Motivated by the particular problem of predicting defoliation based on a measure of gypsy moth egg mass density, prediction in the presence of measurement error is discussed. The measurement error variances and covariances are allowed to vary from unit to unit and are estimated by some type of within unit sampling. A general discussion is given as to when one should correct for the measurement ...

The Neural Prediction Model is the speech recognition model based on pattern prediction by multilayer perceptrons. Its effectiveness was confirmed by the speaker-independent digit recognition experiments. This paper presents an improvement in the model and its application to large vocabulary speech recognition, based on subword units. The improvement involves an introduction of "backward predic...

the spatial distribution of petrophysical properties within the reservoirs is one of the most importantfactors in reservoir characterization. flow units are the continuous body over a specific reservoirvolume within which the geological and petrophysical properties are the same. accordingly, anaccurate prediction of flow units is a major task to achieve a reliable petrophysical description of a...

As a next-generation video compression standard, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) achieves enhanced coding performance relative to prior standards such as H.264/AVC. In the new standard, the improved intra prediction plays an important role in bit rate saving. Meanwhile, it also involves significantly increased complexity, due to the adoption of a highly flexible coding unit structure and a ...

Energy efficiency is a major concern in the General Programming on Graphic Process Unit. Recent research focus on the measurement approach and energy optimization of Graphic Process Unit. Few studies provide insight to where and how power is consumed from the program perspective. The aim of this research was to build power consumption model to estimate the energy consumption for the application...

We present a generalization of Szegö theory of orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle to orthogonal rational functions. Unlike previous results, the poles of the rational functions may tend to the unit circle under smoothness assumptions on the density of the measure. Just like the Kolmogorov-KreinSzegö theorem may be interpreted as an asymptotic estimate of the prediction error for stationa...

A number of state-of-the-art protein structure prediction servers have been developed by researchers working in the Bioinformatics Unit at University College London. The popular PSIPRED server allows users to perform secondary structure prediction, transmembrane topology prediction and protein fold recognition. More recent servers include DISOPRED for the prediction of protein dynamic disorder ...

Weather modeling software can be computationally intensive and can also produce cryptic output. To attempt to solve the first problem I tried various techniques to run a weather model using multiple processors. For the second problem, I engineered some tools to increase the readability and usability of the output.

Various papers have reported on the differential performance of virtual machine instances of the same type, and same supposed performance rating, in Public Infrastructure Clouds. It has been established that instance performance is determined in large part by the underlying hardware, and performance variation is due to the heterogeneous nature of large and growing Clouds. Currently, customers h...

A method is presented to minimize residual vibration of structures or lightly damped servomechanisms. The method, referred to as the proportional plus multiple delay (PPMD) control, involves the use of multiple time delays in conjunction with a proportional part to cancel the dynamics of the system in a robust fashion. An interesting characteristic of the controller involves addition of a basic...