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CSB
2003
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Statistical Inference for Well-ordered Structures in Nucleotide Sequences
Distinct, local structures are frequently correlated with functional RNA elements involved in posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. Discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) su...
Shu-Yun Le, Jih-H. Chen, Jacob V. Maizel
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Duty-Cycle Optimization in Unslotted 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks
—We present a novel approach for minimizing the energy consumption of medium access control (MAC) protocols developed for duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSN) for the unslo...
Sinem Coleri Ergen, Carlo Fischione, Dimitri Maran...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Boundary Learning by Optimization with Topological Constraints
Recent studies have shown that machine learning can improve the accuracy of detecting object boundaries in images. In the standard approach, a boundary detector is trained by mini...
Viren Jain, Benjamin Bollmann, Bobby Kasthuri, Ken...
ARC
2007
Springer
140views Hardware» more  ARC 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Reconfigurable Computing for Accelerating Protein Folding Simulations
Abstract. This paper presents a methodology for the design of a reconfigurable computing system applied to a complex problem in molecular Biology: the protein folding problem. An e...
Nilton B. Armstrong, Heitor S. Lopes, Carlos R. Er...
WSC
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Analyzing transformation-based simulation metamodels
We present a technique for analyzing a simulation metamodel that has been constructed using a variancestabilizing transformation. To compute a valid confidence interval for the ex...
Maria de los A. Irizarry, Michael E. Kuhl, Emily K...