We propose a hybrid hierarchical classifier that solves multiclass problems in high dimensional space using a set of binary classifiers arranged as a tree in the space of classes. It incorporates good aspects of both the binary hierarchical classifier (BHC) and the margin tree algorithm, and is effective over a large range of (sample size, input dimensionality) values. Two aspects of the propos...

The treatment of housing in the definition of income used to measure poverty makes a big difference to who is counted as poor. Both the Before Housing Costs (BHC) and After Housing Costs (AHC) measures in current use in the UK pose problems. We compare BHC and AHC income with an alternative measure, overcoming their respective flaws by including in income the difference between the estimated va...

Understanding youths' awareness and use of behavioral health services is important for improving services and engagement. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with students, parents, and teachers/staff in an urban area to understand awareness and use of a school's Native-tailored and -staffed school-based behavioral health center (NT-BHC) and community-based services. Results showed overw...

PURPOSE The standard approach of using tumor doubling time to assess growth delay may not accurately represent tumor response, especially if the growth rates are not constant. Therefore, we developed a method to compare the antitumor activities of different treatments in xenograft experiments that uses the entire growth curve to estimate nonconstant growth rates. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN A Bayesia...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of dual-energy CT (DECT) for quantifying iodine using a soft tissue-mimicking phantom across various DECT acquisition parameters and dual-source CT (DSCT) scanners. A phantom was constructed with plastic tubes containing soft tissue-mimicking materials with known iodine concentrations (0-20 mg/mL). Experiments were performed on two DSCT s...

Background: Greengram the most important pulse crops in India suffers a lot due to infestation of many lepidopteran caterpillars mainly at its reproductive stage. Spilosoma obliqua Walk. Arctiidae, Lepidoptera commonly called Bihar hairy caterpillar (BHC) is categorized as devastating. Methods: Field efficacy nine new generation popular insecticides were tested coastal saline zone West Bengal a...

organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides are likely to pollute lipid-containing food sources, like milk (3-5% fat), owing to their lipophilicity, thereby jeopardizing the benefits of milk as a health food. pesticide load in bovine milk may be from the leaching of pesticides persisting in the adipose tissue of the animal, or through direct contamination during milking or improper handling o...