We simulate multi-color surveys, which use the same telescope time on different filter sets of broad-band and medium-band filters. We use a photometric classification method for identifying stars, galaxies and quasars and for estimating multi-color redshifts of extragalactic objects. A library of > 65000 color templates is used for comparison with observed objects. Spectroscopy from the CADIS s...

R. Lopez , A. Colmenarez , T. S. Huang Beckman Institute University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, IL 61801 Email: [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] ABSTRACT In the following paper we introduce an algorithm for automatic head tracking using a model-based approach. The input to the system is a 2D video sequence of a head-and-shoulders scene and the output is the traj...

This DISC Working Paper present a first outline of a systematic approach to the evaluation of spoken language dialogue systems (SLDSs) and their components. The approach is illustrated for the case of dialogue manager evaluation. The basic components of the approach are (a) a model of the core properties of the SLDS or component to be evaluated; (b) a set of evaluation criteria which have been ...

Qin and Lawless (1994) studied the empirical likelihood method with general estimating equations. They obtained very nice asymptotic properties especially when the number of estimation equations exceeds the number of parameters (over determined case). We study here a parallel setup to Qin and Lawless but uses a hazard-type estimating equations. The empirical likelihood we use here is also formu...

objectives: the present study aimed to provide an estimation of the current financial burden of renal transplantation therapy for insurance organisations.methods: an excel-based model was developed to determine the treatment costs of current clinical practice in renal transplantation therapy (rtt). inputs were derived from ministry of health and insurance organizations` database, hospital and p...

There has been remarkable progress in numerical relativity recently. This has led to the generation of gravitational waveform signals covering what has been traditionally termed the three phases of the coalescence of a compact binary the inspiral, merger and ringdown. In this paper, we examine the usefulness of inspiral only templates for both detection and parameter estimation of the full coal...