This paper considers the problem of reconstructing sparse signals from one-bit quantized measurements. We employ a log-sum penalty function, also referred to as the Gaussian entropy, to encourage sparsity in the algorithm development. In addition, in the proposed method, the logistic function is introduced to quantify the consistency between the measured one-bit quantized data and the reconstru...

Although preB cell-receptor (pre-BCR) formation and cell-surface expression is essential for B cell development, pre-BCR generation of signal transduction remains elusive. Here, we report that recombinant pre-BCRs and the surrogate light chain bind specifically to the bone marrow stromal cell galectin-1 (GAL1), an S-type lectin. The surrogate light chain/GAL1 association is a direct protein-pro...

This paper considers the problem of reconstructing sparse or compressible signals from one-bit quantized measurements. We study a new method that uses a log-sum penalty function, also referred to as the Gaussian entropy, for sparse signal recovery. Also, in the proposed method, sigmoid functions are introduced to quantify the consistency between the acquired one-bit quantized data and the recon...

Current approaches to assess interoception of respiratory functions cannot differentiate between the physiological basis of interoception, i.e. visceral-afferent signal processing, and the psychological process of attention focusing. Furthermore, they typically involve invasive procedures, e.g. induction of respiratory occlusions or the inhalation of CO2-enriched air. The aim of this study was ...

Radio signals are sensitive to changes in the environment, which for example is reflected on the received signal strength (RSS) measurements of low-cost wireless devices. This information has been used effectively in the past years e.g. in device-free localization and tracking. Recent literature has also shown that the fading information of the wireless channel can be exploited to estimate the ...

mouth breathing might not always result in hypoxia, but can contribute to it. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of mouth breathing on hypoxia. based on a pilot study, 323 patients with mouth breathing were selected. assessment of mouth breathing was based on clinical examination and questionnaires filled out by patients and their companions. the patients were also examine...

Dense motion estimation in X-ray fluoroscopy is challenging due to low soft-tissue contrast and the transparent projection of 3-D information to 2-D. Motion layers have been introduced as an intermediate representation, but so far failed to generate plausible motions because their estimation is ill-posed. To attain plausible motions, we include prior information for each motion layer in the for...

In this paper, we first develop a new feature from the last pooling layer (i.e. pool5) of VGG, called Bag of Surrogate Parts (BoSP), and its spatial variant, Spatial BoSP (S-BoSP). Next, we propose a scale pooling scheme for better handling the objects that may appear in different shape, positions and scales. Finally, aiming that the traditional data augmentation focuses more on part the origin...

Evaluation of failure probability of a given system requires sampling of the system response and can be computationally expensive. Therefore it is desirable to construct an accurate surrogate model for the system response and subsequently to sample the surrogate model. In this paper we discuss the properties of this approach. We demonstrate that the straightforward sampling of a surrogate model...

Modeling workflow performance is crucial for finding optimal configuration parameters and optimizing execution times. We apply the method of surrogate-based modeling to performance tuning of MapReduce jobs. We build a surrogate model defined by a multivariate polynomial containing a variable for each parameter to be tuned. For illustrative purposes, we focus on just two parameters: the number o...