Interpretable machine learning models have received increasing interest in recent years, especially in domains where humans are involved in the decision-making process. However, the possible loss of the task performance for gaining interpretability is o‰en inevitable. Œis performance downgrade puts practitioners in a dilemma of choosing between a top-performing black-box model with no explanati...

Since performance of conventional linear prediction (LP) deteriorates in formant estimation of high-pitched voices, several all-pole modeling methods robust to F0 have been developed. This study compares five such previously known methods and proposes a new technique, Weighted Linear Prediction with Attenuated Main Excitation (WLP-AME). WLP-AME utilizes weighted linear prediction in which the s...

Security properties based on information flow, such as noninterference, provide strong guarantees that confidentiality is maintained. However, programs often need to leak some amount of confidential information in order to serve their intended purpose, and thus violate noninterference. Real systems that control information flow often include mechanisms for downgrading or declassifying informati...

Disjunction Category Labels (DC-labels) are an expressive label format used to classify the sensitivity of data in information-flow control systems. DC-labels use capability-like privileges to downgrade information. Inappropriate use of privileges can compromise security, but DC-labels provide no mechanism to ensure appropriate use. We extend DC-labels with the novel notions of bounded privileg...

The Web provides its users with abundant information. Unfortunately, when a Web search is performed, both users and search engines are faced with an annoying problem: the presence of misleading Web pages, i.e., spam Web pages, that are ranked among legitimate Web pages. The mixed results downgrade the performance of search engines and frustrate users who are required to filter out useless infor...

This study examines strategic behavior in “360-degree” performance appraisal systems, in which an employee is evaluated by her supervisor as well as her colleagues. Using proprietary data from a mid-sized Chinese public accounting firm, we find that employees manipulate their ratings of peers (i.e., colleagues within the same hierarchical rank of the company). Specifically, they downgrade ratin...

Waldorf s comments indicate a misunderstanding of both the intent and content of our paper. Three confusions are serious enough to demand clarification. First, we did not “downgrade” the scientific status of sociobiology nor did we admit creationism into the domain of science. Most researchers of the evolutionary biology of social behavior accept the social, methodological, and philosophical ru...

Stemming from the exceptionalist understanding of 1979 revolution and/or relying on key political and economic characteristics rentier state theory, most explanations Iranian post-revolutionary privilege national space downgrade capitalism as a totalizing unity. In contrast, this article defines set institutional forms reflective social relations that are generated contestations over processes ...

The integration of heterogeneous networks is a trend of Fourth Generation (4G) systems. But with more integrating network technologies, bandwidth management is more complicated. This paper proposes a bandwidth management method, called Bandwidth Management and Disposition (BMD). The BMD calculates the Reword Point (RP) to quantify the Mobile Host’s (MH) requests, and calculates the Upgrade Rank...

BACKGROUND Radial graft is one of the optimal treatments for reconstruction after tongue cancer, but it is not free of side effects. Hypertrichosis over the graft, causing an intraoral paratrichosis, might downgrade the quality of life and even require further interventions. CLINICAL CASE The case is presented of a 58 year-old man, who developed hypertrichosis after surgery for tongue carcino...