The universal form of univariate Quasi-Bézier basis functions with multiple shape parameters and a series of corresponding QuasiBézier curveswere constructed step-by-step in this paper, using themethod of undetermined coefficients.The series ofQuasi-Bézier curves had geometric and affine invariability, convex hull property, symmetry, interpolation at the endpoints and tangent edges at the endpo...

The Helfrich’s shape equation of axisymmetric vesciles is studied. A sufficient condition on the physical parameters and some geometric properties are discovered for the formation of biconcave shape vesicles. The study of the biconcave-discoid shape of a red blood cell has been a continued interest in the last two decades. Theoretically, the shape of the cell is to minimize a certain bending en...

A novel extension of the cubic Bézier curve with two shape parameters is presented in this work. The proposed curve is still a cubic polynomial model, which has simpler structure than other similar models. The proposed curve has the same properties with the usual cubic Bézier curve and its shape can be adjusted by altering values of the two shape parameters while the control points are fixed. W...

We present a method for deriving shape space parameters that are consistent with immunological data, and illustrate the method by deriving shape space parameters for a model of cross-reactive memory. Cross-reactive memory responses occur when the immune system is primed by one strain of a pathogen and challenged with a related, but different, strain. Much of the nature of a cross-reactive respo...

Piecewise Linear-Quadratic (PLQ) penalties are widely used to develop models in statistical inference, signal processing, and machine learning. Common examples of PLQ include least squares, Huber, Vapnik, 1-norm, their asymmetric generalizations. Properties these estimators depend on the choice penalty its shape parameters, such as degree asymmetry for quantile loss, transition point between li...