Mass spectrometry data are often corrupted by noise. It is very difficult to simultaneously detect low-abundance peaks and reduce false-positive peak detection caused by noise. In this paper, we propose to improve peak detection using an additional constraint: the consistent appearance of similar true peaks across multiple spectra. We observe that false -positive peaks in general do not repeat ...

Sequences with low aperiodic autocorrelation and crosscorrelation are used in communications remote sensing. Golay Shapiro independently devised a recursive construction that produces families of complementary pairs binary sequences. In the simplest case, Rudin–Shapiro sequences, general it what we call Golay–Rudin–Shapiro Calculations by Littlewood show sequences have mean square autocorrelati...

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A promising usage of Flash SSDs in a DBMS is to use it to extend the main memory buffer pool by caching in the SSD selected pages that are evicted from the buffer pool. These schemes have been shown to produce big performance gains in the steady state. Simple methods for using the SSD buffer pool throw away the data in the SSD when the system is restarted (either when recovering from a crash or...

A central issue in complex networks is tolerance of random failures and intentional attacks. Current literature emphasizes the dichotomy between networks with a power-law node connectivity distribution, which are robust to random failures but fragile to targeted attacks, versus networks with an exponentially decaying connectivity distribution, which are less tolerant to failures but more resili...

We derive the peak luminosity–peak energy (Liso–Epeak) correlation using 22 long Gamma– Ray Bursts (GRBs) with firm redshift measurements. We find that its slope is similar to the correlation between the time integrated isotropic emitted energy Eiso and Epeak (Amati et al. 2002). For the 15 GRBs in our sample with estimated jet opening angle we compute the collimation corrected peak luminosity ...

BACKGROUND Exercise capacity assessed by cardiopulmonary exercise testing is usually measured by peak oxygen consumption (VO2). However, not uncommonly, patients achieve a relatively higher work load (peak work) compared to their peak VO2. In these situations it is difficult to know which parameter to use in assessing exercise capacity. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there a...