Several goodness-of-fit tests of a lifetime distribution have been suggested in the literature; many take into account censoring and/or truncation of event times. In some contexts, a goodness-of-fit test for the truncation distribution is of interest. In particular, better estimates of the lifetime distribution can be obtained when knowledge of the truncation law is exploited. In cross-sectiona...

Difference representations on curvilinear coordinate systems are constructed by first transforming derivatives with respect to cartesian coordinates into expressions involving derivatives with respect to the curvilinear coordinates (the metric coefficients). The derivatives with respect to the curvilinear coordinates are then replaced with difference expressions on the uniform grid in the trans...

A modification of the Balanced Stoc1insiti.c Truncation method fqr relative error model reduction is introduced. The method is based on replac~ng the truncat~on step w ~ t h a generalized s~iigular pertmbat~on approxlmatlon. The new method is shown to satisfy an infinity norm bound on the relative error between the full order and the reduced order models. The discrete time balaiiced stochastic ...

A new type of attack on Message Authentication Codes (MACs) is introduced which takes advantage of possible weaknesses in interfaces to hardware security modules. In particular, if a module does not fix the degree of MAC truncation employed, then potentially serious attacks are possible.

UNLABELLED We studied the bias and variance characteristics of the ordered-subset expectation maximization (OSEM) and rescaled block-iterative EM (RBIEM) iterative reconstruction algorithms in myocardial SPECT under extreme, but realistic, conditions. METHOD We used the 2-dimensional mathematic cardiac torso phantom to simulate 2 patient anatomies: a large male with a raised diaphragm and a f...

The mechanism of low-affinity NGF receptor (LNGFR) truncation was investigated in cultured Schwann cells. Affinity labeling of Schwann cells with 125I-NGF or metabolic labeling with 35S-cysteine showed that truncated NGF receptor (NGF-Rt) was derived from the cell surface form of the receptor. Addition of full-length, exogenous NGF receptor (M(r) = 80 kDa) to Schwann cell membranes resulted in ...

The Block Truncation Coding (BTC) is one of the lossy image compression algorithms. In this paper, we have proposed a method called the Improved Adaptive Block Truncation Coding (IABTC) based on Adaptive Block Truncation Coding (ABTC). The feature of inter-pixel redundancy is exploited to reduce the bit-rate further by retaining the quality of the reconstructed images. The proposed method outpe...

Block Truncation Coding is an image compression technique which is used globally in many online as well as offline graphical applications e.g. LCD overdrive etc. In this literature survey we will discuss many variants of Block Truncation coding and latest metamorphosed techniques which are introduced recently. These techniques are analyzed behalf on objective and subjective point of view. In th...

Model order reduction methods for linear time invariant systems are reviewed in this lecture. The basic ideas of the methods, such as the Padé approximation method, the rational interpolation method, the modal truncation method, the standard balanced truncation method, and the balancing related methods, are presented. The numerical algorithms of implementing the methods are discussed. For the b...