We have developed a novel method for multi-color spectral FRET analysis which is used to study a system of three independent FRET-based molecular sensors composed of the combinations of only three fluorescent proteins. This method is made possible by a novel routine for computing the 3-D excitation/emission spectral fingerprint of FRET from reference measurements of the donor and acceptor alone...

We present the results of a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. The search method uses details of the modeled, parametrized continuous signal to combine coherently data separated by less than a specified coherence time, which can be adjusted to trade off sensitivity against com...

We present a formula for computing integrals over rectangles of arbitrary dimension in the special case that the size of the rectangles of interest is constant. Compared to the popular method of integral images, our approach reduces the amount of auxiliary memory and alleviates the effect of precision loss when computing large integral images. As an application of this technique we present a fa...

We investigate and extend the cross entropy (CE) approach for parameter estimation for ODE and DDE models introduced in [27]. Software is developed to allow models to be easily specified for use with an existing package for working with DDEs. Our software implements CE and is used to explore potential improvements to the method. A 3-stage optimization procedure is presented. First, an inexpensi...

This appendix contains additional technical derivations and supplementary material for the main paper. Section 1 presents model solutions for the special case where firm productivity and consumer tastes are Pareto distributed. Section 2 contains the complete proof of Proposition 3 in the paper. Section 3 shows that it is straightforward to extend the model to introduce dependence in consumer ta...

1 The purpose of this paper is to study how the different propagation environments as well as antenna configurations impact on the performances of space-time block coded (STBC) MIMO systems. Based on the geometrical differences such as one-ring model and elliptical model with different distributions of scatters, the comparisons on system performances are presented here. The impacts of the mean ...

Cross-traffic data rate over the tight link of a path can be estimated using different active probing packet dispersion techniques. Many of these techniques send large amounts of probing traffic but use just a tiny fraction of the measurements to estimate the long-run cross-traffic average. In this paper, we are interested in short-term cross-traffic estimation using bandwidth efficient techniq...

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), where queries and documents are in different languages, needs a translation of queries and/or documents, so as to standardize both of them into a common representation. For this purpose, the use of machine translation is an effective approach. However, computational cost is prohibitive in translating large-scale document collections. To resolve this ...

In this paper, we compare the performance of matching algorithms in terms of efficiency, robustness, and computation time. Our evaluation uses as criterion, for efficiency and robustness, number of inliers and is carried out for different video sequences with abrupt motions (translation, rotation, combined). We compare SIFT, SURF, cross-correlation with Harris detector, and cross-correlation wi...