Semi-continuous data arise in many applications where naturally-continuous data become contaminated by the data generating mechanism. The resulting data contain several values that are “too frequent”, and in that sense are a hybrid between discrete and continuous data. The main problem is that standard statistical methods, which are geared towards continuous or discrete data, cannot be applied ...

We consider semi-continuous network flow problems, that is, a class of network flow problems where some of the variables are restricted to be semi-continuous. We introduce the semi-continuous inflow set with variable upper bounds as a relaxation of general semi-continuous network flow problems. Two particular cases of this set are considered, for which we present complete descriptions of the co...

Existing environment mapping techniques include spherical mapping and cube mapping. These techniques have inherent flaws that cause sampling issues and aliasing. Continuous cube mapping is offered as an alternative environment mapping approach that effectively folds the cube onto the sphere, providing a better parameterization of cube mapping. We provide a hardware implementation.

The research reported here examined the relative effectiveness of semantic mapping, as an interactive pre-reading strategy, on reading comprehension of Iranian undergraduate students (non-EFL majors). It also examined whether there was an interaction between gender and the effect of teaching semantic mapping strategy on reading comprehension. The participants in this study consisted of 120 male...

Abstract In this paper, fixed point and coincidence results are presented for multivalued generalized φ-weak contractive mappings on complete metric spaces, where φ : [0, +∞) −→ [0, +∞) is a lower semicontinuous function with φ(0) = 0 and φ(t) > 0 for all t > 0. Our results extend previous results by Zhang and Song (2009), as well as by Rhoades (2001), Nadler (1969), and Daffer and Kaneko (1995).

Let X be a dcpo and let L be a complete lattice. The family σL(X) of all Scott continuous mappings from X to L is a complete lattice under pointwise order, we call it the L-fuzzy Scott structure on X. Let E be a dcpo. A mapping g : σL(E) −> M is called an LM-fuzzy possibility valuation of E if it preserves arbitrary unions. Denote by πLM(E) the set of all LM-fuzzy possibility valuations of E. T...

In this paper we generalize the notion of Semi-continuity and MS-continuity and go on to study Semi-compactness, Semi-cocompactness, Semi-stability and Semi-costability in a ditopological texture space. We also extends the notion of Semi-compactness and Semi-cocompactness to a ditopological texture space modulo an ideal [13].

Compared to fully-continuous HMMs, semi-continuous HMMs are more compact in size, require less data to train well and result in comparable recognition performance with much faster decoding speeds. Nevertheless, the use of semi-continuous HMMs in large vocabulary speech recognition systems has declined considerably in recent years. A significant factor that has contributed this is that systems t...

In this paper, the dynamics of multicellular chopper are considered. The model is described by a continuous time three--dimensional autonomous system. Some basic dynamical properties such as Poincar'e mapping, power spectrum and chaotic behaviors are studied. Analysis results show that this system has complex dynamics with some interesting characteristics.

BACKGROUND Manual mapping of laboratory data to Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) requires a major effort. Application of the LOINC mapping assistant RELMA V.6.6 can reduce the effort required for mapping. The goal of the paper is to perform a semi-automated mapping of Russian laboratory terms to LOINC. METHODS A semi-automated mapping of the 2563 terms from two clinics ...