables. We further show that
the vacuum space-times produced via this path automatically possess a (possibly
homothetic) Killing vector, which may be time-like.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX2
Cheryl's Birthday
We present four logic puzzles and after that their solutions. Joseph Yeo
designed 'Cheryl's Birthday'. Mike Hartley came up with a novel solution for
'One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb'. Jonathan Welton designed 'A Blind
Guess' and 'Abby's Birthday'. Hans van Ditmarsch and Barteld Kooi authored the
puzzlebook 'One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb' that contains other
knowledge puzzles, and that can also be found on the webpage
http://personal.us.es/hvd/lightbulb.html dedicated to the book.Comment: In Proceedings TARK 2017, arXiv:1707.0825
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