2 March 2021
Background: Although caregivers are a crucial support in the recovery of patients with schizophrenia, little is known about how mutuality is related to health-related quality of life within the dyadic (patient and caregiver) context. This study aimed...
“A Bosom Friend,” Chapter 10 of Moby-Dick, concludes with a literary travesty on the Golden Rule, a norm of obligation to others as to self. If God’s will is that we treat our neighbors as ourselves, and if the narrator, Ishmael, de...
Background/Objectives: Multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) are highly prevalent among older adults and require effective collaboration between the patient and caregiver. Mutuality, reflecting the quality of the dyadic relationship, is associated with...
Background: Although nurses’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is critical for mitigating the growing intention to leave the profession, the association between nurse–patient mutuality and nurses’ HRQoL remains unexplored. Ther...
Mutual information is one of the essential building blocks of information theory. It is however only finitely defined for distributions in a subclass of the general class of all distributions on a joint alphabet. The unboundedness of mutual informati...
Over the last six decades, the representation of error exponent functions for data transmission through noisy channels at rates below capacity has seen three distinct approaches: (1) Through Gallager’s
The order book is a list of all current buy or sell orders for a given financial security. The rise of electronic stock exchanges introduced a debate about the relevance of the information it encapsulates of the activity of traders. Here, we approach...
The main aim of this contribution is to define the notions of Kullback-Leibler divergence and conditional mutual information in fuzzy probability spaces and to derive the basic properties of the suggested measures. In particular, chain rules for mutu...
Multi-coil WPT systems require mutual inductance information between coils to increase the power transmission efficiency. However, in the high frequency (HF) bands such as 6.78 MHz and 13.56 MHz, the presence of surrounding coils changes the value of...
Given that sustainable investing constitutes a major force across global financial markets, in 2016 Morningstar began reporting Morningstar Sustainability scores. We used the 2016, 2017 and 2018 scores to study the effects of socially responsible inv...
We present and generalize the basic ideas underlying recent work aimed at the construction of mutually unbiased bases in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces with the help of group and graph theoretical concepts. In this approach finite groups are used...
For almost forty years, scholars of the Bible have drawn on the conglomerate field of migration studies to illuminate historical contexts and to exegete biblical texts. This paper recognizes the rich contributions supplied across the decades by such...
In this paper we focus on the estimation of mutual information from finite samples
One of the most widely accepted explanations for why wars occur despite its Pareto-suboptimality is mutual optimism: if both sides expect to gain a lot by fighting, war becomes inevitable. The literature on mutual optimism typically assumes mutually...
We propose the outperformance probability as a new performance measure, which can be used in order to compare a strategy with a specified benchmark, and develop the basic statistical properties of its maximum-likelihood estimator in a Brownian-motion...
The nature of dependence between random variables has always been the subject of many statistical problems for over a century. Yet today, there is a great deal of research on this topic, especially focusing on the analysis of nonlinearity. Shannon mu...
Ants, plants, and hemipterans in tritrophic mutualisms represent closer approximations to real ecosystems compared to twofold mutualisms, playing a critical role in ecosystem functioning. Although habitat degradation is a useful framework for investi...
When a distance relay protects a transmission line located on a dual circuit tower, a coupling effect will occur between the two circuits. Transposition of the circuits can reduce the mutual impedances, but this does not cater to the zero-sequence mu...
Rényi-type generalizations of entropy, relative entropy and mutual information have found numerous applications throughout information theory and beyond. While there is consensus that the ways A. Rényi generalized entropy and relative e...
We propose a novel feature selection method based on quadratic mutual information which has its roots in Cauchy–Schwarz divergence and Renyi entropy. The method uses the direct estimation of quadratic mutual information from data samples using Gaussi...
Magnetic induction communication and wireless power transmission based on magnetic coupling have significant application prospects in underwater environments. Mutual impedance is a key parameter particularly required for the design of the systems. Ho...
Starting with a new formulation for the mutual information (MI) between a pair of events, this paper derives alternative upper bounds and extends those to the case of two discrete random variables. Normalized mutual information (NMI) measures are the...
A mutual fund is a common instrument for households and corporations to invest in the financial markets through diversified portfolios of securities. Investing in managed mutual funds involves relying on a fund manager’s knowledge, expertise, a...
The work described in this paper develops a formal method for modeling and exhaustive verification of mutual exclusion algorithms. The process is based on timed automata and the Uppaal model checker. The technique was successfully applied to several...
We introduce a new estimate of mutual information between a dataset and a target variable that can be maximised analytically and has broad applicability in the field of machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. This estimate has previousl...
We study the time evolution of mutual information between mass distributions in spatially separated but casually connected regions in an expanding universe. The evolution of mutual information is primarily determined by the configuration entropy rate...
The purpose of the paper is to introduce, using the known results concerning the entropy in product MV algebras, the concepts of mutual information and Kullback–Leibler divergence for the case of product MV algebras and examine algebraic properties o...
The recent development of the mobile Internet and the rise of social media have significantly enriched the way people access information. Accurate modeling of the probability of information propagation between users is essential for studying informat...
A single negative metamaterial structure with hexagonal split-ring resonators (H-SRRs) is inserted within a two-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) in order to achieve a reduction of mutual coupling between c...
Measures favoring healthy lives among populations around the world are essential to reduce social inequalities. Mutual funds could play an important role funding these measures if they are able to attract socially concerned investors by improving the...
Form ADV regulatory disclosures made by mutual fund management firms indicate that nearly one-third of investment advisers to mutual funds offer pension consulting services to defined contribution plans, creating inherent conflicts of interest that a...
Mutual information is one of the mostly used measures for evaluating image similarity. In this paper, we investigate the application of three different Tsallis-based generalizations of mutual information to analyze the similarity between scanned docu...
Using a recently discovered method for producing random symbol sequences with prescribed transition counts, we present an exact null hypothesis significance test (NHST) for mutual information between two random variables, the null hypothesis being th...
Sports is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that revolves around the interdisciplinary area of exercise sciences applied in sport and public health. The intention of Sports is to link several scientific disciplines in an integrated fashion in order...
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a profitable technique to greatly boost spectral efficiency, which has been embraced by the fifth-generation (5G) and sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. By exploiting appropriate downl...
The mutual interactions of Lamb waves in nonlinear elastic plates are studied in this article. Many researchers have investigated the interactions of Lamb wave modes at nonlinear higher harmonics. However, little is known about nonlinearity-driven La...
In this paper, I study the impact of market competition on mutual fund marketing expenses. In a sample of US domestic equity mutual funds, I find that marketing expenses decrease with the competition. This effect is stronger for top-performing funds....
Modulation bandwidth enhancement of directly modulated semiconductor lasers (DMLs) has attracted broad interest to accommodate the tremendously growing demand for network traffic. In this paper, a monolithically integrated mutually coupled (IMC) lase...
This paper aims to contribute to the lack of research on the learning process of mutual fund markets. The empirical design is focused on the ability of the Spanish equity mutual fund industry to learn from its important errors. The choice of this ind...
Bacteria associated with insects potentially provide many beneficial services and have been well documented. Mutualism that relates to insects is widespread in ecosystems. However, the interrelation between “symbiotic bacteria” and “mutualism” has ra...
A new, non–parametric and binless estimator for the mutual information of a d–dimensional random vector is proposed. First of all, an equation that links the mutual information to the entropy of a suitable random vector with uniformly distributed com...
Dekker’s algorithm for mutual exclusion of two processes is the well-known first developed correct solution based only on software mechanisms. The algorithm served as the starting point for researchers to create subsequent safe solutions both f...
Two orthonormal bases in the d-dimensional Hilbert space are said to be unbiased if the square modulus of the inner product of any vector of one basis with any vector of the other equals 1 d. The presence of a modulus in the problem of finding a set...
Mutualism can facilitate the colonization, establishment, and spread of invasive species. By modifying interactions with third parties, mutualisms can have cascading community-wide effects. Both native and invasive ants are capable of forming mutuali...
In this study, I discuss recent studies of human/wildlife mutualisms and suggest that several cases considered to represent domestication that has arisen through commensalism would be better considered as examples of mutualism between humans and vari...
In this study, we provide a comprehensive examination of the performance of financial (specialty sector financial) mutual funds over a 23-year period, a much longer time frame than what has been analyzed in previous literature. To fully understand th...
Modern healthcare generates significant amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and waste, which pollute the global environment and damage human health. Healthcare firms could reduce these environmental emissions and waste by developing environmentally f...
A simple self-decoupling approach using only a shorting pin is proposed to effectively reduce mutual coupling in multiple-input multiple-output patch antennas. By loading a shorting pin along the polarization direction on one side of the patch antenn...
6 April 2021
To minimize the damage caused by large earthquakes, mutual assistance activities between residents and rescue victims (i.e., to support residents who cannot evacuate individually) are important. To enhance these activities, the technologies and metho...
The limitations of conventional sensors have made array antennas increasingly crucial for gathering information and communication applications in intelligent transportation and communication systems. Compact cylindrical arrays are particularly favore...
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