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Mining N-most Interesting Itemsets

Previous methods on mining association rules require users to input a minimum support threshold. However, there can be too many or too few resulting rules if the threshold is set inappropriately. It is diicult for end-users to nd the suitable threshold. In this paper, we propose a diierent setting in which the user does not provide a support threshold, but instead indicates the amount of result...

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Recent years have witnessed a growing interest, theoretically as well as experimentally, in space-variant polarization manipulation for obtaining vectorial beams. In general, vectorial beams are defined as beams having space-variant (transversely nonuniform) polarization state. In this lecture we present new methods for designing, realizing and analyzing nonuniformly polarized and partial polar...

Mining the Most Interesting Web Access Associations

Web access patterns can provide valuable information for website designers in making website-based communication more efficient. To extract interesting or useful web access patterns, we use data mining techniques which analyze historical web access logs. In this paper, we present an efficient approach to mine the most interesting web access associations, where the word "interesting" denotes pat...

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Placebos: our most effective therapy?

Placebos remain highly controversial therapies largely because of their widespread use in research as a comparator rather than a focus of analysis. While a recent systematic review of placebo versus no therapy arms in trials found no difference, the placebo effect in some areas of drug trial research is large and increasing. We attempt to explain this paradox and suggest how clinicians may use ...