A typical human brain consists of roughly 100 billion neurons, and one key aim of Biological Cybernetics is to simulate neural systems. A good model of a neuron accurately represents the behaviour of biological neurons, typically the spiking behaviour. For cybernetics systems that function in real time with thousands, millions, or even billions of simulated neurons, it is also important that th...

It is essential to understand the consumption pattern of food and how it changes over time to formulate sound economic policies as well as marketing and pricing strategies. In this study, we estimate the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with six rounds of the Family Income Expenditure Survey exploiting the conditional linearity of the demand system. We find that the Filipino diet has become...

Initial population 75000 people Individuals uniformly weighted to represent full S.A. population. Number of burn-in days 7300 days Days from 1960 to infection seeding in 1980. Duration of simulation 32850 days Days from 1960 to end in 2050. Initial prevalence fraction 5 percent Seeding prevalence, high for 1980 but gives good 2010 results. Circumcision probability 42 percent Nationally, 42% of ...

This article introduces an algebra $\mathscr{A}_{\mathsf{MTV}, c}$ of functions in one variable $c$ defined by iterated integrals two specific differential forms depending on $c$, where the product is shuffle product. The can be seen as a common deformation multiple zeta values and Kaneko-Tsumura's recent $T$-values it satisfies same duality relations. Its first graded dimensions, assuming that...

Off-line e-cash systems are the digital analogue of regular cash. One of the main desirable properties is anonymity: spending a coin should not reveal the identity of the spender and, at the same time, users should not be able to double-spend coins without being detected. Compact e-cash systems make it possible to store a wallet of O(2) coins using O(L+ λ) bits, where λ is the security paramete...

We describe an actively secure OT extension protocol in the random oracle model with efficiency very close to the passively secure IKNP protocol of Ishai et al. (Crypto 2003). For computational security parameter κ, our protocol requires κ base OTs, and is the first practical, actively secure protocol to match the cost of the passive IKNP extension in this regard. The added communication cost i...

In this article, we consider the problem of estimating the stress-strength reliability $Pr (X > Y)$ based on upper record values when $X$ and $Y$ are two independent but not identically distributed random variables from the power hazard rate distribution with common scale parameter $k$. When the parameter $k$ is known, the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), the approximate Bayes estimator and ...

In some applications, the response variable assumes values in the unit interval. The standard linear regression model is not appropriate for modelling this type of data because the normality assumption is not met. Alternatively, the beta regression model has been introduced to analyze such observations. A beta distribution represents a flexible density family on (0, 1) interval that covers symm...

Most biological models of intermediate size, and probably all large models, need to cope with the fact that many of their parameter values are unknown. In addition, it may not be possible to identify these values unambiguously on the basis of experimental data. This poses the question how reliable predictions made using such models are. Sensitivity analysis is commonly used to measure the impac...