We present a novel approach to the blind estimation of a linear time-invariant possibly mixed-phase moving average (MA) system (channel) based on second and fourth order statistics of the stationary received signal. As the algorithm incorporates the solution of an eigenvector problem, it is termed EVI standing for EigenVector approach to blind Identification. One of EVI's main features is its a...

The chromosomal location of the nu gene, which is responsible for hairlessness and athymus, was determined using six DNA markers (interleukin 3 [Il-3], Myhs, Acrb, Evi-2, Mpo, and Hox-2) on mouse chromosome 11. We constructed the high-resolution physical mapping of the six DNA markers on chromosome 11 by in situ hybridization using fluorescence-labeled cosmid probes. The results indicate the or...

We investigated a method for noise removal on Landsat-8 OLI timeseries using CBERS-4 MUX data to improve crop classification. An algorithm was built to look to the nearest MUX image for each Landsat image, based on user defined time span. The algorithm checks for cloud contaminated pixels on the Landsat time series using Fmask and replaces them with CBERS-4 MUX to build the integrated time seri...

This study investigates temporal relationships between vegetation growth, rainfall, and soil moisture for six sites located in sub-Saharan and southern Africa for the period 2005-2009. Specifically, seasonal components of time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) composites from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and ...

Statistical selection procedures are used to select the best of a finite set of alternatives, where “best” is defined in terms of each alternative’s unknown expected value, and the expected values are inferred through statistical sampling. One effective approach, which is based on a Bayesian probability model for the unknown mean performance of each alternative, allocates samples based on maxim...

Social sciences pay a great deal of attention to the effects one’s (dis)similarity with environment. Research values is one aspect these studies, where are most abstracted individual goals which help evaluate various phenomena as either good or bad. Most often, scholars focus on similarities and conclude that being similar environment makes happier self-confident results in better relations oth...

Acute leukemia is a malignant clonal hematopoietic stem cell disease. In the current study, the effects of arsenic trioxide (ATO) on the ecotropic viral integration site-1 (EVI-1) gene were investigated in the THP1 cell line. THP-1 cells were treated with different concentrations of ATO (0, 1, 3 and 5 μM) for 24, 48 or 72 h, then tested for cell viability by CCK-8 kit, cell morphology by cytosp...