Normalized difference vegetation index and land surface temperature data, in a sample plot each from east, center and west of Nepal, from 2000 to 2015, were analyzed to identify and compare the trends of vegetation and temperature changes during the period. The data were obtained from moderate resolutions imaging spectro-radiometer. Normalized difference vegetation index charactiszes a resoluti...

During atrial fibrillation (AF), the atrioventricular (AV) node is continuously bombarded with atrial impulses. The AV nodal properties, and in particular the refractoriness, play an important role in determining the ventricular response during AF. Therefore, it is very useful to determine the refractory period of the AV node non-invasively. The lower envelope of the Poincarè plot (a plot repre...

Animal venoms and toxins are a valuable source of bioactive peptides with pharmacologic relevance as potential drug leads. A large subset of biologically active peptides discovered up till now contain disulfide bridges that enhance stability and activity. To discover new members of this class of peptides, we developed a workflow screening specifically for those peptides that contain inter- and ...

Re-analysis of publicly available datasets Lucia Peixoto, Davide Risso, Shane G. Poplawski, Mathieu, E. Wimmer, Terence P. Speed, Marcelo A. Wood and Ted Abel We retrieved the pre-processed data of several publicly available studies from GEO (see main text for details). In this Section, we plot the PCA of each dataset using the original normalization. Starting from the data as normalized by the...

The main empirical motivation of using Lévy processes in finance comes from fitting asset return distributions. Consider the daily (either continuous or simple) returns of S&P 500 index (SPX) from Jan 2, 1980 to Dec 31, 2005. We plot the histogram of normalized (mean zero and variance one) daily simple returns in Figure 1, along with the standard normal density function. The max and min (which ...

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Clustering is an important data exploration task. A prominent clustering algorithm is agglomerative hierarchical clustering. Roughly, in each iteration, it merges the closest pair of clusters. It was rst proposed way back in 1951, and since then there have been numerous mod-iications. Some of its good features are: a natural, simple, and non-parametric grouping of similar objects which is capab...

Multiple-breath washout (MBW) tests, with end-expiratory lung volume at functional residual capacity (FRC) and 90% O(2), 5% He, and 5% SF(6) as an inspired gas mixture, were performed in healthy volunteers in supine and prone postures. The semilog plot of MBW N(2) concentrations was evaluated in terms of its curvilinearity. The MBW N(2) normalized slope analysis yielded indexes of acinar and co...