This chapter evaluates the performance of edge-based directional probability distributions as features in writer identification in comparison to a number of other texture-level features encoding non-angular information. We introduce here a new feature: the joint probability distribution of the angle combination of two ”hinged” edge fragments. It is noted that the ”edge-hinge” distribution outpe...

Discriminative base motifs within DNA templates for fluorescent silver clusters are identified using methods that combine large experimental data sets with machine learning tools for pattern recognition. Combining the discovery of certain multibase motifs important for determining fluorescence brightness with a generative algorithm, the probability of selecting DNA templates that stabilize fluo...

The identification of synthesizable substructural domains within more complex structural targets is of significant value in designing a workable plan of synthesis. We term this process "pattern recognition analysis" (PRA). In this paper we continued to build on the theme of PRA as a potential resource in retrosynthetic blueprints to reach highly challenging targets. The paper operates at two le...

Neuromorphic systems (hardware neural networks) derive inspiration from biological neural systems and are expected to be a computing breakthrough beyond conventional von Neumann architecture. Interestingly, in neuromorphic systems, the processing and storing of information can be performed simultaneously by modulating the connection strength of a synaptic device (i.e., synaptic weight). Previou...

Many studies have shown a relation between damp housing and health, however, there has been relatively little research concerned with the eVect of cold homes on health. Recent evidence has suggested that inability to keep a house warm is more strongly associated with health outcomes than is damp housing. This paper aims to assess the relation between housing characteristics and ill health focus...

4 String Design 5 4.1 Maximum Distance Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.2 Equidistant code and Bayes rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.3 Equidistant code and unbiased distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4 Summary of Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.5 Code Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

A withstanding question in neuroscience is how neural circuits encode representations and perceptions of the external world. A particularly well-defined visual computation is the representation of global object motion by pattern direction-selective (PDS) cells from convergence of motion of local components represented by component direction-selective (CDS) cells. However, how PDS and CDS cells ...

The paper studies a large class of bounded-rationality, probabilistic learning models on strategic-form games. The main assumption is that players ‘‘recognize’’ cyclic patterns in the observed history of play. The main result is convergence with probability one to a fixed pattern of pure strategy Nash equilibria, in a large class of ‘‘simple games’’ in which the pure equilibria are nicely sprea...

Pattern Recognition Methodology for Network-Based Diagnostics of Power Quality Problems