It has been widely recognised that the diierence between the level of abstraction of the formulation of a query (by example) and that of the desired result (usually an image with certain semantics) calls for the use of learning methods that try to bridge this gap. Cox et al. have proposed a Bayesian method to learn the user's preferences during each query. Cox et al.'s system, PicHunter, 1 is d...

Actuaries and demographers have a long tradition of using collateral data to improve mortality estimates. Three main approaches have been used to accomplish the improvement — mortality laws, model life tables, and relational methods. The present paper introduces a regression model that incorporates all of the beneficial principles from each of these approaches. The model is demonstrated on mort...

The forestry extension method is a service system that helps the community, especially farmers and communities around forest, in education, knowledge, implementation of techniques, methods utilizing preserving forest resources. study aimed to determine forms Tompobulu District analyze effect learning increasing knowledge skills Maros District. Data analysis was carried out using qualitative des...

Ich versichere, daß ich die Arbeit ohne fremde Hilfe und ohne Benutzung anderer als der angegebenen Quellen angefertigt habe und daß die Arbeit in gleicher oderähnlicher Form noch keiner anderen Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen hat und von dieser als Teil einer Prüfungsleistung angenommen wurde. Alle Ausführungen, die wörtlich oder sinngemäßübernommen wurden, sind als solche gekennzeichnet. Granular ...

1. This note summarizes a paper [4] to appear in full elsewhere. It presents an algorithm for the minimization of a general (not necessarily differentiable) convex function. Its central idea is the construction of descent directions as projections of the origin onto the convex hull of previously calculated subgradients as long as satisfactory progress can be made. Using projection to obtain a d...

Background: Hamstring tendons are secondary hip extensors. Their harvest for graft in anterior cruciate ligament(ACL) reconstruction may create deleterious effect on hip extension strength. This is of particular importance in sportsthat need powerful hip extension force like climbing and sprinting. Due to scarcity of a comprehensive study in thisarea, we designed this prospect...

An extension for classi cation methods in order to process time-dependent data is introduced. It is based on the detection of transitions from one steady state to another one by examination of the time derivatives of classi cation vectors. The method is called Early Transition Detection. It is shown that it can be used in conjunction with a number of common classi cation methods like SIMCA or A...