Extreme learning machine (ELM), used for the “generalized” single-hidden-layer feedforward networks (SLFNs), is a unified learning platform that can use a widespread type of feature mappings. In theory, ELM can approximate any target continuous function and classify any disjoint regions; in application, many experiment results have already demonstrated the good performance of ELM. In view of th...

Achilles tendinopathy is a common medical complaint. Achilles tendon injuries include acute tendinitis from overuse in two distinct anatomic areas. Acute tendinitis may turn chronic and may require surgical intervention. Achilles tendon rupture, although usually a result of trauma, may occur spontaneously. Medication including fluoroquinolone and corticosteroids can play a significant role in t...

Anchor Environmental, L.L.C. and The Berger Partnership are assisting the City of Mercer Island in Master Planning activities for Luther Burbank Park in Mercer Island, Washington. In the past, shoreline conditions have been evaluated for the purpose of visioning park improvements (Reid Middleton 2002) and addressing shoreline erosion (Parametrix 1991). However, the park’s shoreline has not been...

In this paper, we give Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities of the Jensen–Mercer for Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals. We prove integral identities, and with help these identities some other eminent inequalities, such as Jensen, Hölder, power mean obtain bounds difference newly obtained inequalities.

Language Models have been traditionally used in several fields like speech recognition or document retrieval. It was only recently when their use was extended to collaborative Recommender Systems. In this field, a Language Model is estimated for each user based on the probabilities of the items. A central issue in the estimation of such Language Model is smoothing, i.e., how to adjust the maxim...

a candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophy, and hereby certify that, in their opinion, it is worthy of acceptance. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For their unending support and encouragement, I would like to thank my family. My mother, who provided constant belief in my abilities to realize my goals, my mother-in-law, who insisted that " this is only temporary, " and my grandmother, who instilled in ...

During my time as Editor in Chief, I have tried to maintain some of the core features of manuscripts published by The Plant Cell, yet change some things for the better. I have held firm to “The Plant Cell brand” of manuscript as a trademark for the journal and resisted some very strong pressure to feature short, of-the-moment articles that lack the supporting evidence of longer articles. My rea...

Recent studies find that stocks with higher dispersion of analysts’ earnings forecasts have lower future returns. The phenomenon is popularly interpreted as evidence that stock prices reflect optimism in the presence of differences of opinions and short-sales constraints. This paper shows that there is also a negative relationship between forecast dispersion and a firm’s unexpected future earni...

This study provided the basic needs of parameters estimation for nonlinear growth model such as partial derivatives of each model, determination of initial values for each parameter and statistical tests of industrial usage. Twelve nonlinear growth models and its partial derivatives for oil palm yield growth are presented in this study. The parameters are estimated using the Marquardt iterative...

Two settings are considered: flows on finite dimensional Riemann-ian manifolds, and semiflows on Hilbert spaces with conditions consistent withthose in systems defined by dissipative parabolic PDEs. Under certain assump-tions on Lyapunov exponents and entropy, we prove the existence of geometricstructures called horseshoes; this implies in particular the presence of infinitely<l...