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In this paper we propose a non-linear block shrinkage
method in the wavelet domain for estimating an unknown function in
the presence of Gaussian noise. This shrinkage utilizes an
empirical Bayesian blocking approach that accounts for the
sparseness of the representation of the unknown function… |
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Background: Sequencing technologies applied to mammals' microbiomes have revolutionized our understanding of health and disease. Hence, to assess diseases' progression as well as therapies longterm effects, the impact of maladies and drugs on the gut-intestinal (GI) microbiome has to be evaluated.… |
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Changes in blood epigenetic age have been associated with several pathological conditions and have recently been described to anticipate cancer development. In this work, we analyze a publicly available leukocytes methylation dataset to evaluate the relation between DNA methylation age and the… |
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The reverse mortgage market has been expanding rapidly in developed economies in recent years. Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of funding for retirement income and health care costs. Increase in life expectancies and decrease in the real income at retirement continue to worry those… |
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This paper focuses on assessing the financial position of an insurer issuing a portfolio of Variable Annuities (VAs). Two multivariate models for the underlying and the interest rate are considered. The first model uses a single total rate of return for the basket of assets. The second one, jointly… |
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An extended Fitzhugh-Nagumo model including linear viscoelasticity is derived in general and studied in
detail in the one-dimensional case. The equations of the theory are numerically integrated in two situations: (i) a free insulated fiber activated by an initial Gaussian distribution of action… |
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Given a random sample drawn from a Multivariate Bernoulli Variable (MBV), we consider the problem of estimating the structure of the undirected graph for which the distribution is pairwise Markov and the parameters' vector of its exponential form. We propose a simple method that provides a closed… |
