Ensembles of randomized decision trees, usually referred to as random forests, are widely used for classification and regression tasks in machine learning and statistics. Random forests achieve competitive predictive performance and are computationally efficient to train and test, making them excellent candidates for real-world prediction tasks. The most popular random forest variants (such as ...

Abstract Expressionism has been influenced heavily by the popular theory of America’s undying, progressive spirit, originally conceived Frederick Jackson Turner and given its most potent form in Western films. Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” was embodied stories John Wayne other cowboy heroes taming supposed edges civilization. The mythic West as constructed these films cemented American identity on...

Although chemotherapy of tumours has scored successes, drug resistance remains the major cause of death of cancer patients. Initial treatment often leaves residual disease, from which the tumour regrows. Eventually, most tumours become resistant to all available chemotherapy. I call this pan-resistance to distinguish it from multi-drug resistance, usually describing resistance caused by upregul...

UNLABELLED Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) is the U.S.A.'s largest commercial fishery, with an annual catch of over 1 million tons. During pollock processing, the skins are discarded or made into fish meal, despite their value for gelatin production. The absence of gelatin-processing facilities in Alaska necessitates drying of the skins before transport to decrease the moisture content, ...

From a cognitivist standpoint, one main interest of psychology is the study of representations of the human mind as they mediate how people react to stimuli in their environment (Palmer, 1978). This can explain why two people that encounter the same stimulus can behave in very different ways (Chomsky, 1959). For example, an art historian viewing a Jackson Pollock painting may exclaim " this is ...