Results Early results from completed trials show considerable variation in the methods and instruments used to assess depression. The majority of studies have used symptom based instruments including the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Global Clinical Improvement Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, while other trials reported the use of clin...

Multi-winner voting is the process of selecting a fixed-size set representative candidates based on voters' preferences. It occurs in applications ranging from politics (parliamentary elections) to design modern computer (collaborative filtering, dynamic Q&A platforms, diversifying search results). All these share problem identifying subset alternatives -- and study multi-winner principled anal...

fuzzy decision tree (fdt) classifiers combine decision trees with approximate reasoning offered by fuzzy representation to deal with language and measurement uncertainties. when a fdt induction algorithm utilizes stopping criteria for early stopping of the tree's growth, threshold values of stopping criteria will control the number of nodes. finding a proper threshold value for a stopping crite...

Classifying the identities of people appearing in broadcast news video into anchor, reporter, or news subject is an important topic in high-level video analysis. Given the visual resemblance of different types of people, this work explores multi-modal features derived from a variety of evidences, such as the speech identity, transcript clues, temporal video structure, named entities, and uses a...

A wide range of classification models have been explored for financial risk prediction, but conclusions on which technique behaves better may vary when different performance evaluation measures are employed. Accordingly, this paper proposes the use of multiple criteria decision making tools in order to give a ranking of algorithms. More specifically, the selection of the most appropriate credit...

The atom-bond connectivity (ABC) index is a recently introduced topological index, defined as ABC(G) = ∑ uv∈E(G) √ du+dv−2 dudv , where du (or dv) is the degree the vertex u (or v). The ABC index of benzenoid systems and phenylenes are computed, a simple relation is established between the atom-bond connectivity index of a phenylene and the corresponding hexagonal squeeze in this paper. Mathema...