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This paper investigates the use of Kinect depth sensors as well as inertial sensors in the context of beating heart surgery. In the past, various sensors have been used in attempts to track the beating heart, each with its own distinct set of advantages and disadvantages. With the availability of affordable structured-light depth sensors such as the Kinect and sufficiently small and low priced ...

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This paper provides exact probability results for waiting times associated with occurrences of two types of motifs in a random sequence. First, we provide an explicit expression for the probability generating function of the interarrival time between two clumps of a pattern. It allows, in particular, to measure the quality of the Poisson approximation which is currently used for evaluation of t...

Linear models have enjoyed great success in structured prediction in NLP. While a lot of progress has been made on efficient training with several loss functions, the problem of endowing learners with a mechanism for feature selection is still unsolved. Common approaches employ ad hoc filtering or L1regularization; both ignore the structure of the feature space, preventing practicioners from en...

KATAPAK-S is a type of structured catalytic packing, which is used in reactive distillation processes. The dry pressure drop characteristic (the pressure drop in the absence of liquid flow) is of significant importance for the investigation of process hydrodynamics. In this paper, the dry pressure drop within the catalyst packed channels of KATAPAK-S has been investigated using Computational Fl...