Seven di erent Japanese Yen interest rates recorded on a daily basis for the period from 1986 to 1992 are simultaneously analyzed. By introducing a new concept of \short term trend", we decompose each interest rate series into three components, \long term trend", \short term trend" and \irregular" by a two step lowess smoothing procedure. Furthermore, a multivariate autoregressive model (MAR) i...

BACKGROUND Growth is one of the most important indices in child health. The best and most effective way to investigate child health is measuring the physical growth indices such as weight, height and head circumference. Among these measures, weight growth is the simplest and the most effective way to determine child growth status. Weight trend at a given age is the result of cumulative growth e...

Abstract: We propose a new segmentation and grouping framework for road map inference from GPS traces. We first present a progressive Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Application with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm with an orientation constraint to partition the whole point set of the traces into clusters that represent road segments. A new point cluster grouping algorithm, according to the topolo...

In this paper we propose a shape-based approach in frequency domain to extract a shared key by exploiting the observation that wireless channel is reciprocal due to multi-path fading. Unlike the traditional quantization approach in time domain, no training sequences or predetermined pulses are needed to be transmitted in our approach. The correlated power spectral density of the transmitted pac...

MOTIVATION In cDNA microarray experiments all samples are labeled with either Cy3 or Cy5. Systematic and gene-specific dye bias effects have been observed in dual-color experiments. In contrast to systematic effects which can be corrected by a normalization method, the gene-specific dye bias is not completely suppressed and may alter the conclusions about the differentially expressed genes. M...