BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Trainees' interpretations of neuroradiologic studies are finalized by faculty neuroradiologists. We aimed to identify the factors that determine the degree to which the preliminary reports are modified. MATERIALS AND METHODS The character length of the preliminary and final reports and the percentage character change between the 2 reports were determined for neuroradiol...

A black-box model of a system is one that does not use any particular prior knowledge of the character or physics of the relationships involved. It is therefore more a question of ”curvefitting” than ”modeling”. In this presentation several examples of such black-box model structures will be given. Both linear and non-linear structures are treated. Relationships between linear models, fuzzy mod...

We prove that higher Sobolev norms of solutions of quasi-linear Klein-Gordon equations with small Cauchy data on S remain small over intervals of time longer than the ones given by local existence theory. This result extends previous ones obtained by several authors in the semi-linear case. The main new difficulty one has to cope with is the loss of one derivative coming from the quasi-linear c...

objectives: according to the gateway drug theory, tobacco use is a predisposing factor for future substance abuse. this study was conducted to compare nicotine and opiate dependents to identify the differences between their personality traits and psychopathology that makes them turn to other substances after cigarette smoking. methods: a causal-comparative study was conducted. three groups were...

Research on Interactive Storytelling has mainly focused on the opposition between a discourse point of view and a character point of view for a story. In this paper, we propose an approach to model Interactive Storytelling using Linear Logic, which is a support for reasoning on both points of view. Then we give an example on an educational game that shows the possibility of validating a scenari...

In this paper, we propose adaptive weighted learning for linear regression problems via the Kullback– Leibler (KL) divergence. The alternative optimization method is used to solve the proposed model. Meanwhile, we theoretically demonstrate that the solution of the optimization algorithm converges to a stationary point of the model. In addition, we also fuse global linear regression and class-or...

For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

This paper presents a recognition-based character segmentation method for handwritten Chinese characters. Possible non-linear segmentation paths are initially located using a probabilistic Viterbi algorithm. Candidate segmentation paths are determined by verifying overlapping paths, between-character gaps, and adjacent-path distances. A segmentation graph is then constructed using candidate pat...

An automated feature extraction and evaluation method of feeling information from printed and handwritten characters is proposed. This method is based on image processing and pattern recognition techniques. First, an input binarized pattern is transformed by a distance transformation. Second, a two-dimensional vector field is composed from the gradient of the distance distribution. Third, a div...