We consider lower bounds for the largest eigenvalue of a symmetric matrix. In particular we extend a recent approach by Piet Van Mieghem. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AMS classification: Primary 15A42; Secondary 30B10

The report summarises some preliminary findings of WP1.4: Confidence Estimation and feature significance. It presents an application of conformal predictors in transductive and inductive modes to the large, high-dimensional, sparse and imbalanced data sets found in Compound Activity Prediction from PubChem public repository. The report describes a version of conformal predictors called Mondrian...

The presentation provides an update on ongoing research using three-dimensional Colour Mondrians. Two still life arrangements comprising hand-painted coloured blocks of 11 different colours were subjected to two different lighting conditions of a nearly uniform light and directed spotlights. The three-dimensional nature of these test targets adds shadows and multiple reflections, not found in f...

Vartul Sangal, Leena Nieminen, Barbara Weinhardt, Jane Raeside, Nicholas P. Tucker, Catalina-Diana Florea, Kevin G. Pollock, and Paul A. Hoskisson Author affiliations: Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland UK (V. Sangal, L. Nieminen, N.P. Tucker, P.A. Hoskisson); Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcas...

An experiment to determine the chemical composition and protein quality of 13 fish substrates (pollock by-products, n = 5; fish protein hydrolysates, n = 5; and fish meals, n = 3) was conducted. Two of these substrates, salmon protein hydrolysate (SPH) and salmon meal with crushed bones (SMB), were used to determine their palatability as components of dog diets. Pollock by-products differed in ...

Scott Sturgeon has recently challenged Pollock’s account of undercutting defeaters. The challenge involves three primary contentions: (1) the account is both too strong and too weak, (2) undercutting defeaters exercise their power to defeat only in conjunction with higher-order beliefs about the basis of the lower-order beliefs whose justification they target, and (3) since rebutting defeaters ...

Continuous flash suppression (CFS) involves the presentation of a rapidly changing Mondrian sequence to one eye and a static target in the other eye. Targets presented in this manner remain suppressed for several seconds at a time, and this has seen the prevalent use of CFS in studies of unconscious visual processes. However, the mechanisms behind CFS remain unclear, complicating its use and th...

In 1925 COOLEY and LEE €or the first time clearly defined as a distinct clinical entity a chronic, progressive, and fatal anemia of childhood which is characterized hematologically by hypochromia, micro-, aniso-, and poikilocytosis, decreased erythrocyte fragility in hypotonic saline solutions, peripheral erythroblastosis, failure to respond to any known anti-anemic therapy, and an increased in...