Diet quality is an important measure in understanding food security because of the synergistic nature of microand macronutrients (Gerber, 2001 [1]) and the association of healthy diet patterns with reduced risk for diet-related disease and illness (Kant, 1996 [2]). The Diet Quality Index ? International (DQI-I) is a composite, individual-level diet quality indicator. It was created in 2003 to e...

It has footnotes and a bibliography but a historiographical chapter would have been invaluable for teacher and student alike. More particularly, Berliner does not situate his work in relation to E. Richard Brown's Rockefeller medicine men, which appeared in 1979. This provocative work Berliner acknowledges, saying: "Despite the clearly dominant role that Rockefeller played in the transition fro...

the degree kirchhoff index of a connected graph $g$ is defined as‎ ‎the sum of the terms $d_i,d_j,r_{ij}$ over all pairs of vertices‎, ‎where $d_i$ is the‎ ‎degree of the $i$-th vertex‎, ‎and $r_{ij}$ the resistance distance between the $i$-th and‎ ‎$j$-th vertex of $g$‎. ‎bounds for the degree kirchhoff index of the line and para-line‎ ‎graphs are determined‎. ‎the special case of regular grap...

Dimensionality reduction is ubiquitous in the analysis of complex dynamics. The conventional dimensionality reduction techniques, however, focus on reproducing the underlying configuration space, rather than the dynamics itself. The constructed low-dimensional space does not provide a complete and accurate description of the dynamics. Here I describe how to perform dimensionality reduction whil...

We show that developing a Theory of Everything (TOE) to unify all physical interactions requires a spacetime model having: (i) a discrete-continuous dual structure in which physical properties that could hypothetically vary continuously in some abstract sense are discretized upon measurement and (ii) a variable connectivity dimensionality field. Because this type of space transcends variable-ba...

In online advertising, display ads are increasingly being placed based on realtime auctions where the advertiser who wins gets to serve the ad. This is called real-time bidding (RTB). In RTB, auctions have very tight time constraints on the order of 100ms. Therefore mechanisms for bidding intelligently such as clickthrough rate prediction need to be sufficiently fast. In this work, we propose t...

Several modelling techniques are used in speech recognition to model the short term variations in a speech signal. These techniques generally use a high dimensional feature vector which could be correlated. Several classical techniques of discriminant analysis are used for reducing the dimensionality of the input feature without affecting the overall performance. One such approach is the minimu...

In 1963 Atiyah and Singer proved the famous Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, which states, among other things, that the space of elliptic pseudodifferential operators is such that the collection of operators with any given index forms a connected subset. Contained in this statement is the somewhat more specialized claim that the index of an elliptic operator must be invariant under sufficiently sma...

The existing multi-dimensional index structures are not adequate for indexing higherdimensional data sets. Although conceptually they can be extended to higher dimensionalities, they usually require time and space that grow exponentially with the dimensionality. In this paper, we analyze the existing index structures and derive some requirements of an index structure for content-based image ret...