Data stream mining problem has caused widely concerns in the area of machine learning and data mining. In some recent studies, ensemble classification has been widely used in concept drift detection, however, most of them regard classification accuracy as a criterion for judging whether concept drift happening or not. Information entropy is an important and effective method for measuring uncert...

1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada 2Department of Surgery and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Western University, London, ON, Canada 3Department of Pathophysiology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China 4School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China 5Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eug...

Among all the 119 counties (cities, districts) in Shanxi province, China, there are 94 counties with coal resources, and 80% are resource-based mining cities. Since 2008, a number of small coal mines have been shut down due to the integration of coal resources in Shanxi Province, as well as merger and reorganization of large state-owned coal mining enterprises are under efficient operations. Th...

†Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Computation Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing, School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People’s Republic of China ‡Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China {Creighton Unive...

S. J. Fan, M. M. Cheung, A. Y. Ding, F. Y. Lee, Z. W. Qiao, J. Yang, and E. X. Wu Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Medical Imaging Center of the First Affiliated Hospital, Sch...

Parameter estimation and stabilisation for a one-dimensional wave equation with boundary output constant disturbance and non-collocated control Wei Guo* and Bao-Zhu Guo School of Information Technology and Management, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, China; Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100190, China; School of Mathematic...

One-to-one disjoint path covers on multi-dimensional tori Jing Li, Di Liu, Yuxing Yang & Jun Yuan a School of Applied Science, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China b School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China c College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan Normal University, XinXiang 453007, China Accepted author version post...

This Article contains errors in the affiliations for Xin Qian, Jiao Du and Caiyun Chen, who were incorrectly listed as affiliated to “Department of Respiratory Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, No. 32, South Renmin Road, Shiyan, Hubei, 442000, P.R. China”, “Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, 201-209 Hubin Road, Xiamen, Fujian, 361004, P.R. China” and “Department of Res...

This study examined the impact of the 2+2 Alternative Teacher Performance Appraisal System that has been implemented in Shanxi province in China. A mixed research design was used to evaluate the program. Six high schools and a total of 78 teachers (13 teachers in each school) in Shanxi province were selected. Three of the schools participated in the 2+2 program while another three served as the...

Arsenicosis is a serious environmental chemical disease in China mainly caused by drinking water from pump wells contaminated by high levels of arsenic. Chronic exposure of humans to high concentrations of arsenic in drinking water is associated with skin lesions, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, blackfoot disease, and high risk of cancers. Lead by the Ministry of Health of China, we ...