Binary decision trees based on univariate splits have traditionally employed so-called impurity functions as a means of searching for the best node splits. Such functions use estimates of the class distributions. In the present paper we introduce a new concept to binary tree design: instead of working with the class distributions of the data we work directly with the distribution of the errors ...

The minimum mean-square error (MMSE) and minimum error entropy (MEE) are two important criteria in the estimation related problems. The MMSE can be viewed as a robust MEE criterion in the minimax sense, as its minimization is equivalent to minimizing an upper bound (the maximum value) of the error entropy. This note gives a new and more meaningful interpretation on the robustness of MMSE for pr...

Migration-enhanced epitaxy ~MEE! has been successfully employed to grow epitaxial films of the ternary compound CuInSe2 on ~001! GaAs that exhibit distinct coexisting domains of both a nonequilibrium crystallographic structure characterized by CuAu ~CA! cation ordering, and the compound’s equilibrium chalcopyrite structure. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron diffraction, and Raman scatter...

„Ich kan yetzo nit mee …“ Johannes Reuchlin unterwegs im Dienst Württembergs. Begleitbuch und Katalog zur Ausstellung des Landesarchivs Baden-Württemberg, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, bearb. von Erwin Frauenknecht unter Mitarbeit Peter Rückert Maren Volk. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2022. 117 S., 40 Abb. ISBN 978-3-17-042567-5. € 12,–

A scalable new mathematical model based on the principles of Process Integration has been developed for the analysis of multiple effect evaporator (MEE) systems. It uses the concepts of stream analysis, temperature path and internal heat exchange for the formulation of model equations. In addition to above the model also takes into account variable physico-thermal properties of steam/vapor, con...

Eosinophilic Otitis Media (EOM) is remarkably characterized by viscous middle ear effusion (MEE) infiltrated with numerous eosinophils. Since EOM is a high risk disease of progressive hearing loss, early diagnosis and management of appropriate treatment along with an understanding of the pathology of EOM are imperative. The treatment strategies for EOM comprise the removal of the highly viscous...

This study was undertaken to improve the diagnosis of otitis media and to investigate possible hearing loss caused by middle ear effusion (MEE) in small children. Temporal development of AOM was assessed from 250 episodes in 184 children. Sixty-three per cent of cases of AOM occurred during the first week after the onset of URI, peaking on days 2 to 5. The onset of AOM in children with a histor...

Jeffrey Henderson and Richard Phillips are respectively Professor of International Economic Sociology and Research Fellow in Economic Governance in the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies in the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester and Eun Mee Kim is a Professor in the Graduate School of Inter...

We provide further evidence that implementing software countermeasures against timing attacks is a non-trivial task and requires domain-specific software development processes: we report an implementation bug in the S2N library, recently released by AWS Labs. This bug (now fixed) allowed bypassing the balancing countermeasures against timing attacks deployed in the implementation of the MAC-the...