In ridge regression the estimation of the ridge parameter is an important issue. This paper generalizes some methods for estimating the ridge parameter for probit ridge regression (PRR) model based on the work of Kibria et al. (2011). The performance of these new estimators are judged by calculating the mean square error (MSE) using Monte Carlo simulations. In the design of the experiment we ch...

Fabrication, characterization and application of periodical ferroelectric domains in ridges and Ti in-diffused ridge waveguides on X- and Y-cut Lithium Niobate (LN) are reported. The ridge waveguides of 3.5 microm height and 9 microm width were fabricated by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) etching followed by Ti in-diffusion into the ridges only. Appropriate electrodes on their side walls enab...

Rong Yu,1,2 Shuai Dong,1,2,3 Cengiz Şen,4 Gonzalo Alvarez,5 and Elbio Dagotto1,2 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 32831, USA 3Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China 4D...

We report 230Th-238U disequilibrium data on mid-ocean ridge basalts recovered 5 to 40 kilometers off the ridge axis near 9 degrees 30'N of the East Pacific Rise. These data indicate near-symmetrical eruptions of normal mid-ocean ridge basalts (NMORBs) and incompatible element-enriched mid-ocean ridge basalts (EMORBs) as far as 20 kilometers off axis. Our results suggest large-scale subsurface l...

Unlike traditional minutiae-based fingerprint matching approach, which establishes the minutiae correspondence between two fingerprints, in this paper a novel ridge-based fingerprint matching algorithm, which establishes the exact ridge correspondence between two fingerprints is proposed. The ridge correspondence is called ‘exact’ because correspondences between points on ridges are also establ...

1 Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA 37996. 2 Georgia Institute of Technology, Renewable Bioproducts Institute and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, 30332, USA. 3 Joint Institute of Biological Sciences, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA 37831. 4 Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge Nati...

J. Engel, M. Bender, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, and R. Surman Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of North Carolina, CB 3255, Phillips Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Hoża 69, PL-00681, Warsaw, Poland Joint Institute for Heavy ...

In this paper an existing ridge detector based on the Hessian tensor and a new one based on the structure tensor are evaluated for use in portal/simulator imaging. Tensor smoothing is introduced as a scaling parameter. By changing this scale (as opposed to the image scale) the detectors can be tuned to suppress spurious ridges without moving them. Desirable ridge detector properties for portal/...

1 In-situ Observations of Lattice Parameter Fluctuations in Austenite and Transformation to Bainite S. S. Babu Formerly at Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA, Currently at Edison Welding Institute, Columbus, Ohio 43017, USA E. D. Specht and S. A. David Metals and Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA E. Karapetr...

P.-G. Reinhard, D.J. Dean, W. Nazarewicz, J. Dobaczewski, J.A. Maruhn, and M.R. Strayer Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Erlangen Staudtstr. 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 Physics Divis...