Role of Structural Morphology in Urban Heat Islands at Night TimeWe study the dependence of the intensity of the urban heat island (UHI) on urban geometry. UHI is a urban climate phenomenon referring to the air temperature difference between rural and urban areas.…J. M. Sobstyl, T. Emig, M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi et al.·May 1, 2017SaveLearn
Data Based Identification and Prediction of Nonlinear and Complex Dynamical SystemsThe problem of reconstructing nonlinear and complex dynamical systems from measured data or time series is central to many scientific disciplines including physical, biological, computer, and social…Wenxu Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, Celso Grebogi·Apr 27, 2017SaveLearn
Recurrence network measures for hypothesis testing using surrogate data: application to black hole light curvesRecurrence networks and the associated statistical measures have become important tools in the analysis of time series data. In this work, we test how effective the recurrence network measures are in…Rinku Jacob, K. P. Harikrishnan, R. Misra et al.·Apr 26, 2017SaveLearn
Surrogate-based artifact removal from single-channel EEGThe recent emergence and success of electroencephalography (EEG) in low-cost portable devices, has opened the door to a new generation of applications processing a small number of EEG channels for…Mario Chavez, Fanny Grosselin, Aurore Bussalb et al.·Apr 25, 2017SaveLearn
Mapping and discrimination of networks in the complexity-entropy planeComplex networks are usually characterized in terms of their topological, spatial, or information-theoretic properties and combinations of the associated metrics are used to discriminate networks…Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths et al.·Apr 25, 2017SaveLearn
Improvement of PolSAR Decomposition Scattering Powers Using a Relative Decorrelation MeasureIn this letter, a methodology is proposed to improve the scattering powers obtained from model-based decomposition using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data. The novelty of this…D. Ratha, M. Surendar, A. Bhattacharya·Apr 20, 2017SaveLearn
PAFit: an R Package for the Non-Parametric Estimation of Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Temporal Complex NetworksMany real-world systems are profitably described as complex networks that grow over time. Preferential attachment and node fitness are two simple growth mechanisms that not only explain certain…Thong Pham, Paul Sheridan, Hidetoshi Shimodaira·Apr 20, 2017SaveLearn
Combining parameter values or p-valuesWe review the methods to combine several measurements, in the form of parameter values or p-values.Louis Lyons, Emilien Chapon·Apr 18, 2017SaveLearn
The ITS-90 after definition of neon isotopic reference composition. Extent of the isotopic effect on previous inter-comparison resultsStarting from the end of the past century, the importance has been recognized of the effect of isotopic composition on some of the temperature fixed points for the most accurate realizations of the…Franco Pavese, Anna Szmyrka-Grzebyk, Peter P. M. Steur·Apr 16, 2017SaveLearn
Records in Fractal Stochastic ProcessesThe records statistics in stationary and non-stationary fractal time series is studied extensively. By calculating various concepts in record dynamics, we find some interesting results. In stationary…A. Aliakbari, P. Manshour, M. J. Salehi·Apr 14, 2017SaveLearn
Statistical properties of interaction parameter estimates in direct coupling analysisWe consider the statistical properties of interaction parameter estimates obtained by the direct coupling analysis (DCA) approach to learning interactions from large data sets. Assuming that the data…Yingying Xu, Erik Aurell, Jukka Corander et al.·Apr 5, 2017SaveLearn
Monitoring crystal breakage in wet milling processes using inline imaging and chord length distribution measurementsThe success of the various secondary operations involved in the production of particulate products depends on the production of particles with a desired size and shape from a previous primary…Okpeafoh S. Agimelen, Vaclav Svoboda, Bilal Ahmed et al.·Mar 27, 2017SaveLearn
Real-space analysis of scanning tunneling microscopy topography datasets using sparse modeling approachA sparse modeling approach is proposed for analyzing scanning tunneling microscopy topography data, which contains numerous peaks corresponding to surface atoms. The method, based on the relevance…Masamichi J. Miyama, Koji Hukushima·Mar 25, 2017SaveLearn
Decomposition of conditional probability for high-order symbolic Markov chainsThe main goal of the paper is to develop an estimate for the conditional probability function of random stationary ergodic symbolic sequences with elements belonging to a finite alphabet. We…S. S. Melnik, O. V. Usatenko·Mar 22, 2017SaveLearn
TWOPEG: An Event Generator for Charged Double Pion Electroproduction off ProtonThe new event generator TWOPEG for the channel e p → e' p' π+ π- has been developed. It uses an advanced method of event generation with weights and employs the five-fold…Iu. Skorodumina, G. V. Fedotov, V. D. Burkert et al.·Mar 21, 2017SaveLearn
Non-scaling displacement distributions as may be seen in fluorescence correlation spectroscopyA continuous time random walk (CTRW) model with waiting times following the Levy-stable distribution with exponential cut-off in equilibrium is a simple theoretical model giving rise to normal, yet…S. M. J. Khadem, I. M. Sokolov·Mar 21, 2017SaveLearn
Recovery of the starting times of delayed signalsWe present a new method to locate the starting points in time of an arbitrary number of (damped) delayed signals. For a finite data sequence, the method permits to first locate the starting point of…Luca Perotti, Daniel Vrinceanu, Daniel Bessis·Mar 20, 2017SaveLearn
The Onsager--Machlup functional for data assimilationWhen taking the model error into account in data assimilation, one needs to evaluate the prior distribution represented by the Onsager--Machlup functional. Through numerical experiments, this study…Nozomi Sugiura·Mar 20, 2017SaveLearn
Entropy-based Time-Varying Window Width Selection for Nonlinear type Time-Frequency AnalysisWe propose a time-varying optimal window width (TVOWW) selection scheme to optimize the performance of several nonlinear-type time-frequency analyses, including the reassignment method, and the…Yae-lin Sheu, Liang-Yan Hsu, Pi-Tai Chou et al.·Mar 20, 2017SaveLearn
qGaussian: Tools to Explore Applications of Tsallis Statisticsq-Gaussian distribution appear in many science areas where we can find systems that could be described within a nonextensive framework. Usually, a way to assert that these systems belongs to…Wagner S. de Lima, Emerson L. de Santa Helena·Mar 17, 2017SaveLearn
From physical linear systems to discrete-time series. A guide for analysis of the sampled experimental dataModelling physical data with linear discrete time series, namely Fractionally Integrated Autoregressive Moving Average (ARFIMA), is a technique which achieved attention in recent years. However,…Jakub Ślęzak, Aleksander Weron·Mar 17, 2017SaveLearn
Phase response function for oscillators with strong forcing or couplingPhase response curve (PRC) is an extremely useful tool for studying the response of oscillatory systems, e.g. neurons, to sparse or weak stimulation. Here we develop a framework for studying the…Vladimir Klinshov, Serhiy Yanchuk, Artur Stephan et al.·Mar 15, 2017SaveLearn
Quantification of scaling exponent with crossover type phenomena for different types of forcing in DC glow discharge plasmaWe have carried out a detailed study of scaling region using detrended fractal analysis test by applying different forcing likewise noise, sinusoidal, square on the floating potential fluctuations…Debajyoti Saha, Pankaj Kumar Shaw, Sabuj Ghosh et al.·Mar 15, 2017SaveLearn
Pomelo, a tool for computing Generic Set Voronoi Diagrams of Aspherical Particles of Arbitrary ShapeWe describe the development of a new software tool, called "Pomelo", for the calculation of Set Voronoi diagrams. Voronoi diagrams are a spatial partition of the space around the particles…Simon Weis, Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer, Fabian M. Schaller et al.·Mar 10, 2017SaveLearn
Robust Wrapping-free Phase Retrieval Method Based on Weighted Least-square MethodFor many profilometry techniques, phase unwrapping is one of the most challenging process. In order to sidestep the phase unwrapping process, Perciante et. al [Appl Opt 2015; 54(10):3018-23] proposed…Minmin Wang, Canlin Zhou, Shuchun Si et al.·Mar 4, 2017SaveLearn