Motivated by applications to goodness of fit degenerate U-statistics testing, the Jackknife empirical likelihood approach for U-statistics is generalized to degenerate U-statistics. The proposed empirical likelihood based goodness of fit tests are asymptotically distribution free. The asymptotic theory for testing shift of location, spatial depth testing for central symmetry, Cramér-von Mises t...

Different drought indices often provide different diagnoses of drought severity, making it difficult to determine the best way to evaluate these different drought monitoring results. Additionally, the ability of a newly proposed drought index, the Process-based Accumulated Drought Index (PADI) has not yet been tested in United States. In this study, we quantified the severity of 2012 drought wh...

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1 Z 3 Jonathan P. BOWEN 1.1 Overview of the Z Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1.1 The Process of Producing a Z Specification . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Analysis and Specification of Case 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Analysis and Specification of Case 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.4 Validation of the Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

In a variety of threading methods, often poorly ranked (low z-score) templates have good alignments. Here, a new method, TASSER_low-zsc that identifies these low z-score-ranked templates to improve protein structure prediction accuracy, is described. The approach consists of clustering of threading templates by affinity propagation on the basis of structural similarity (thread_cluster) followed...

let $l$ be a completely regular frame and $mathcal{r}l$ be the ‎ring of continuous real-valued functions on $l$‎. ‎we show that the‎ ‎lattice $zid(mathcal{r}l)$ of $z$-ideals of $mathcal{r}l$ is a‎ ‎normal coherent yosida frame‎, ‎which extends the corresponding $c(x)$‎ ‎result of mart'{i}nez and zenk‎. ‎this we do by exhibiting‎ ‎$zid(mathcal{r}l)$ as a quotient of $rad(mathcal{r}l)$‎, ‎the‎ ‎...