Effects of many medical procedures appear after a time lag, when a significant change occurs in subjects’ failure rate. This paper focuses on the detection and estimation of such changes which is important for the ev...
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Effects of many medical procedures appear after a time lag, when a significant change occurs in subjects’ failure rate. This paper focuses on the detection and estimation of such changes which is important for the evaluation and comparison of treatments and prediction of their effects. Unlike the classical change-point model, measurements may still be identically distributed, and the change point is a parameter of their common survival function. Some of the classical change-point detection techniques can still be used but the results are different. Contrary to the classical model, the maximum likelihood estimator of a change point appears consistent, even in presence of nuisance parameters. However, a more efficient procedure can be derived from Kaplan-Meier estimation of the survival function followed by the least-squares estimation of the change point. Strong consistency of these estimation schemes is proved. The finite-sample properties are examined by a Monte Carlo study. Proposed methods are applied to a recent clinical trial of the treatment program for strong drug dependence.
In this paper we are presenting a brief overview of research on blending splines from 2004-2015. We discuss some of the properties which can be interesting to investigate when blending splines are used both for finite...
In this paper we are presenting a brief overview of research on blending splines from 2004-2015. We discuss some of the properties which can be interesting to investigate when blending splines are used both for finite element analysis and geometry. Blending splines are constructions where local geometry is blended together by a blending function to create global geometry. The different basis functions has different properties, which can be related to different application areas. Example application areas where blending splines are utilized is listed, together with a focus on the basis and future work towards utilizing parts of blending splines in an isogeometric analysis(IGA) context.
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are widely accepted by researchers as a method of solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), at least for listing a high quality approximation of the Pareto front of a MOP. In traff...
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(纸本)9781479904532
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are widely accepted by researchers as a method of solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), at least for listing a high quality approximation of the Pareto front of a MOP. In traffic management, it has been long established that tolls can be used to optimally distribute traffic in a network with aim of combating some traffic externalities such as congestion, emission, noise, safety issues. Formulating the multi-objective toll problem as a one point solution problem fails to give the general overview of the objective space of the MOP. Therefore, in this paper we develop a game theoretic approach that gives the general overview of the objective space of the multiobjective problem and compare the results with those of the wellknown genetic algorithm non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II). Results show that the game theoretic approach presents a promising tool for solving multi-objective problems, since it produces similar non-dominated solutions as NSGA-II, indicating that competing objectives (or stakeholders in the game setting) can still produce Pareto optimal solutions. Most fascinating is that a range of non-dominated solutions is generated during the game, and almost all generated solutions are in the neighborhood of the Pareto set. This indicates that good solutions are generated very fast during the game.
High throughput biomaterials screening largely remains unexplored. The present study was an attempt to explore the area of high throughput as well as high content screening of cell surface topographic interaction. An ...
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(纸本)9781618390622
High throughput biomaterials screening largely remains unexplored. The present study was an attempt to explore the area of high throughput as well as high content screening of cell surface topographic interaction. An array of surface topographies called TopoChip was fabricated using a widely used polymer in tissue engineering, Poly (DL-lactic acid). The topographies were subsequently screened for their mitogenic effect on cells. We were able to detect topographic parameters responsible for mitogenic effect of surface topographies.
Monte Carlo simulation of the caffeine-DNA interaction in aqueous solution at room temperature was carried out using parallel calculations on supercomputer. Very large simulation boxes were used containing superhelica...
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Monte Carlo simulation of the caffeine-DNA interaction in aqueous solution at room temperature was carried out using parallel calculations on supercomputer. Very large simulation boxes were used containing superhelical B-DNA fragment surrounded by caffeine and water molecules. The most probable binding sites of caffeine molecules on the DNA surface as well as structural features of the respective caffeine-DNA complexes were revealed for several solutions' concentrations.
In this paper we define a many-valued semantics for hybrid logic and we give a sound and complete tableau system which is proof-theoretically well-behaved, in particular, it gives rise to a decision procedure for the ...
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Systems of polynomial equations over an algebraically-closed field K can be used to concisely model many combinatorial problems. In this way, a combinatorial problem is feasible (e.g., a graph is 3-colorable, hamilton...
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(纸本)9781595939043
Systems of polynomial equations over an algebraically-closed field K can be used to concisely model many combinatorial problems. In this way, a combinatorial problem is feasible (e.g., a graph is 3-colorable, hamiltonian, etc.) if and only if a related system of polynomial equations has a solution over K. In this paper, we investigate an algorithm aimed at proving combinatorial infeasibility based on the observed low degree of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz certificates for polynomial systems arising in combinatorics and on large-scale linear-algebra computations over K. We report on experiments based on the problem of proving the non-3-colorability of graphs. We successfully solved graph problem instances having thousands of nodes and tens of thousands of edges.
LC/MS is a successful analysis technique for the statistical analysis used in several branches of biology. It requires an intense screening and combination of the raw data, which is usually done with programs and libr...
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Y. WakasaY. YamamotoDept. of Applied Analysis and Complex Dynamical Systems
Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University Kyoto Japan. Yuji Wakasa was born in Okayama
Japan in 1968. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Kyoto university Japan in 1992 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to 1998 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Information Technology Okayama University. Since April 1998 he has been a Research Associate in the Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University. His current research interests include robust control and control system design via mathematical programming. Yutaka Yamamoto received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Kyoto University
Kyoto Japan in 1972 and 1974 respectively and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Florida in 1976 and 1978 respectively. From 1978 to 1987 he was with Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics Kyoto University and from 1987 to 1997 with Department of Applied System Science. Since 1998 he is a professor at the current position. His current research interests include realization and robust control of distributed parameter systems learning control sampled-data systems and digital signal processing. Dr. Yamamoto is a receipient of the Sawaragi memorial paper award (1985) the Outstanding Paper Award of SICE (1987) Best Author Award of SICE (1990) the George Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE CSS in 1996 Takeda Paper Prize of SICE in 1997. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He was an associate editor of Automatica. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Systems and Control Letters and Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems. He is a member of the IEEE the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) and the Institute of Systems Control and Information Engineers.
This paper presents a design method of control systems such that a designer can flexibly take account of tradeoffs between evaluated uncertainty ranges and the level of control performance. The problem is reduced to a...
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This paper presents a design method of control systems such that a designer can flexibly take account of tradeoffs between evaluated uncertainty ranges and the level of control performance. The problem is reduced to a BMI problem and approximately solved by LMIs. The convergence of the proposed approximation is proved in a modified sense. A numerical example shows the effectiveness of the proposed method in comparison with the standard robust control.
LC/MS is a successful analysis technique for the statistical analysis used in several branches of biology. It requires an intense screening and combination of the raw data, which is usually done with programs and libr...
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LC/MS is a successful analysis technique for the statistical analysis used in several branches of biology. It requires an intense screening and combination of the raw data, which is usually done with programs and libraries invoked by scripts in the domain-specific statistics language S or R. We show here how to model and implement this complex workflow in a service-oriented fashion, using the jABC service definition environment and jETI for remote service integration and execution.
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