ALICEROBBIN ABSTRACT THISARTICLE EXAMINES SELECTED ECONOMIC and social indicators of our multiracial and multiethnic society at the end of the twentieth century to provide an information base for wise decisions about effective library services. The statistical profile describes the demography, economic well-being , and educational attainment of the principal racial and Hispanic origin groups. T...

Two drug products are considered bioequivalent 'if their bio-availabilities ... are similar to such a degree that their effects, with respect to both efficacy and safety, will essentially be the same'. 1 The bioequivalence of two drug products is generally demonstrated through a clinical study in healthy volunteers, the so-called bioequivalence study. If bioequivalence is shown for two drug pro...

Most reinforcement learning methods oper­ ate on propositional representations of the world state. Such representations are of­ ten intractably large and generalize poorly. Using a deictic representation is believed to be a viable alternative: they promise gener­ alization while allowing the use of existing reinforcement-learning methods. Yet, there are few experiments on learning with deic­ ti...

This paper introduces a relational function approximation technique based on McCallum’s UTree algorithm (McCallum, 1995). We have extended the original approach to handle relational observations using an attribute graph of observable objects and relationships (McGovern et al., 2003). Furthermore, we address the inherent challenges that arise with a relational representation. We use stochastic s...