In this technical report we analyse the performance of diffusion strategies applied to the Least-Mean-Square adaptive filter. We configure a network of cooperative agents running adaptive filters and discuss their behaviour when compared with a non-cooperative agent which represents the average of the network. The analysis provides conditions under which diversity in the filter parameters is be...

Goal: The chorionic plate (or “fetal surface”) of the human placenta is drawn as round, with the umbilical cord inserted roughly at the center, but variability of this shape is common. The average shape of the chorionic plate has never been established. The goal of this work is to measure the average shape in a birth cohort. Materials and Methods: 1227 placentas collected from a prospective coh...

This paper presents a Tsunami lead wave reconstruction method using noisy sea surface height (SSH) measurements such as observed by a satellite-carried GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R) sensor. It is proposed to utilize wavelet theory to mitigate the strong noise in the GNSS-R based SSH measurements. Through extracting the noise components by high-pass filters at decomposition stage and shrinking the...

There are a number of techniques for estimating the amount of weathering a clast has undergone. These usually have the objective of establishing an ordinal chronology of geomorphological surfaces, or investigation of site-specific conditions affecting weathering rates. Three such techniques are applied to a dated sequence of alluvial fan segments in southern Tunisia. Two of these techniques dep...

In this work we propose an algorithm to perform the affine 3D surface registration using the shape modeling based on SPHerical HARMonic: called SPHARM. In the existing SPHARM registration algorithms the alignment is obtained using the rotation properties, that allows to perform the 3D surface rotation transforming only the spherical coefficients. The major limit is that this approach aligns the...

We developed a deductive database system PACADE (Protein Coordinate Analyzer with Deductive Engine) for analyzing three dimensional and secondary structures of protein. This system has an inference system and a relational database which stores the primary, secondary and tertiary structures converted from Brookhaven's Protein Data Bank (PDB). Users of PACADE can represent biological knowledge on...

A successful protein-protein docking study culminates in identification of decoys at top ranks with near-native quaternary structures. However, this task remains enigmatic because no generalized scoring functions exist that effectively infer decoys according to the similarity to near-native quaternary structures. Difficulties arise because of the highly irregular nature of the protein surface a...

In this study, we demonstrate that partial least-squares regression analysis with full cross-validation of spectral reflectance data estimates the amount of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in petroleum-contaminated tropical rainforest soils. We applied the approach to 137 field-moist intact soil samples collected from three oil spill sites in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta province (5.317°N, 6.4...

In this work, a new class of stochastic gradient algorithm is developed based on q-calculus. Unlike the existing q-LMS algorithm, the proposed approach fully utilizes the concept of q-calculus by incorporating time-varying q parameter. The proposed enhanced q-LMS (Eq-LMS) algorithm utilizes a novel, parameterless concept of error-correlation energy and normalization of signal to ensure high con...

A method to find low energy paths in macromolecules is described. It can be applied either to determine paths between two given energy minimum conformations, or to explore low energy paths departing from one energy minimized conformation. The principle of the method consists in carrying out energy minimizations or molecular dynamics simulations with root mean square distance constraints with re...