introduction: in this paper, a novel complexity measure is proposed to detect dynamical changes in nonlinear systems using ordinal pattern analysis of time series data taken from the system. epilepsy is considered as a dynamical change in nonlinear and complex brain system. the ability of the proposed measure for characterizing the normal and epileptic eeg signals when the signal is short or is...

Let C be a conjugation class of permutations of a finite field Fq. We consider the function NCðqÞ defined as the number of permutations in C for which the associated permutation polynomial has degree 5q 2. In 1969, Wells proved a formula for N1⁄23 ðqÞ where 1⁄2k denotes the conjugation class of k-cycles. We will prove formulas for N1⁄2k ðqÞ where k 1⁄4 4; 5; 6 and for the classes of permutation...

Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) is an important method for basic and translational human neuroscience research. VLSM leverages modern neuroimaging analysis techniques to build on the classic approach of examining the relationship between location of brain damage and cognitive deficits. Testing an association between deficit severity and lesion status in each voxel involves very many i...

Independent vector analysis (IVA) is a recently proposed technique, an application of which is to solve the frequency domain blind source separation problem. Compared with the traditional complex-valued independent component analysis plus permutation correction approach, the largest advantage of IVA is that the permutation problem is directly addressed by IVA rather than resorting to the use of...

A Lagrangian relaxation network for graph matching is presented. The problem is formulated as follows: given graphs G and g, find a permutation matrix M that brings the two sets of vertices into correspondence. Permutation matrix constraints are formulated in the framework of deterministic annealing. Our approach is in the same spirit as a Lagrangian decomposition approach in that the row and c...

We show how to onstru t pseudo-random permutations that satisfy a ertain y le restri tion, for example that the permutation be y li ( onsisting of one y le ontaining all the elements) or an involution (a self-inverse permutation) with no xed points. The onstru tion an be based on any (unrestri ted) pseudo-random permutation. The resulting permutations are de ned su in tly and their evaluation a...