In text management tasks, the dimensionality reduction becomes necessary to computation and interpretability of the results generated by machine learning algorithms. This paper describes a feature extraction method called semantic mapping. Semantic mapping, sparse random mapping and PCA are applied to self-organization of document collections using self-organizing map (SOM). The behaviors of th...

OBJECTIVE Women are particularly prone to stress with respect to living with HIV. Stress management behaviors can mediate the stress response and improve health outcomes in HIV-positive individuals. The purpose of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to examine stress and Transtheoretical Model (TTM) indicators of stress management behaviors in HIV-positive women. METHODS 126 HIV-positi...

Human motor behavior is constantly adapted through the process of error-based learning. When the motor system encounters an error, its estimate about the body and environment will change, and the next movement will be immediately modified to counteract the underlying perturbation. Here, we show that a second mechanism, use-dependent learning, simultaneously changes movements to become more simi...

We have analyzed the generalization performance of a student which slowly switches ensemble teachers. By calculating the generalization error analytically using statistical mechanics in the framework of on-line learning, we show that the dynamical behaviors of generalization error have the periodicity that is synchronized with the switching period and the behaviors differ with the number of ens...

evaluating the role of organization and management in appearing deviant workplace behaviors which expose organizational norms to variation and cause a threat for the well-being of the organization and its members is an important subject. the relevant researches have categorized these behaviors to various kinds such as individual and organizational deviance, constructive and destructive deviance...

Surveys are the primary information source about adolescents' health risk behaviors, but adolescents may not report their behaviors accurately. Survey data are used for formulating adolescent health policy, and inaccurate data can cause mistakes in policy creation and evaluation. The author used test-retest data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (United States, 2000) to compare adolescents' r...