This paper is aimed to investigate some computational aspects of different isoperimetric problems on weighted trees. In this regard, we consider different connectivity parameters called minimum normalized cuts/isoperimteric numbers defined through taking minimum of the maximum or the mean of the normalized outgoing flows from a set of subdomains of vertices, where these subdomains constitute a ...

The energy parameter has been widely used as an extension to the basic features of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) to improve the recognition accuracy in speech recognition. In this paper, a simple and effective approach for energy normalization for silence (non-speech) portions in an utterance is proposed. This approach, named as silence energy normalization (SEN), uses the high-pa...

The number density of rich galaxy clusters still provides the most robust way of normalizing the power spectrum of dark matter perturbations on scales relevant to large-scale structure. We revisit this constraint in light of several recent developments: (1) the availability of well-defined samples of local clusters with relatively accurate X-ray temperatures; (2) new theoretical mass functions ...

kahman is the most beneficial river in alashtar city for agriculture and aquiculture. as hydrology processes have random nature, statistics and probability are base of analysis of these processes and time series are used for this purpose. the first step in time series analysis includes parameters variation through time. second step is to stationary data, third is normalization and forth is mode...

To serve seamless mapping, airborne LiDAR data are usually collected with multiple parallel strips with one or two cross strip(s). Nevertheless, the overlapping regions of LiDAR data strips are usually found with unbalanced intensity values, resulting in the appearance of stripping noise. Despite that physical intensity correction methods are recently proposed, some of the system and environmen...

The beginning and the end of the vascular normalization window are not clear in response to anti-angiogenic therapies. We used dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) and intravoxel incoherent motion MRI (IVIM-MRI) to noninvasively evaluate the vascular normalization window. MRI was performed five times: before treatment and on the second, fourth, sixth and eighth days of treatment. Quantitativ...

Microarray is a high throughput discovery tool that has been broadly used for genomic research. Probe-target hybridization is the central concept of this technology to determine the relative abundance of nucleic acid sequences through fluorescence-based detection. In microarray experiments, variations of expression measurements can be attributed to many different sources that influence the stab...

Signif~cant advances in rapid non-destructive means of measuring the photosynthetic energy conversion of phytoplankton in the ocean have been made in recent years The new techniques offer the potential to obtain detailed spatial and temporal information about photosynthetic rates that cannot be achieved using more traditional methods. A study of a mesoscale coccolithophore bloom in the Northeas...