OBJECTIVES Our objective is to integrate high performance computing (HPC) technologies and bioacoustics data-mining capabilities by offering a MATLAB-based toolbox called Raven-X. Raven-X will provide a hardware-independent solution, for processing large acoustic datasets the toolkit will be available to the community at no cost. This goal will be achieved by leveraging prior work done by Dugan...

With the growth of the Linked Data Web, time-efficient approaches for computing links between data sources have become indispensable. Yet, in many cases, determining the right specification for a link discovery problem is a tedious task that must still be carried out manually. In this article we present RAVEN, an approach for the semiautomatic determination of link specifications. Our approach ...

We compared the relationships among action-control beliefs, intellective skill, and actual school performance in samples of children from Tokyo (n 1⁄4 817, grades 2–6), Los Angeles (n 1⁄4 657), and West Berlin (n 1⁄4 517). Although these samples have been utilised in other comparative studies we have conducted, the role and function of intellective skill, as measured by the Raven Progressive Ma...

This thesis presents the development and implementation of approximate dynamic programming methods used to manage multi-agent systems. The purpose of this thesis is to develop an architectural framework and theoretical methods that enable an autonomous mission system to manage real-time multi-agent operations. To meet this goal, we begin by discussing aspects of the real-time multi-agent missio...

Determining why normative values for a test may change is not easy. For instance, intelligence test scores have been changing at a dramatic rate, though the cause remains unclear (Flynn, 1999; Raven, 2000). Each time an IQ test is renormed, the same level of cognitive capacity is associated with a lower score. The ability that would have produced an IQ of 100 two generations ago would now only ...

PURPOSE To investigate the existence of correlations between the performance of children in auditory temporal tests (Frequency Pattern and Gaps in Noise--GIN) and IQ, attention, memory and age measurements. METHOD Fifteen typically developing individuals between the ages of 7 to 12 years and normal hearing participated in the study. Auditory temporal processing tests (GIN and Frequency Patter...

Background Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychological problem during childhood. This study aimed to evaluate multiple intelligences profiles of children with ADHD in comparison with non-ADHD. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional descriptive analytical study was done on 50 children of 6-13 years old in two groups of with and without ADHD. Children with ...

This experiment examined the mediation of the stereotype threat effect and explored the relationship of 2 different types of stereotype threat: stereotype threat–specific (threat that results specifically from the testing environment) and stereotype threat–general (a global sense of threat that individuals carry across situations) on Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices test performance. As pred...