This paper presents the first test of whether stochastic growth theory (SGT) can explain the detailed characteristics of Langmuir-like waves in Earth's foreshock. A period with unusually constant solar wind magnet...
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This paper presents the first test of whether stochastic growth theory (SGT) can explain the detailed characteristics of Langmuir-like waves in Earth's foreshock. A period with unusually constant solar wind magnetic field is analyzed. The observed distributions P (log E) of wave fields E for two intervals with relatively constant spacecraft location (DIFF) are shown to agree well with the fundamental prediction of SGT, that P (log E) is Gaussian in log E. This stochastic growth can be accounted for semi-quantitatively in terms of standard foreshock beam parameters and a model developed for interplanetary type III bursts. Averaged over the entire period with large variations in DIFF, the P (log E) distribution is a power-law with index similar to -1;this is interpreted in terms of convolution of intrinsic, spatially varying P (log E) distributions with a probability function describing ISEE's residence time at a given DIFF. Wave data from this interval thus provide good observational evidence that SGT can sometimes explain the clumping, burstiness, persistence, and highly variable fields of the foreshock Langmuir-like waves.
In this paper, we prove the co-RNP-completeness (RNP = Random NP) of the following decision problem: ''Given a 2-dimensional cellular automaton A, is A reversible when restricted to finite configurations exten...
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In this paper, we prove the co-RNP-completeness (RNP = Random NP) of the following decision problem: ''Given a 2-dimensional cellular automaton A, is A reversible when restricted to finite configurations extending a given row?'' In order to prove this result, we introduce a polynomial reduction from problems concerning finite tilings into problems concerning cellular automata. Then we add to the sets and cellular automata probability functions and we prove that these problems are not only co-NP-complete, but co-RNP-complete too.
The distribution of edge values for an image of a general scene often has a sharp peak with a long tail. This property, which can be well described by a Lorentzian probability function, has been used to develop an eff...
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The distribution of edge values for an image of a general scene often has a sharp peak with a long tail. This property, which can be well described by a Lorentzian probability function, has been used to develop an efficient nonlinear image restoration algorithm for reducing the various artifacts that often arise in the restored images. The algorithm starts with a Wiener filter solution which is used to model the edge image by the Lorentzian function so that the likelihood of the image can be estimated. A nonlinear correction term is then introduced which increases this image likelihood under the mean square error criterion. This process ensures that the resulting image retains its sharpness while reducing the noise and ringing artifacts. An iterative procedure has been developed to implement this method. Computer simulated results show that the algorithm is robust in reducing artifacts and easily implemented. The algorithm also possesses a superresolution capability due to the highly nonlinear property of the correction term.
We classify points in R(d) (feature vectors) by functions related to feedforward artificial neural networks (ANN's). These functions, dubbed ''stochastic neural nets,'' arise in a natural way from ...
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We classify points in R(d) (feature vectors) by functions related to feedforward artificial neural networks (ANN's). These functions, dubbed ''stochastic neural nets,'' arise in a natural way from probabilistic as well as statistical considerations. The probabilistic idea is to define a classifying bit locally by using the sign of a hidden state-dependent noisy linear function of the feature vector as a new;d + 1st coordinate of the vector. This d + 1-dimensional distribution is approximated by a mixture distribution. The statistical idea-is that the approximating mixtures, and hence the a posteriori class probability functions (stochastic neural nets) defined by them, can be conveniently trained either by maximum likelihood or by a Bayes criterion through the use of an appropriate Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm.
We show that the implicational fragment of intuitionism is the weakest logic with a non-trivial probabilistic semantics which satisfies the thesis that the probabilities of conditionals are conditional probabilities. ...
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We show that the implicational fragment of intuitionism is the weakest logic with a non-trivial probabilistic semantics which satisfies the thesis that the probabilities of conditionals are conditional probabilities. We also show that several logics between intuitionism and classical logic also admit non-trivial probability functions which satisfy that thesis. On the other hand, we also prove that very weak assumptions concerning negation added to the core probability conditions with the restriction that probabilities of conditionals are conditional probabilities are sufficient to trivialize the semantics.
This is the second in a series of tutorials concerning the simulation of micropopulation models to support epidemiological research. The series emphasizes techniques that are included in studies at the National Microp...
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This is the second in a series of tutorials concerning the simulation of micropopulation models to support epidemiological research. The series emphasizes techniques that are included in studies at the National Micropopulation Simulation Resource at the University of Minnesota. For pedagogic purposes, applications to coronary heart disease models are used to illustrate the principles and methodologies employed. All of the models presented are implemented using available software. Both interpretation of the results of survey and surveillance data, and the simulation for predictive purposes of micropopulation models, depend upon the form chosen to represent the probability of the occurrence of an event associated with coronary heart disease. Four different forms are discussed;each can be used to represent the probability of transfer from the healthy state to one of the disease states or, in other words, the probability of occurrence of an event of interest. These four forms are by no means all-inclusive;rather they are one that are convenient to use with micropopulation simulation models and that exhibit a variety of the different possibilities.
In this paper, the wormhole effect is discussed in order to investigate whether it can lead to the derivation of the dimensionality of space-time. In a Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, the peak of the probability function ...
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In this paper, the wormhole effect is discussed in order to investigate whether it can lead to the derivation of the dimensionality of space-time. In a Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, the peak of the probability function leads to the explanation of the spontaneous compactification down to a four-dimensional space-time and vanishing four-dimensional cosmological constant, i.e. the observable space-time must be four-dimensional and flat.
Halley (1983) conjectured that the AB percolation probability function attains its maximum at p=1/2, and that consequently infinite AB percolation is impossible on a bipartite graph whose standard site percolation cri...
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Halley (1983) conjectured that the AB percolation probability function attains its maximum at p=1/2, and that consequently infinite AB percolation is impossible on a bipartite graph whose standard site percolation critical probability is greater than 1/2. The authors produce counterexamples that demonstrate that both conjectures are false. In fact, for any positive integer N, a graph may be constructed which has at least N AB percolation transitions.
Methods are discussed for computing transient performance measures for the M/M/1 queue. These performance measures are often expressed in terms of modified Bessel functions without any discussion about computation. In...
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Methods are discussed for computing transient performance measures for the M/M/1 queue. These performance measures are often expressed in terms of modified Bessel functions without any discussion about computation. In fact, a common expression for the probability transition function of the M/M/1 queue length process has an infinite sum of modified Bessel functions. For actually generating numbers, however, it is convenient to use numerical integration with associated integral representations, as was first pointed out by P.M. Morse (Oper. Res., vol.3, p.255-61, 1955).
On the basis of a formal similarity between turbulent momentum, heat/mass flux and probability function a concept of turbulent flux density distribution has been proposed. It has been shown that the characteristic bel...
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On the basis of a formal similarity between turbulent momentum, heat/mass flux and probability function a concept of turbulent flux density distribution has been proposed. It has been shown that the characteristic bell shape of this distribution is almost the same, irrespective of the turbulence model from which it was calculated, and can reveal the structure of the turbulent boundary layer, especially the influence of molecularPr orSc number. This concept may also be used to test consistency and to compare differently formulated models of turbulent transport.
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