Motivated from real world problems, like object categorization, we study a particular mixed-norm regularization for Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL). It is assumed that the given set of kernels are grouped into distinct components where each component is crucial for the learning task at hand. The formulation hence employs l∞ regularization for promoting combinations at the component level and l1 ...

I NDUSTRIAL experiments often involve two types of factors: those that are hard to change and those that are easy to change. The experiments are performed by fixing the levels of the hard-to-change factors and then running all or some of the combinations of the easy-to-change factor levels. Then, a new setting in the hard-to-change factors is selected and the process is repeated. With replicati...

Coordinate descent (CD) methods have been a state-of-the-art technique for training largescale linear SVM. The most used setting is to solve the dual problem of an SVM formulation without the bias term, for which the CD procedure of updating one variable at a time is very simple and easy to implement. In this work, we extend the one-variable setting to use two variables at each CD step. The ext...

Thirteen school children aged 12.21 ± 0.98 years carried backpack and one-strap athletic bag during their stair ascent and descent. The load weights of the bags included 0%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of body weight. A Novel Pedar System was used to record and analyze the insole pressure during stair descending with different loads. The first peak force was 1.59 times the second peak force. A load of 15...

The Caudwell Xtreme Everest (CXE) expedition involved the detailed study of 222 subjects ascending to 5300 m or higher during the first half of 2007. Following baseline measurements at sea level, 198 trekker-subjects trekked to Everest Base Camp (EBC) following an identical ascent profile. An additional group of 24 investigator-subjects followed a similar ascent to EBC and remained there for th...

We aim at developing a simple model as an interpretative framework for the water vapor isotopic variations in tropical troposphere over ocean. use large-eddy simulations of disorganized convection radiative-convective equilibrium to justify underlying assumptions this model, constrain its input parameters and evaluate results. also interpreting depletion composition lower midtroposphere precipi...

Abstract A field experiment was carried out in one of the orchards Al-Qassim district Babel Governorate to find ability a locally manufactured platform serve palm trees by working flat and uneven orchard land, tree heights 4, 8, 12 meters, it performs pollination, pruning harvesting services. The time ascent descent, service, palm/hour productivity were measured. randomized complete block desig...