at various stages of the research are gratefully acknowledged. We thank Parul Pant for research assistance and Donna Otto for help in preparing the manuscript.

This note describes the Front-End Electronics for the ICARUS Experiment, in particular the Preamplifier structure and the strategy foreseen to digitize the signals to achieve the required dynamic range.

Multi Front-End Engineering (MFE) deals with the design of multiple consistent user interfaces (UI) for one application. One of the main challenges is the conflict between commonality (all front-ends access the same application core) and variability (multiple front-ends on different platforms). This can be overcome by extending techniques from model-driven user interface engineering. We present...

The cluster bootstrap resamples clusters or subjects instead of individual observations in order to preserve the dependence within each cluster or subject. In this paper, we provide a theoretical justification of using the cluster bootstrap for the inferences of the generalized estimating equations (GEE) for clustered/longitudinal data. Under the general exchangeable bootstrap weights, we show ...

This paper examines the intentional herd behaviour of market participants, using Li’s test to compare the probability distributions of the scaled cross-sectional deviation in returns in the intraday market with the cross-sectional deviation in returns in an ‘artificially created’ market free of intentional herding effects. The analysis is carried out for both the overall market and a sample of ...

This paper describes “cranking”, a new committee formation algorithm. Cranking results in accurate and reliable committee predictions, even when applied to complex industrial tasks. Prediction error estimates are used to rank a pool of models trained on bootstrap data samples. The best are then used to form a committee. This paper presents a comparison of prediction error estimates that may be ...

Bootstrapping is a technique commonly known by its usage in language definition by the introduction of a compiler written in the same language it compiles. This process is important to understand and modify the definition of a given language using the same language, taking benefit of the abstractions and expression power it provides. A bootstrap, then, supports the evolution of a language. Howe...

I and Q Channel phase and gain misniatches are of great concern in communications receiver design. In this paper we analyse the effects of I and Q channel mismatches and propose a lowcomplexity blind adaptive algorithm to minimize this problem. The proposed solution consists of two, 2-tap adaptive filters. arranged in Adaptive Noise Canceller (ANC) set-up, with the output of one cross-fed to th...