The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is slowly becoming a very popular piece of hardware used in different universities and research labs across the world. It is inexpensive, which attracts a lot of attention, along with its variety of applications and capabilities. The USRP connects...

The accumulation of secretions in the airways of ventilator-dependent patients is a common problem, and if not detected and treated in due time, it greatly increases the risk of infections and asynchrony. Unfortunately, cardiogenic oscillation modifies the flow signal shape that can confuse...

Since commercial banks play important roles in the financial markets, it is important to evaluate whether banks operate efficiently. Moreover, given increased competition from non-bank financial institutions, commercial banks should operate more efficiently than they did previously. Commercial...

This dissertation establishes a novel system for human face learning and recognition based on incremental multilinear Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Most of the existing face recognition systems need training data during the learning process. The system as proposed in this dissertation...

The notion of "relativistic finance" became ingrained in the public imagination and has been asserted in many mass-media reports. However, despite an observed drive of the most reputable Wall Street firms to establish their servers ever closer to the trading hubs, there is surprisingly little...

Neutron scanning techniques are becoming important tools in the search for chemical agents, explosives, drugs, nuclear material and other hazardous materials in government buildings, airports, military installations or public areas. Each nucleus when excited emits quanta of gamma radiation at...

This paper introduces a model-free decomposition of S&P 500 forward market index returns in terms of realized and implied dispersion, downside, and tail risk using option portfolios. The decomposition lends itself by construction to learn about the different sources of risk in the market return,...