This paper proposes a robustification of the test statistic of Aït-Sahalia and Jacod (2009b) for the presence of market microstructure noise in high frequency data, based on the pre-averaging method of Jacod et al. (2010). We show that the robustified statistic restores the test’s discriminating power between jumps and no jumps despite the presence of market microstructure noise in the data. © ...

It is widely accepted that two or more STR exclusions are enough to exclude in a paternity testing dispute. Routinely we analyze 12 Short Tandem repeat loci (STR) in our paternity testing program. When only one or two exclusions are found, we increase the number of STR analyzed to 17 plus D1S80 in order to find additional exclusions (Power of exclusion 99.9999%). Occasionally, the highly discri...

Previous studies on lexical tone as a speakerdiscriminant feature focused mainly on tone production in isolation or with a fixed tonal context. The present study reports an experiment on the production of Cantonese and Mandarin tones in different tonal contexts and speaking rates. Results show that while speakers show considerable variation in tone production in both languages, speaking rate an...

New algorithms were developed for discriminating wow from natural musical effects, such as: periodicity detection by means of autocorrelation signal, algorithm employing AR model for power line hum frequency detection and algorithm for estimating pitch variation curve employing wow tracking based on recording bias detection in magnetic recordings. Moreover. non-uniform resampling routine was im...

Discriminating quark and gluon jets is a long-standing topic in collider phenomenology. In this paper, we address question using the Lund jet plane substructure technique introduced recent years. We present two complementary approaches: one where quark/gluon likelihood ratio computed analytically, to single-logarithmic accuracy, perturbative QCD, declusterings are used train neural network. For...