We investigate a simple semi-naive Bayesian ranking method that combines naive Bayes with induction of decision tables. Naive Bayes and decision tables can both be trained efficiently, and the same holds true for the combined semi-naive model. We show that the resulting ranker, compared to either component technique, frequently significantly increases AUC. For some datasets it significantly imp...

Leadership has been identified as one of the critical factors in the successful development of e-government projects especially so in developing countries. Unfortunately, empirical studies linking the outcome of egovernment projects and the role of leadership are very limited. Moreover, these studies did not comprehensively discuss the role of leadership in implementing e-government projects in...

We propose a novel method to detect events involving multiple agents in a video and to learn their structure in terms of temporally related chain of sub-events. The proposed method has three significant contributions over existing frameworks. First, we present the concept of a video event graph, to learn the event structure from training videos. The video event graph is composed of temporally c...

Much of the work on opponent modeling for game tree search has been unsuccessful. In two-player, zero-sum games, the gains from opponent modeling are often outweighed by the cost of modeling. Opponent modeling solutions simply cannot search as deep as the highly optimized minimax search with alpha-beta pruning. Recent work has begun to look at the need for opponent modeling in n-player or gener...

Human mast cells (MC) were derived from umbilical cord blood and bone marrow progenitors cultured in the presence of a conditioned medium from a human mastocytosis cell strain and recombinant human kit ligand (rhKL). KL induced MC of predominantly two immunophenotypes, MCT and MCTC. In contrast, the conditioned medium induced MC subtypes MCTC and a third subtype, MCC, positive for chymase but n...

•New dopa-responsive phenotype expands the spectrum of GlyR antibody-associated PERM syndrome.•Appendicular rigidity with axial hypotonia and oculomotor abnormalities suggested hypodopaminergic tone.•Downstream effects antibody may interfere dopamine network. Progressive encephalomyelitis myoclonus (PERM) syndrome is a rare autoimmune encephalitis, often associated glutamic acid decarboxylase (...

A representational gap exists between low-level measurements (segmentation, object classification, tracking) and high-level understanding of video sequences. In this paper, we propose a novel representation of events in videos to bridge this gap, based on the CASE representation of natural languages. The proposed representation has three significant contributions over existing frameworks. First...

This is a comprehensive review of the current literature addressing factors that are involved in successful implantation euploid blastocysts. It includes analysis published studies on laboratory may impact performance blastocysts, including morphology, day biopsy, and rebiopsy. Preexisting underlying patient outcome embryo transfer (ET) blastocysts also explored, body mass index endocrine abnor...

This paper discusses what kinds of computer information systems might be of broad social value in the context of the increasingly severe ecological and social consequences of economic growth, and how they might be built and maintained. The paper has two parts. The first offers a particular understanding of the ecological and social “limits” to economic growth. The second considers how this unde...

Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash ABSTRACT Payment models directly impact the way patients experience care. Historically, payment model innovations have been examined mostly from economic, organizational, and public health lenses. Financial incentives exist in all healthcare systems, whether a socialized, private or insurance, single payer system. This article examines alignment of current ...