During fusion of the mammalian secondary palate, it has been suggested that palatal medial edge epithelial (MEE) cells disappear by means of apoptosis, epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (EMT) and epithelial cell migration. However, it is widely believed that MEE cells never differentiate unless palatal shelves make contact and the midline epithelial seam is formed. In order to clarify the p...

In this paper, we propose a minimum-error entropy with self-adjusting step -size (MEE-SAS) as an alternative to the minimum-error entropy (MEE) algorithm for training adaptive systems. MEE-SAS has faster speed of convergence as compared to MEE algorithm for the same misadjustment. We attribute the self-adjusting step-size property of MEE-SAS to its changing curvature as opposed to MEE which has...

In this study, the free vibration analysis of smart vibration control (SVC) systems based on Reddy – Levinson model and modified strain gradient theory is developed. This system consist of a micro beam at middle and two magneto-electro-elastic (MEE) composite micro beams at top and bottom which connected by enclosing elastic medium and simulated by Winkler and Pasternak foundation. The effects ...

This study presents a thermal and economic performance analysis of a LT-MEE (low-temperature multieffect evaporation) water desalination system coupled with an LiBreH2O ABHP (absorption heat pump). A 60e78% water production increase over a stand-alone LT-MEE run at the same heat source conditions can be obtained owing to the coupling. A detailed thermodynamic sensitivity analysis of the ABHP-ME...

The relations between the effective Majorana mass of the electron neutrino, mee, responsible for neutrinoless double beta decay, and the neutrino oscillation parameters are considered. We show that for any specific oscillation pattern mee can take any value (from zero to the existing upper bound) for normal mass hierarchy and it can have a minimum for inverse hierarchy. This means that oscillat...

The purpose of this investigation was to describe, in a longitudinal prospective study, the acoustic-immittance profile during sessions with effusion and during sessions without effusion in children with recurrent middle-ear effusion (MEE). The static-acoustic middle-ear admittance, tympanometric width (TW), tympanometric peak pressure (TPP), and ipsilateral acoustic reflex (IAR) were evaluated...

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion is an important learning criterion in information theoretical learning (ITL). However, the MEE solution cannot be obtained in closed form even for a simple linear regression problem, and one has to search it, usually, in an iterative manner. The fixed-point iteration is an efficient way to solve the MEE solution. In this work, we study a fixed-point MEE...

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A FAMILY OF MINIMUM RENYI’S ERROR ENTROPY ALGORITHM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING By Seungju Han August 2007 Chair: Jose C. Principe Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering Adaptive systems are self-adjusting and seek the optimum in a co...

The purpose of this prospective investigation was to evaluate the sensitivity of pure-tone screening of children with middle-ear effusion (MEE) and to describe the short-term audiometric and otologic follow-up of children with MEE who pass versus fail a pure-tone screen. Eighty-two ears of 54 children with MEE based on pneumotoscopy/microtoscopy were investigated. A complete otolaryngologic eva...

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been successfully used in fields such as parameter estimation, system identification and the supervised machine learning. There is in general no explicit expression for the optimal MEE estimate unless some constraints on the conditional distribution are imposed. A recent paper has proved that if the conditional density is conditionally symmetric and...