“O sofrimento vai ter fim?”

What is L TER ?

The LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH program (L TEA) is a network of field sites used to study structure and process in natural landscapes at temporal and spatial scales of decades or centuries. The ten sites now funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Biotic Systems and Resources, include forest, prairie, desert, and aquatic environments. Major questions are addressed at each site...

Distribution of complexities in the Vai script

In the paper, we analyze the distribution of complexities in the Vai script, an indigenous syllabic writing system from Liberia. It is found that the uniformity hypothesis for complexities fails for this script. The models using Poisson distribution for the number of components and hyper-Poisson distribution for connections provide good fits in the case of the Vai script.

The UK FIM+FAM: development and evaluation

Surprising Results of Trie-based FIM Algorithms

Trie is a popular data structure in frequent itemset mining (FIM) algorithms. It is memory-efficient, and allows fast construction and information retrieval. Many trie-related techniques can be applied in FIM algorithms to improve efficiency. In this paper we propose new techniques for fast management, but more importantly we scrutinize the well-known ones especially those which can be employed...

Validation of FIM-MDS crosswalk conversion algorithm.

In this study, we performed a validation analysis of a crosswalk that converts Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores to Minimum Data Set (MDS) scores and vice versa in order to achieve score compatibility. Data from 2,130 patients were obtained from the Department of Veteran Affairs' Austin Automation Center. The conversion algorithm was tested at the (1) individual patient level, (2) cl...