The k-nearest neighbours (kNN) is a simple but effective method for classification. Its major drawbacks are (1) low efficiency, and (2) dependency on the selection of a “good value” for k. In this paper, we propose a novel similarity-based data reduction method (SBModel) together with three variants aimed at overcoming these shortcomings. Our method constructs a similarity-based model for the d...

Tesar’s (2014) notion of output-drivenness is an attempt at characterizing nonopaque phonological mappings in terms of a notion of phonological similarity between underlying and surface levels. Tesar defines phonological similarity concretely in terms of segment strings and correspondence relations. Magri (2017) instead defines similarity axiomatically through an inequality on faithfulness cons...

The prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (serum retinol [SR] < 20 microg/dl) in children from one to five years of age in the Philippines rose from 35.8% to 38% between 1993 and 1998, despite a twice-yearly universal vitamin A capsule distribution program. The Philippines 1998 National Nutrition Survey, with one-time SR measurements from 11,620 children from one to four years of age, collected ov...

The Sex-Ratio (SR) phenomenon is associated with the X chromosome of many species of Drosophila. Males carrying SR transmit predominantly sperm bearing the X chromosome. SR, therefore, has a very significant advantage in segregation. This paper provides an experimental analysis of the role of virility selection in preventing the fixation of SR. SR males are found to suffer substantial virility ...

The aim of the present study was to prepare and characterize the Sustained release matrix tablets of Ranolazine using Kollidon® SR. Kollidon® SR is a polyvinyl acetate based excipient. Three different strengths i.e 375mg, 500mg and 750mg of ranolazine SR tablets were prepared by direct compression method and by using common blend. The influence of compression force was studied on the dissolutio...

Abstract. In this letter, the concept of set-membership filtering (SMF) is extended to the affine projection algorithm with selective regressors (SR-APA), a novel set-membership SR-APA (SM-SR-APA) is established. The proposed algorithm exhibits superior performance with significant reduction in overall computational complexity due to data-selective step size. The usefulness of the proposed algo...

The task of identifying synonymous relations and objects, or Synonym Resolution (SR), is critical for high-quality information extraction. The bulk of previous SR work assumed strong domain knowledge or hand-tagged training examples. This paper investigates SR in the context of unsupervised information extraction, where neither is available. The paper presents a scalable, fully-implemented syst...