This paper employs a general non-linear analysis tool to analyse the nature of time series associated with the price (returns) of a particular company in Tehran Stock Exchange. It is shown that the behavior of the process associated with the price (returns) time-series of this company is weakly chaotic, and due to the non-random behavior of the process, short term prediction of stock price is p...

We consider the problem of providing nonparametric confidence guarantees for undirected graphs under weak assumptions. In particular, we do not assume sparsity, incoherence or Normality. We allow the dimension D to increase with the sample size n. First, we prove lower bounds that show that if we want accurate inferences with low assumptions then there are limitations on the dimension as a func...

The analysis of the distribution of stars in open clusters may yield important information on the star formation process and early dynamical evolution of stellar clusters. Here we address this issue by systematically characterizing the internal spatial structure of 16 open clusters in the Milky Way spanning a wide range of ages. Cluster stars have been selected from a membership probability ana...

Motivation: Protein surface roughness is fractal in nature. Mass, hydrophobicity, polarizability distributions of protein interior are fractal too, as are the distributions of dipole moments, aromatic residues, and many other structural determinants. The open-access server ProtFract, presents a reliable way to obtain numerous fractaldimension and correlation-dimension based results to quantify ...

A system of two coupled PDEs originally proposed and studied by Kreiss and Yström (2002), which is dynamically similar to a one-dimensional two-fluid model of two-phase flow, is investigated here. It is demonstrated that in the limit of vanishing viscosity (i.e., neglecting second-order and higher derivatives), the system possesses complex eigenvalues and is therefore ill-posed. The regularized...

Left atrial dimensions were measured using cross sectional echocardiography in 37 patients with mitral valve disease and 30 normal subjects of similar ages. The anteroposterior (AP), superior-inferior (SI), and medial-lateral (ML) left atrial dimensions were determined at the end of ventricular systole using parasternal long and short axis and apical four chamber views (for SIa and MLa). To ass...