Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) gained lost of attention due to LargeScale Machine Learning demands. • Classic (70’s) and flexible, Survey paper: (Boyd 2009) • Applications: compressed sensing (Yang & Zhang, 2011), image restoration (Goldstein & Osher, 2009), video processing and matrix completion (Goldfarb et al., 2010) • Recent variations: Linearized (Goldfarb et al., 2010;...

Applications of copulas are too numerous to list. Some recent applications have been: simulation of multivariate sea storms (Corbella and Stretch, 2013); dependence structure between the stock and foreign exchange markets (Wang et al., 2013); operational risk management (Arbenz, 2013); portfolio optimization in the presence of dependent financial returns with long memory (Boubaker and Sghaier, ...

Investigating nozzle’s orifice flow is challenging both experimentally and theoretically. This paper focuses on simulating flow inside diesel injector nozzle via Ansys fluent v15. Validation is performed with experimental results from Winkhofler et al (2001). Several important parameters such as mass flow rate, velocity profiles and pressure profiles are used for this validation. Results includ...

C-Reactive Protein and Cardiovascular Disease: Differences Between Humans and Mice To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Zhang et al.1 Zhang et al1 concluded that the results from their study revealed that C-reactive protein may act not only as an inflammation marker but also as a mediator factor in hypertensive cardiac remodeling. The study by Zhang et al1 was done i...

Images: We take advantage of abstract images pioneered by Zitnick et al. [38], which have received wide interest in computer vision for studying high-level vision tasks. Chandrasekaran et al. [7] use abstract images to detect visual humor. Zhang et al. [36] explore binary questionanswering in abstract scenes, and Fouhey et al. [12] learn to predict object dynamics in clip art. While these appro...

Biometrics plays an increasingly important role in authentication and identification systems. The process of biometric recognition allows the identification of individuals based on the physical or behavioral characteristics. Among the most common biometric features used are fingerprint, iris, face, voice, signature and hand. Hand based biometric systems exhibit many desirable characteristics wh...

Traffic matrix reflects the volume of traffic that flows between all pairs of sources and destinations in a network. Its element is referred to as an Origin-Destination (OD) pair (or flow). And traffic matrix gives network operators a global aspect of how all the traffic in a large-scale network flows. Thus, with traffic matrix as a key input of traffic engineering and network management, it is...

We systematically study the growth kinetics and the critical surface dynamics of cell monolayers by a class of computationally efficient cellular automaton models avoiding lattice artifacts. Our numerically derived front velocity relationship indicates the limitations of the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskounov equation for tumor growth simulations. The critical surface dynamics corresponds t...

Heterosis, one of the most important biological phenomena, refers to the phenotypic superiority of a hybrid over its genetically diverse parents with respect to many traits such as biomass, growth rate and yield. Despite its successful application in breeding and agronomic production of many crop and animal varieties, the molecular basis of heterosis remains elusive. The classic genetic explana...