Approximation of stationary strongly mixing processes by SCOT models and the Le CamHajek-Ibragimov-Khasminsky locally minimax theory of statistical inference for them is outlined. SCOT is an m-Markov model with sparse memory structure. In our previous papers we proved SCOT equivalence to 1-MC with state space—alphabet consisting of the SCOT contexts. For the fixed alphabet size and growing samp...

The current study comprising molecular identification of the mutagenic effects gamma rays and sodium azide on Catharanthus roseus using scot markers took place at Department Biology, University Kufa, Iraq. seeds two cultivars, i.e., ‘victory carmine’ a local variety (pink variety) L (carmine var.) received irradiation with doses (50 Gray 75 Gray). Afterward, these got soaked in four concentrati...

Analysis of brain connectivity has become an important research tool in neuroscience. Connectivity can be estimated between cortical sources reconstructed from the electroencephalogram (EEG). Such analysis often relies on trial averaging to obtain reliable results. However, some applications such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) require single-trial estimation methods. In this paper, we pres...

The Stochastic Context Tree (SCOT) is a useful tool for studying infinite random sequences generated by an m-Markov Chain (m-MC). It captures the phenomenon that the probability distribution of the next state sometimes depends on less than m of the preceding states. This allows compressing the information needed to describe an m-MC. The SCOT construction has been earlier used under various name...

SCoT is a tutorial dialogue system that engages students in natural language discussions through a speech interface. The current instantiation, SCoT-DC, is applied to the domain of shipboard damage control—the task of containing the effects of crises (e.g. fires) that occur aboard Navy vessels. This paper describes a recent evaluation of SCoT-DC and presents preliminary results showing: (1) the...

Twenty-four start codon targeted (SCoT) markers were used to assess genetic diversity and population structure of indigenous, introduced and domesticated ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaudich.). A total of 155 genotypes from five populations were investigated for SCoT polymorphism, which produced 136 amplicons with 87.5% polymorphism. Polymorphism information content and resolving power of the SCoT...

Type II thioesterases were shown to maintain efficiency of modular type I polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases by removing acyl residues blocking extension modules. We found that thioesterase ScoT from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is required for the production of the yellow-pigmented coelimycin by the modular polyketide synthase Cpk. No production of coelimycin was observ...

We consider the problem of securely computing the Greater Than (GT) predicate and its generalization – securely determining membership in a union of intervals. We approach these problems from the point of view of Q-Conditional Oblivious Transfer (Q-COT), introduced by Di Crescenzo, Ostrovsky and Rajagopalan [4]. Q-COT is an oblivious transfer that occurs iff predicate Q evaluates to true on the...

We modeled and applied Stochastic COntext Tree (SCOT) for statistical inference about financial, literary and seismological stationary strings. We analyzed several models viewed as simplified approaches to financial modeling: evaluate their stationary distribution, entropy rate and convergence to the Brownian motion. We also estimated the SCOT parameters and tested homogeneity of data strings u...