With the increase of wind power as a renewable energy source in many countries, wind speed forecasting has become more and more important to the planning of wind speed plants, the scheduling of dispatchable generation and tariffs in the day-ahead electricity market, and the operation of power systems. However, the uncertainty of wind speed makes troubles in them. For this reason, a wind speed f...

In this paper, we propose a novel video retrieval system using Generalized Eigenvalue Decomposition (GED). The system contains two major subsystems: database creation and database searching. In both subsystems, we propose new methods for shot-feature extraction, feature dimension transformation and feature similarity measuring base on GED. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of our p...

The gas-phase structures of the disilanes 1,1,2,2-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)disilane [(Me3Si)2HSiSiH(SiMe3)2] (1) and 1,1,2,2-tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)dimethyldisilane [(Me3Si)2MeSiSiMe(SiMe3)2] (2) have been determined by density functional theoretical calculations and by gas electron diffraction (GED) employing the SARACEN method. For each of 1 and 2 DFT calculations revealed four C2-symmetric c...

This paper presents a novel, fast converging on-line rule for Generalized Eigendecomposition (GED) and its application in time series segmentation. We adopt the concepts of deflation and power method to iteratively estimate the generalized eigencomponents. The algorithm is guaranteed to produce stable results. In the second half of the paper, we discuss the application of GED to segment time se...

Graph edit distance (GED) has emerged as a powerful and flexible graph matching paradigm that can be used to address different tasks in pattern recognition, machine learning, and data mining. GED is an error-tolerant graph matching problem which consists in minimizing the cost of the sequence that transforms a graph into another by means of edit operations. Edit operations are deletion, inserti...

Many people are learning English as a second or foreign language, and there are estimated 375 million English as a Second Language (ESL) and 750 million English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners around the world according to Graddol (2006). Evidently, automatic grammar checkers are much needed to help learners improve their writing. However, typical English proofreading tools do not target s...

Gastric epithelial dysplasia (GED) represents a recognized precursor lesion of gastric adenocarcinoma. GED types can be classified according to its morphology and patterns of mucin expression into adenomatous (intestinal), foveolar (gastric) and hybrid (mixed) types. We examined gastroscopic specimens with GED in 35 patients (21 men and 14 women, mean age 69.6 years). Adenomatous dysplasia was ...

In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development exam, or GED, using data from the Current Population Survey. We examine how the return to the GED varies between natives in the U.S. and the foreign-born who received their formal education outside of the U.S. We find that the foreign-schooled with a GED earn statistically significantly higher wages than both...

In this paper, we introduce the record values arising from gamma distribution with three parameters. Next, we compute the means, variances and covariances of the lower record values. Then, we use these moments to calculate the best linear unbiased estimates (BLUES) for the location and scale parameters of gamma distribution. By using the BLUES, we construct confidence intervals for the location...