In this paper we combine a logistic regression student model with an exercise selection procedure. As opposed to the body of prior work on strategies for selecting practice opportunities, we are working on an assumption of a finite amount of opportunities to teach the student. Our goal is to prescribe activities that would maximize the amount learned as evaluated by expected post-test success. ...

Using proteins with both disordered and ordered regions collected through literature searches and database scanning, we assembled a set of 24-residue long segments centered on their order/disorder boundaries as well as a larger set of non-boundary segments consisting of either order or disorder. We analyzed position-specific amino acid compositions around the order/disorder boundaries and found...

8 The main challenge of facial landmark localization in real-world application is that the large changes of head pose and facial expressions cause substantial image appearance variations. To avoid high dimensional facial shape regression, we propose a hierarchical pose regression approach, estimating the head rotation, face components, and facial landmarks hierarchically. The regression process...

In the context of polytomous regression, as with any generalized linear model, robustness issues are well documented. Existing robust estimators designed to protect against misclassification, but do not outlying covariates. It is shown that this can have a much bigger impact on estimation and testing than misclassification alone. To address problem, two new introduced: model-type estimator an o...