Obtain a new formulation of the GLRT that avoids enumeration and is computationally feasible by replacing intractable enumeration over possible signal characteristics with an a priori signal distribution, and by estimating the hyperparameters (of the prior distribution) jointly with other signal parameters, it is possible to It turns out that this estimation can be done very efficiently and nea...

Received 10 June 2008 Accepted 15 October 2008 Published Online First 13 November 2008 ABSTRACT Background: Thirteen studies investigating the association between asthma during pregnancy and perinatal mortality reported generally no increased risk. Most of these studies should be interpreted with caution because they were limited in terms of statistical power. A study was therefore undertaken t...

BACKGROUND Although it has been suggested that schoolchildren vaccination reduces influenza morbidity and mortality in the community, it is unknown whether geographical heterogeneity would affect vaccine effectiveness. METHODS A 3-year prospective, non-randomized sero-epidemiological study was conducted during 2008-2011 by recruiting schoolchildren from both urban and rural areas. Respective ...

Concatenative speech synthesis systems generate speech by concatenating small prerecorded speech units which are stored in the speech unit inventory. The most commonly used type of these units is the diphone which is a unit that starts at the middle of one phone and extends to the middle of the following one. Diphones have the advantage of modeling coarticulation by including the transition to ...

In this paper, the statement and the methods for solving the comparison-based structure-parametric identification problem of multifactor estimation model are addressed. A new method that combines heuristics methods with genetic algorithms is proposed to solve the problem. In order to overcome some disadvantages of using the classical utility functions, the use of nonlinear Kolmogorov-Gabor poly...

A flexible radio resource utilization in W-CDMA systems, like UMTS, can be achieved using Call Admission Control (CAC) schemes since the number of calls admitted can be adjusted according to interference conditions. Efficient CAC schemes proposed for the uplink direction take the acceptance decision estimating the effect of a new call on the Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) of the already act...

This thesis makes three main contributions to the literature on Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models in Macroeconomics. As no previous studies have studied the Chinese economy from the perspective of DSGE, the first contribution of this thesis is estimating a DSGE model for China through a Bayesian approach using the Chinese quarterly post-economic reform data representing the m...

Palmer, Andrew P., M.S., Purdue University, August, 2000. Indirect Adaptive Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems with Application to Electro-Mechanical/Hydraulic Systems. Major Professor: Dr. Bin Yao, School of Mechanical Engineering. The focus of the thesis is on the nonlinear model based control of systems with unknown parameters and uncertain nonlinearities. The objective is to maximize the a...

In integrated circuits accurate runtime sensing of on-chip temperature is required to establish efficient dynamic thermal management techniques. In this paper, we propose novel sensor allocation and placement algorithm and thermal sensing technique for indirect temperature estimation at arbitrary locations. As the experimental results indicate, the runtime thermal estimation method reduces temp...