Semantic indexing of images and videos in the consumer domain has become a very important issue for both research and actual application. In this work we developed Kodak’s consumer video benchmark data set, which includes (1) a significant number of videos from actual users, (2) a rich lexicon that accommodates consumers’ needs, and (3) the annotation of a subset of concepts over the entire vid...

Systems that learn from examples often create a disjunctive concept definition. Small disjuncts are those disjuncts which cover only a few training examples. The problem with small disjuncts is that they are more error prone than large disjuncts. This paper investigates the reasons why small disjuncts are more error prone than large disjuncts. It shows that when there are rare cases within a do...

The ImageCLEF 2013 Scalable Concept Image Annotation Subtask was the second edition of a challenge aimed at developing more scalable image annotation systems. Unlike traditional image annotation challenges, which rely on a set of manually annotated images as training data for each concept, the participants were only allowed to use automatically gathered web data instead. The main objective of t...

context: metaparadigm of nursing is one of the nursing discipline challenges of the present century, which should take into consideration the diversity of different cultures and viewpoints. purpose: the purpose of this study is to evolve the concept of “nursing” (one of the concepts in nursing metaparadigm) on the basis of the islamic scholars’ view. materials and methods: in this philosophical...

background and aims. different factors affect children’s behavior during dental treatment, including psychological and behavioral characteristics. the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation of self-concept on child’s anxiety and behavior during dental treatment in 4 to 6-year-old children. materials and methods. a total of 235 preschoolers aged 4 to 6 years were included in this desc...

Özet. Günümüzde robot ve oyun teknolojilerindeki geli melerin yanı sıra, arttırılmı gerçeklik teknolojisinin yaygınla masının bir sonucu olarak anime karakterler geli tirilmekte, dokunulabilir ekranlar vasıtasıyla kullanıcı etkile imi sa lanabilmektedir. Bu teknolojilerde kullanılan duygu ve davranı modelleme konusu hala çözülememi bir sorundur ve mevcut çözümler mekanik düzeyde kalmaktadır. Bu...

It summarizes the development of theory and models of interest rate term structure, analyzes and resolves three difficult problems in term structure. They are the nonlinear of mean drift, the conditional heteroskedasticity of volatility and extreme interest rate because of paroxysmal events. It builds the stochastic mean and stochastic volatility interest rate term structure model, SVJ-SD model...

Today’s world culture wealth is based on the diversity of language and cultures that are an inherent part of the identity of its countries and regions. Education has a preeminent responsibility to preserve world’s cultural heritage. Computer-based learning tools among other issues must also take into account the variety of languages. Along this paper some issues about the localisation of the CM...

Concept drift is the trend observed in almost all real time applications. Many online and offline algorithms were developed in the past to analyze this drift and train our algorithms. Different levels of diversity are required before and after a drift to get the best generalization accuracy. In our paper, we present a new online approach Extended Dynamic Weighted Majority with diversity (EDWM) ...

A B S T R AC T This article draws on a product innovation perspective to explore the process of knowledge commodification. It is argued that key suppliers of management knowledge do not particularly regard this process as unproblematic. Using interviews with management consultants, this study provides an understanding of the internal elements that may inhibit or encourage the development of new...