Shape matching plays a prominent role in the analysis of medical and biological structures. Recently, a unifying framework was introduced for shape matching that uses mixture-models to couple both the shape representation and deformation. Essentially, shape distances were defined as geodesics induced by the Fisher-Rao metric on the manifold of mixture-model represented shapes. A fundamental dra...

Vol. XLVIII (February 2011), 157 –171 *Jungkeun Kim is Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (e-mail: [email protected]). Raghunath Singh Rao is Assistant Professor of Marketing, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin (e-mail: Raghunath.Rao@mccombs. utexas.edu). Kyeongheui Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Department of Manag...

The concept of an inverse of a singular matrix seems to have been first introduced by Moore [1], [2] in 1920. Extensions of these ideas to general operators have been made by Tseng [3], [4], [5], but no systematic study of the subject was made until 1955 when Penrose [6], [7], unaware of the earlier work, redefined the Moore inverse in a slightly different way. About the same time one of the au...

In this paper, a modified Rao-2 (MRao-2) algorithm is proposed to solve the problem of optimal power flow (OPF) in system incorporating renewable energy sources (RES). Quasi-oppositional and Levy flight methods are used improve performance Rao algorithm. To demonstrate effectiveness MRao-2 technique, it tested on two standard test systems: an IEEE 30-bus 118-bus system. The objective function O...

This paper compares the performance of several tests for stochastic dominance up to order three using Monte Carlo methods. The tests considered are the Davidson and Duclos (2000) test, the Anderson test (1996) and the Kaur, Rao and Singh (1994) test. Only unpaired samples of independent observations are considered, as this is a restriction for both the Anderson and Kaur-Rao-Singh tests. We find...

The aim was to detect the presence of polymorphisms at exons 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Spi2 gene, and evaluate a possible association between them and recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) or inflammatory airway disease (IAD) in thoroughbred horses, through single-strand conformational-polymorphism (SSCP) screening. Although polymorphism was not detected in exons 1, 2 and 3, three alleles and six genot...

At the outset, I would like to express my deep gratitude to the distinguished membership of the Indian Psychiatric Society for giving me an opportunity to deliver Dr D L N Murthy Rao Oration. Dr Murthy Rao was one of the foremost psychiatrist in our country and as a Professor and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore, he not only trained many eminent ...