Please cite this article in press as: Malleson, N., microsimulation. Computers, Environment and U In recent years, criminologists have become interested in understanding crime variations at progressively finer spatial scales, right down to individual streets or even houses. To model at these fine spatial scales, and to better account for the dynamics of the crime system, agent-based models of c...

Rasch analysis was used to illustrate the usefulness of item-level analyses for evaluating a common therapy outcome measure of general clinical distress, the Symptom Checklist-90Revised (SCL-90-R, Derogatis, 1994). Using complementary therapy research samples, we found that the instrument’s 5-point rating scale exceeded clients’ ability to make reliable discriminations and could be improved by ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) severity is evaluated by neurologist experts by means of several tests. One of them is the Movement Disorder Society–Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (MDS–UPDRS). The main hypothesis is that changes in the speech of PD patients reflect changes in their neurological state. In this study we use the Gaussian Mixture Model–Universal Background Model approach to trac...

The main question of this conference is why there has recently been both high inflation and high unemployment in the U.S. economy. The purpose of this paper is to consider this question within the context of a macroeconometric model. Much of the literature on inflation and unemployment since Phillips wrote his classic paper [lo] has centered around the question of whether the relationship betwe...

A dynamic model Whole-Arm Dexterous Manipulation In The Plane S.L. Yeap J.C. Trinkle Dept. of CS syeap@cs. tamu.edu Dept. of CS trink@cs . t amu.edu Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-31 12 ' of a dexterous manipulation system can be used for predicting the feasibility of a manipulation plan generated under the quasistatic assumption but executed under dynamic conditions. Contact f...

the measurement of rts amounts measures a relationship between inputs and outputs in a production structure. there are many different ways to calculate rts in primal or dual space. but in more realistic cases, governments usually intervene on dmu’s behavior as regulatory agency, this clearly represent a set of limitations and restrictions on behaviors of dmus, so very few decisions in dmus are ...

Abstract. In the wireless world human perspectives play an important role in understanding and developing 3G and beyond mobile and wireless applications. For this we need to develop some reference models in order to best describe the requirements in developing and deploying future generation multimedia mobile and wireless applications. In this paper it first comes up with an introduction of a r...

The main question of this conference is why there has recently been both high inflation and high unemployment in the U.S. economy. The purpose of this paper is to consider this question within the context of a macroeconometric model. Much of the literature on inflation and unemployment since Phillips wrote his classic paper [10] has centered around the question of whether the relationship betwe...

The \Map in the Head" metaphor states that knowledge of large-scale space is isomorphic to the information stored in a graphical map: That is, corresponding operations are used to store and retrieve information. The purpose of this essay is to look carefully at the \Map in the Head" metaphor to see the limits of its applicability. There are two types of experimental results that are diicult to ...

We describe a shape-based chamfer matching method for recovering 3D hand pose using a monocular camera. Although some variants of chamfer matching methods incorporated edge direction information, of which the direction term is set empirically, so they may fail in different application scenario. In this paper, a collaborated directional chamfer matching (CDCM) is proposed. The direction term can...