N. Stewart, G. D. A. Brown, and N. Chater (2005) presented a relative judgment model (RJM) of absolute identification, in which the current stimulus is judged relative to the preceding stimulus. S. Brown, A. A. J. Marley, and Y. Lacouture (2007) found that the RJM does not predict their finding of increased accuracy after large stimulus jumps, except at the expense of other effects. In fact, th...

In this paper, we propose a parametric uniform approximation method to solve NP-hard absolute value equations. For this, we uniformly approximate absolute value in such a way that the nonsmooth absolute value equation can be formulated as a smooth nonlinear equation. By solving the parametric smooth nonlinear equation using Newton method, for a decreasing sequence of parameters, we can get the ...

In this paper we consider the absolute variation statistics of a composition σ = σ1 · · ·σm of n which is a measure of the sum of absolute differences between each consecutive pair of parts in a composition. This and some related statistics which we discuss, can also be interpreted within the context of bargraph polygons and bargraph walks of area n. In this context, absolute variation correspo...

PurposeIncreased variability in the non-invasive gene expression profiling (GEP) (AlloMap®) is associated with an increased risk of future events, but association absolute change below threshold GEP scores events has not yet been evaluated.MethodsPatients from Surveillance HeartCare Outcomes Registry (SHORE) score < 34 had test calculated. The event interest was a combination rejection (ISHLT ≥...

Absolute pitch (AP) is the ability to identify a tone's pitch or to produce a tone at a particular pitch without the use of an external reference pitch. AP exists in varying degrees among people generally described as AP possessors. AP possessors vary not only in the accuracy with which they can identify pitches but also in their ability to produce pitches absolutely and in their ability to ide...