In this work, we introduce a mathematical framework, called the Maximum Cosine Framework or MCF, for deriving new linear classifiers. The method is based on selecting an appropriate bound on the cosine of the angle between the target function and the algorithm’s. To justify its correctness, we use the MCF to show how to regenerate the update rule of Aggressive ROMMA [5]. Moreover, we construct ...

Life as a Neurological Surgeon is a foreboding responsibility and a gratifying opportunity. Having the confidence and trust of individuals faced with a life or death situation requires extensive training and experience. Curiosity provides the motivation to continuously seek better understanding of complex disease problems, better technology, improved diagnostic capability, and surgical skills. ...

As I read the study by Bakhtiari et al. (1), I noticed that they miscalculated the positive predictive value. They indicated that the positive predictive value of the PCR assay was 100%. But when I placed the values on the table and calculated the positive predictive value of the PCR assay, I found it 83.3%.

Today, laparoscopic surgery is an integral part of the operative repertoire and has broadened gynaecological surgery by continuously providing new indication areas. For a long time, laparoscopy was regarded as the major trend of the century and as a revolution in surgical technology. In recent times, however, the problems associated with this operating technique have been subject of discussions...

Learning problems in the text processing domain often map the text to a space whose dimensions are the measured features of the text, e.g., its words. Three characteristic properties of this domain are (a) very high dimensionality, (b) both the learned concepts and the instances reside very sparsely in the feature space, and (c) a high variation in the number of active features in an instance. ...