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CSB
2003
IEEE
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15 years 7 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 8 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 10 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 6 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
15 years 3 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...