The TRANSCEND system for fault detection and isolation in continuous systems uses qualitative reasoning methods to analyze transients caused by abrupt faults. Qualitative transient analysis avoids some of the computational difficulties associated with numerical schemes, but they lack discriminating power. This paper presents the formal basis for qualitative transient analysis, and then establis...

Because causal relations are neither observable nor deducible, they must be induced from observable events. The 2 dominant approaches to the psychology of causal induction—the covariation approach and the causal power approach—are each crippled by fundamental problems. This article proposes an integration of these approaches thai overcomes these problems. The proposal is that reasoners innately...

A characteristic of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is to allow individual decision making units (DMUs) to select the most advantageous weights in calculating their efficiency scores. This flexibility, on the other hand, deters the comparison among DMUs on a common base. For dealing with this difficulty and assessing all the DMUs on the same scale, this paper proposes using a multiple objective...

Recent studies indicate that the discriminatory power of the core DNA barcodes (rbcLa + matK) for land plants may have been overestimated since their performance have been tested only on few closely related species. In this study we focused mainly on how the addition of complementary barcodes (nrITS and trnH-psbA) to the core barcodes will affect the performance of the core barcodes in discrimi...

To represent the large amount of data in the biometric images an efficient feature extraction method is needed. Further biometric image acquisition is subject to deforming processes such as rotation, translation and scaling. Hence it is also required that the image representation be invariant to the deformations and sustain the discriminating features. Considering the trade off between the disc...

The discriminating power of three dimensional (3D) descriptors extracted from 3D human face surfaces is analyzed. An automatic face recognition system using different subsets of the descriptor set has been implemented and tested. We used 420 3D-facial meshes belonging to 60 individuals, including views presenting light rotations and facial expressions, for the experiments. An HK segmentation (b...

Worldwide, the criteria-based content analysis (CBCA) is probably the most widely used veracity assessment technique for discriminating between accounts of true and fabricated events. In this study, two experiments examined the effectiveness of the CBCA for discriminating between accounts of true events and suggested events believed to be true. In Experiment 1, CBCA-trained judges evaluated par...

We assess the model discriminating power of a combined phenomenological analysis of μ → eγ and μ → e conversion on different target nuclei, including the current hadronic uncertainties. We find that the theoretical uncertainties can be largely reduced by using input from lattice QCD and do not constitute a limiting factor in discriminating models where one or at most two underlying operators (d...