There are many natural forcing notions adding real numbers, most notably the precursors of this class of forcing notions, namely Cohen and Random forcing. Whereas Random forcing has been deliberately constructed in connection with the σ–algebra of Lebesgue measurable sets and Cohen forcing is represented by the algebra of Borel sets modulo the σ–ideal of meager sets, the other classical forcing...

Disorders of the heart valves constitute a considerable health problem and often require surgical intervention. Recently various approaches were published seeking to overcome the shortcomings of current clinical practice,that still relies on manually performed measurements for performance assessment. Clinical decisions are still based on generic information from clinical guidelines and publicat...

This paper studies the distribution of the component spectrum of combinatorial structures such as uniform random forests, in which the classical generating function for the numbers of (irreducible) elements of the different sizes converges at the radius of convergence; here, this property is expressed in terms of the expectations of independent random variables Zj , j ≥ 1, whose joint distribut...

A modern operating room (OR) provides a plethora of advanced medical devices. In order to better facilitate the information offered by them, they need to automatically react to the intra-operative context. To this end, the progress of the surgical workflow must be detected and interpreted, so that the current status can be given in machine-readable form. In this work, Random Forests (RF) and Hi...

FOREWORD During the last fifteen years, Bolivia has carried out a broad program of structural reforms centered on achieving greater macroeconomic discipline and a more efficient and smaller state. Radical changes swept across the national political and economic landscape. All these reforms have had a decisive influence on the forestry sector. New laws and regulations affecting forest resources ...

Private companies backed by venture capitalists or private equity funds receive their funding in a series of rounds. Information about when each round occurred and which investors participated in each round has been compiled into different databases. Here we mine one such database to model how the private company will exit the VC/PE space. More specifically, we apply a random forest algorithm t...

An algorithm for the localization and counting of cells in histopathological images is presented. The algorithm relies on the presegmentation of an image into a number of superpixels followed by two random forests for classification. The first random forest determines if there are any cells in the superpixels at its input and the second random forest provides the number of cells in the respecti...

We consider growing random recursive trees in random environment, in which at each step a new vertex is attached according to a probability distribution that assigns the tree vertices masses proportional to their random weights. The main aim of the paper is to study the asymptotic behavior of the mean numbers of outgoing vertices as the number of steps tends to infinity, under the assumption th...

The aim of this study is to adapt and evaluate the effectiveness of a multi-temporal downscaled images technique for classifying the typical vegetation types of a reclaimed area. The areas reclaimed from estuarine tidal flats show high spatial heterogeneity in soil salinity conditions. There are three typical vegetation types for which the distribution is restricted by the soil conditions. A ha...