Natural marine soundscapes are being threatened by increasing anthropic noise, particularly in shallow coastal waters. To preserve and monitor these soundscapes, understanding them is essential. Here, we propose a new method for semi-supervised categorization of with further interpretation categories according to concurrent environmental conditions. The proposed methodology uses nonlinear mappi...

The term registry is widely used to refer to any database storing clinical information collected as a byproduct of patient care. Despite the use of this single characterizing term (registry), these databases exist in various forms and support functions ranging from biomedical informatics and clinical research, to public health, epidemiology and evidence-based clinical practice. This ambiguous t...

Learning programs that generalize from real-world examples will have to deal with many different kinds of data. Continuous numeric data can cause problems far algorithms that scorch for examples with identical property values. These problems can be surmounted by categorizing the numeric doto. However, this process has problems of its awn. In this paper, we look at the need for categorizing nume...

The convergence of two developments — the mapping of the human genome and the preponderance of evidence for profound racial and ethnic disparities in cancer morbidity and mortality — has reinvigorated discussion regarding the scientific usefulness and meaning of the construct of race. Race is typically assessed via an individual’s self-report. The accuracy of self-reported race is considered im...

Any practical process of risk ranking must group hazards into a manageable number of categories. Defining such categories requires value choices that can have important implications for the rankings that result. Most risk-management organizations will find it useful to begin defining categories in terms of environmental loadings or initiating events. However, the resulting categories typically ...

ELIZABETH BONOMO Sanctionable Behavior in a Felony Level Drug Court: Categorizing Noncompliant Behavior Through a Criminal-Thinking Lens (Under the direction of DR. WENDY GUASTAFERRO) Drug courts use sanctions as a form of behavior management and modification, and they are an important structural tool in the treatment of drug ...

Computer programs that make inferences about natural language are easily fooled by the often haphazard relationship between words and their meanings. This thesis develops Lexical Semantic Analysis (LxSA), a general-purpose framework for describing word groupings and meanings in context. LxSA marries comprehensive linguistic annotation of corpora with engineering of statistical natural language ...

Predictive process monitoring has recently gained traction in academia and is maturing also in companies. However, with the growing body of research, it might be daunting for companies to navigate in this domain in order to find, provided certain data, what can be predicted and what methods to use. The main objective of this paper is developing a value-driven framework for classifying existing ...

www.PosterPresentations.com • This paper presents a sparse representation based complete kernel marginal Fisher analysis (SCMFA) framework for categorizing fine art images. • First, we introduce several Fisher vector based features for feature extraction so as to extract and encode important discriminatory information of the painting image. • Second, we propose a complete marginal Fisher analys...

A reformulation of a mathematical program is a formulation which shares some properties with, but is in some sense better than, the original program. Reformulations are important with respect to the choice and efficiency of the solution algorithms; furthermore, it is desirable that reformulations can be carried out automatically. Reformulation techniques are very common in mathematical programm...