Contemporary Approaches to Improving Citrus Cultivars

Contemporary Approaches to Concept Development

In the past several years, developmental researchers have begun to transform the vantage points from which we study concepts and their development. This essay begins with a brief and selective critique of two major psychological theories concerning the structure, representation, and development of concepts (the classical view and the prototype view). This is followed by a discussion of fundamen...

Contemporary Approaches to Artificial General Intelligence

1 A Brief History of AGI The vast bulk of the AI field today is concerned with what might be called " narrow AI " – creating programs that demonstrate intelligence in one or another specialized area, such as chess-playing, medical diagnosis, automobile-driving, algebraic calculation or mathematical theorem-proving. Some of these narrow AI programs are extremely successful at what they do. The A...

Contemporary approaches to hyperemesis during pregnancy.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) affects 90% of pregnant women and its impact is often underappreciated. Hyperemesis gravidarum, the most severe end of the spectrum, affects 0.5-2% of pregnancies. The pathogenesis of this condition remains obscure and its management has largely been empirical. This review aims to provide an update on advances in pregnancy hyperemesis foc...

Machine Learning Approaches to Improving

This thesis reports the investigations into the task of phone-level pronunciation error detection, the performance of which is heavily affected by the imbalanced distribution of the classes in a manually annotated data set of non-native English (Read Aloud responses from the TOEFL Junior Pilot assessment). In order to address problems caused by this extreme class imbalance, two machine learning...

Law and Economics: Contemporary Approaches