In order to parameterize horizontal soil fluxes produced by wind over tillage ridges, eight-ridge configurations composed of sandy soil and exhibiting ridge heights to ridge spacing (RH/RS) ratios ranging from 0.18 to 0.38 were experimented in a wind tunnel. These experiments are used to develop a parameterization of the horizontal fluxes over tillage ridged surfaces based only on the geometric...

OBJECTIVES To define the mode of inheritance of the dorsal ridge and investigate if the ridge predisposes to the congenital abnormality dermoid sinus in the Rhodesian ridgeback. METHODS Segregation analysis was performed, including 87 litters (n=803) produced in Sweden between 1981 and 2002. Data were corrected to avoid bias in the segregation ratio. Chi-squared analysis was performed includi...

This paper considers optimization of the ridge parameters in generalized ridge regression (GRR) by minimizing a model selection criterion. GRR has a major advantage over ridge regression (RR) in that a solution to the minimization problem for one model selection criterion, i.e., Mallows’ Cp criterion, can be obtained explicitly with GRR, but such a solution for any model selection criteria, e.g...

We present a fingerprint matching scheme that utilizes a ridge feature map to match fingerprint images. The technique described here obviates the need for extracting minutiae points to match fingerprint images. The proposed scheme uses a set of 16 Gabor filters, whose spatial frequencies correspond to the average inter-ridge spacing in fingerprints, is used to capture the ridge strength at equa...

This case report is focused on the possibility of treating atrophic ridge with a reduced number of surgical procedures and a reduced healing time. A 43-year-old female patient affected by edentulism associated with horizontal resorption of the ridge was treated by means of a sagittal osteotomy and expansion of the ridge with the new modified edentulous ridge expansion (MERE) technique to obtain...

In estimation of the large precision matrix, this paper suggests a new shrinkage estimator, called the linear ridge estimator. This estimator is motivated from a Bayesian aspect for a spike and slab prior distribution of the precision matrix, and has a form of convex combination of the ridge estimator and the identity matrix multiplied by scalar. The optimal parameters in the linear ridge estim...

We propose a parameter shrinkage adaptation framework to estimate models with only a limited set of adaptation data to improve accuracy for automatic speech recognition, by regularizing an objective function with a sum of parameterwise power q constraint. For the first attempt, we formulate ridge maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) and ridge constraint MLLR (CMLLR) with an element-wise ...

We study the problem of online regression. We do not make any assumptions about input vectors or outcomes. We prove a theoretical bound on the square loss of Ridge Regression. We also show that Bayesian Ridge Regression can be thought of as an online algorithm competing with all the Gaussian linear experts. We then consider the case of infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces and prove relative loss...

T.-H. Kim,1 R. Jin,2 L. R. Walker,3 J. Y. Howe,3 M. H. Pan,1 J. F. Wendelken,1 J. R. Thompson,3,4 A. S. Sefat,3 M. A. McGuire,3 B. C. Sales,3 D. Mandrus,3 and A. P. Li1,4,* 1Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 2Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA 3Materials Science an...

A fingerprint recognizing system is built with two principal components: the fingerprint administrator and the fingerprint recognizer. Fingerprints are identified by their special features such as ridge endings, ridge bifurcation, short ridges, and ridge enclosures, which are collectively called the minutiae. It explains the finger print characteristics that are used to identify individuals and...