It is not difficult to derive place assimilation within the framework of previous theories such as classical generative theory, feature geometry, or underspecification theory. This is also true in Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). For instance, if there is a markedness constraint of the type *HETERORGANICCLUSTER, and faithfulness constraints for place of articulation are ranked bel...

Novel Approach for Fingerprint Recognition Using Sparse Representation Rohit Thanki PhD Research Scholar, Faculty of Technology & Engineering, C U Shah University, Wadhwan City Email: [email protected] Komal Borisagar Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication, Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot Email: [email protected] ------------------------------...

The present article addresses reliability issues in light of recent studies and debates focused on psychometrics versus datametrics terminology and reliability generalization (RG) introduced by Vacha-Haase. The purpose here was not to moderate arguments presented in these debates but to discuss multiple perspectives on score reliability and how they may affect research practice, editorial polic...

In this paper, a mathematical theory of learning is proposed that has many parallels with information theory. We consider Vapnik’s General Setting of Learning in which the learning process is defined to be the act of selecting a hypothesis in response to a given training set. Such hypothesis can, for example, be a decision boundary in classification, a set of centroids in clustering, or a set o...

There are fundamental reasons as to why there should exist a reformulation of quantum mechanics which does not refer to a classical spacetime manifold. It follows as a consequence that quantum mechanics as we know it is a limiting case of a more general nonlinear quantum theory, with the nonlinearity becoming significant at the Planck mass/energy scale. This nonlinearity is responsible for a dy...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare digital and conventional radiography in determining the working length of dilacerated canals.methods: thirty nine human extracted single-rooted teeth with root curvature more than 35 degrees were included in this study. after access preparation, a file was inserted into the canal and advanced until the file tip was visualized at the foramen. wi...