For a decision rule whose decision region is suboptimal we show how to transform the decision statistic to recover optimal performance. The procedure simply amounts to transforming the decision statistic to yield a combined statistic/decision function which is optimal. The approach may be thought of as a generalization of the stochastic resonance phenomenon, which employs a random linear transf...

Scenarios that describe concrete situations of software operation play an important role in software development, and in particular in requirements engineering. Scenario details should vary in content and detail when described from different viewpoints (e.g. types of user or external interface), but this presents a difficulty, because informal scenarios cannot easily be translated from one view...

Empirical likelihood inferential procedure is proposed for right censored survival data under linear transformation models, which include the commonly used proportional hazards model as a special case. A log-empirical likelihood ratio test statistic for the regression coefficients is developed. We show that the proposed logempirical likelihood ratio test statistic converges to a standard chi-sq...

The roadmap [25] states importance of registration of data sets for creation of the Virtual Physiological Human, a model of a human body. It also mentions usage of morphing technique for interpolation of new data. This thesis focuses on the transformations tied with these operations and tries to find an automatic solution which does not need user set up parameters. The deformation filter for su...

A numerical method is established to solve the problem of minimizing a nonquasiconvex potential energy. Convergence of the method is proved both in the case on its own and in the case when it is combined with a weak boundary condition. Numerical examples are given to show that the method, especially when applied together with a continuation method and some other numerical techniques, is not onl...

A convenient and quantitative bioassay method for evaluating the efficiency of plant transformation by Agrobacterium tumefaciens is important to search plant transformation inhibitors, possible biochemical probes for study on its mechanism. Our previously reported method, in which the plant transformation had been detected by the expression of β-glucuronidase in transformed plants, was improved...

CaCl2 treatment followed by heat shock is the most common method for artificial transformation. Here, the cells were transformed using CaCl2 treatment either with heat shock (standard protocol) or without heat shock (lab protocol) to comprehend the difference in transformation efficiency. The BL21 strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) was being susceptible using CaCl2 treatment. Some Cells were ...

it is extremely challenging to measure first-order rate coefficients for soil nitrate transformation processes directly, either in the laboratory or in the field. in this study, an improved inverse method was proposed to optimize the first-order rate coefficients by considering the intermediate changing processes of the integrated functions. a numerical experiment was designed to test the accur...

Recently, we proposed a new method called the plausibility transformation method to convert a belief function model to an equivalent probability model. In this paper, we compare the plausibility transformation method with the pignistic transformation method. The two transformation methods yield qualitatively different probability models. We argue that the plausibility transformation method is t...

Recently, we proposed a new method called the plausibility transformation method to convert a belief function model to an equivalent probability model. In this paper, we compare the plausibility transformation method with the pignistic transformation method. The two transformation methods yield qualitatively different probability models. We argue that the plausibility transformation method is t...