Mosquitoes carrying the endosymbiont bacterium Wolbachia have been deployed in field trials as a biological control intervention due to Wolbachia effects on reducing transmission of arboviruses. We performed mark, release and recapture (MRR) experiments using Wolbachia as an internal marker with daily collections with BG-Traps during the first two weeks of releases in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Th...

In the bioinformatics literature, pairwise sequence alignment methods appear with many variations and diverse applications. With this abundance, comes not only an emphasis on speed and memory efficiency, but also a need for assigning confidence to the computed alignments through p-value estimation, especially for important segment pairs within an alignment. This paper examines an empirical tech...

This work describes the minimum volume enclosing simplex problem, which is known to be a multimodal Global Optimization problem. The problem has been used as a basis to estimate so-called endmember and abundance data in unmixing spectral data of hyperspectral sensors. This estimation problem is a big challenge. We explore the possibility of a new estimation algorithm using the minimum volume en...

Estimation of Rybczynski e®ects in a sample of 14 developing countries over 1982-1992 reveals a puzzle: labor-intensive manufacturing sectors tend to expand and capital-intensive manufacturing sectors contract as country capital abundance increases, after allowing for changes in technology, skill, and trade barrier. Empirical tests show strong evidence of multiple diversi ̄cation cones in the fu...

Integrating spatial information into hyperspectral unmixing procedures has been shown to have a positive effect on the estimation of fractional abundances due to the inherent spatial–spectral duality in hyperspectral scenes. However, current research works that take spatial information into account are mainly focused on the linear mixing model. In this paper, we investigate how to incorporate s...

The paper proposes a DCTspectral bit-amount abundance (BAE) instead of the mean of absolute difference (MAD) used in JM12.4 to improve the bandwidth utilization of rate controlling for H.264/AVC video coding. The BAE costs the H.264 encoder the low extra computation complexity as a new rate-estimation metric. It can not only have a good mapping of coding bit count and, particularly, but also of...