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Off-line detection of multiple change points with the Filtered Derivative with p-Value method
This paper deals with off-line detection of change points for time series of
independent observations, when the number of change points is unknown. We
propose a sequential analysis like method with linear time and memory
complexity. Our method is based at first step, on Filtered Derivative method
which detects the right change points but also false ones. We improve Filtered
Derivative method by adding a second step in which we compute the p-values
associated to each potential change points. Then we eliminate as false alarms
the points which have p-value smaller than a given critical level. Next, our
method is compared with the Penalized Least Square Criterion procedure on
simulated data sets. Eventually, we apply Filtered Derivative with p-Value
method to segmentation of heartbeat time series, and detection of change points
in the average daily volume of financial time series
Fast change point analysis on the Hurst index of piecewise fractional Brownian motion
In this presentation, we introduce a new method for change point analysis on
the Hurst index for a piecewise fractional Brownian motion. We first set the
model and the statistical problem. The proposed method is a transposition of
the FDpV (Filtered Derivative with p-value) method introduced for the detection
of change points on the mean in Bertrand et al. (2011) to the case of changes
on the Hurst index. The underlying statistics of the FDpV technology is a new
statistic estimator for Hurst index, so-called Increment Bernoulli Statistic
(IBS). Both FDpV and IBS are methods with linear time and memory complexity,
with respect to the size of the series. Thus the resulting method for change
point analysis on Hurst index reaches also a linear complexity
Expansion of the crop ontology by adding cassava trait ontology
Poster presented at CGIAR Generation Challenge Programme, General Research Meeting. Hyderabad (India), 21-25 Sep 201
Fluorescence from a few electrons
Systems containing few Fermions (e.g., electrons) are of great current
interest. Fluorescence occurs when electrons drop from one level to another
without changing spin. Only electron gases in a state of equilibrium are
considered. When the system may exchange electrons with a large reservoir, the
electron-gas fluorescence is easily obtained from the well-known Fermi-Dirac
distribution. But this is not so when the number of electrons in the system is
prevented from varying, as is the case for isolated systems and for systems
that are in thermal contact with electrical insulators such as diamond. Our
accurate expressions rest on the assumption that single-electron energy levels
are evenly spaced, and that energy coupling and spin coupling between electrons
are small. These assumptions are shown to be realistic for many systems.
Fluorescence from short, nearly isolated, quantum wires is predicted to drop
abruptly in the visible, a result not predicted by the Fermi-Dirac
distribution. Our exact formulas are based on restricted and unrestricted
partitions of integers. The method is considerably simpler than the ones
proposed earlier, which are based on second quantization and contour
integration.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, RevTe
Development of GCP Ontology for sharing crop information
Poster presented at 3rd International Biocuration Conference. Berlin (Germany), 17 Apr 200
Origin of Second Harmonic Generation from individual Silicon Nanowires
We investigate Second Harmonic Generation from individual silicon nanowires
and study the influence of resonant optical modes on the far-field nonlinear
emission. We find that the polarization of the Second Harmonic has a
size-dependent behavior and explain this phenomenon by a combination of
different surface and bulk nonlinear susceptibility contributions. We show that
the Second Harmonic Generation has an entirely different origin, depending on
whether the incident illumination is polarized parallel or perpendicularly to
the nanowire axis. The results open perspectives for further geometry-based
studies on the origin of Second Harmonic Generation in nanostructures of
high-index centrosymmetric semiconductors.Comment: 7 Pages, 4 Figures + 3 Pages, 6 Figures in Appendi
Bent-Double Radio Sources as Probes of Intergalactic Gas
As the most common environment in the universe, groups of galaxies are likely
to contain a significant fraction of the missing baryons in the form of
intergalactic gas. The density of this gas is an important factor in whether
ram pressure stripping and strangulation affect the evolution of galaxies in
these systems. We present a method for measuring the density of intergalactic
gas using bent-double radio sources that is independent of temperature, making
it complementary to current absorption line measurements. We use this method to
probe intergalactic gas in two different environments: inside a small group of
galaxies as well as outside of a larger group at a 2 Mpc radius and measure
total gas densities of and per cubic centimeter (random and systematic
errors) respectively. We use X-ray data to place an upper limit of K on the temperature of the intragroup gas in the small group.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Ap
Linear Haskell: practical linearity in a higher-order polymorphic language
Linear type systems have a long and storied history, but not a clear path
forward to integrate with existing languages such as OCaml or Haskell. In this
paper, we study a linear type system designed with two crucial properties in
mind: backwards-compatibility and code reuse across linear and non-linear users
of a library. Only then can the benefits of linear types permeate conventional
functional programming. Rather than bifurcate types into linear and non-linear
counterparts, we instead attach linearity to function arrows. Linear functions
can receive inputs from linearly-bound values, but can also operate over
unrestricted, regular values.
To demonstrate the efficacy of our linear type system - both how easy it can
be integrated in an existing language implementation and how streamlined it
makes it to write programs with linear types - we implemented our type system
in GHC, the leading Haskell compiler, and demonstrate two kinds of applications
of linear types: mutable data with pure interfaces; and enforcing protocols in
I/O-performing functions
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