Functional connectivity analysis yields powerful insights into our understanding of the human brain. Group-wise functional community detection aims to partition the brain into clusters, or communities, in which functional activity is inter-regionally correlated in a common manner across a group of subjects. In this article, we show how to use multiple-view spectral clustering to perform group-w...

Power generation reserves play a central role for maintaining the balance of generation and consumption. Reserves, scheduled in advance, compensate for forecast error, variability and transmission losses. However, as reserves are a costly commodity, their amount should be carefully assessed to prevent unnecessary expense. Currently, the quantity of required reserves are determined based upon a ...

Hospital diagnostic facilities, such as magnetic resonance imaging centers, typically provide service to several diverse patient groups: outpatients, who are scheduled in advance; inpatients, whose demands are generated randomly during the day; and emergency patients, who must be served as soon as possible. Our analysis focuses on two inter-related tasks: designing the outpatient appointment sc...

This is an advanced course on the study of innovation and entrepreneurship in economic science. We will focus especially on the role of competition and market structure, on the history of technology, on intellectual property, and on incentives for innovation. We will rely on analytical models as well as less formal reasoning. Depending on the topic covered, class will be a combination of lectur...

In this paper, we study the dependence of the unique positive solution of the periodic boundary value problem u00 þ qu 1⁄4 wðtÞu; 0 < s < 1 and q – 0; uð0Þ 1⁄4 uð1Þ; u0ð0Þ 1⁄4 u0ð1Þ on the parameter q as q ? 0. We show that this solution u(t;q) is infinitely differentiable in q and has singularity in the order of q a with a = 2/(1 s) as q ? 0. Furthermore, the graph of u(t;q) has fluctuation in...

osting by E Abstract A production process whose performance deteriorates over time is studied in this paper. It is assumed that the process performance can be measured in terms of the proportion of good units of end items produced. Using the pontryagin principle, the optimal scheduled production rate and preventive maintenance rate will be derived as a function of both production rate and propo...

A class of integral equations Rh = f basic in estimation theory is introduced. The description of the range of the operator R is given. The operator R is a positive rational function of a selfadjoint elliptic operator L. This operator is defined in the whole space R, it has a kernel R(x, y), and Rh := R D R(x, y)h(y)dy, where D ⊂ R is a bounded domain with a sufficiently smooth boundary S. Exam...

SLQAL (Waseda University Sakai Laboratory QALab team) participated in Phase-1 and Phase-3 of the NTCIR-12 QALab-2 Japanese subtask. This paper briefly describes our approaches. Our runs scored 25 points in Phase 1 and 35 points in Phase 3. An initial failure analysis shows that our system performs particularly poorly for Type-T questions as well as questions that require time expression process...

An ab-initio numerical study of the density-dependent, evolutionary stable dispersal strategy is presented. The simulations are based on a simple discretei generation island model with four processes: reproduction, dispersal, competition and local catastrophe. We do not impose any a priori constraints on the dispersal schedule, allowing the entire schedule to evolve. We find that the system con...

The present theoretical knowledge about photons and hard photoproduction processes, i.e. the production of jets, light and heavy hadrons, quarkonia, and prompt photons in photon-photon and photon-hadron collisions, is reviewed. Virtual and polarized photons and prompt photon production in hadron collisions are also discussed. The most important leading and next-to-leading order QCD results are ...