We present a new method for protein structure comparison that combines indexing and dynamic programming (DP). The method is based on simple geometric features of triplets of secondary structures of proteins. These features provide indexes to a hash table that allows fast retrieval of similarity information for a query protein. After the query protein is matched with all proteins in the hash tab...

Internation comparisons of average national incomes omit important information about leisure, home production, health, etc. They are also bedevilled by index number problems. This paper suggests ways of combining working hours and life-expectancy with income comparisons, and shows that the fixed-price indexes of real income, such as those in the Penn World Table, substantially understate the in...

The approach of using a random matrix for extended object and group target tracking (EOT and GTT) is efficient. Designing and effectively applying this approach rely on modeling the extended object and group targets accurately. To describe complex dynamical variation and practical observation distortion of the extension in size, shape and orientation, two random matrix based models are proposed...

MP3 is the most widely used audio format nowadays in our daily life and music on the internet are often of this format. In order to seek commercial benefit, low bit rate MP3 audios are usually transcoded to high bit rate, resulting in fake-quality MP3 audios. Through analyzing the frequency statistics of Huffman table indexes, a method for detecting such fake-quality MP3 audios is presented in ...

Internation comparisons of average national incomes omit important information about leisure, home production, health, etc. They are also bedevilled by index number problems. This paper suggests ways of combining working hours and life-expectancy with income comparisons, and shows that the fixed-price indexes of real income, such as those in the Penn World Table, substantially understate the in...

Many large-scale key-value storage systems sacrifice features like secondary indexing and/or consistency in favor of scalability or performance. This limits the ease and efficiency of application development on such systems. Implementing secondary indexing in a large-scale memory based system is challenging because the goals for low latency, high scalability, consistency and high availability o...

The goals of this study were to find the average intracranial capacity of the living male-entities of Kosovo Albanian population, to define cephalofacial indexes and their interrelations with intracranial capacity and to explore their latent structure. Eight cephalofacial variables have been measured in 571 male entities of the Kosovo Albanian population, aged 18-35 years old. Of these measurem...

Abstract We examine the effects of postulated metric on measurement well-being, by comparing, in (income, lifetime) space, two indexes: equivalent income index and lifetime index. The conditions under which exists are more restrictive than ones exists, but it is possible to define an alternative index, based reference levels, for non-existence problem less acute. Those indexes also shown satisf...