Striving for better comunication - an audit

Striving for an Improved Audio Similarity Measure

In this submission to MIREX’07, we implement various modifications to the Algorithm G1C by Elias Pampalk which ranked first in last year’s MIREX AudioSim task. Although each of the modifications showed only minor effects in our experiments, their combination constantly outperformed the original algorithm in our automated tests. Therefore, we consider it worth submitting the resulting algorithm ...

Regenerative Medicine Research: striving to better serve the emerging field

Regenerative Medicine Research, previously published by BioMed Central, is now transferred to its new publisher, EDP Sciences. As the Editor-in-Chief, I am excited to announce the continuation of this new open access, online journal. It remains to publish research relating to both the fundamental and practical aspects of regenerative medicine, with a particular emphasis on translational studies...

Comunication-Efficient Algorithms for Statistical Optimization

We analyze two communication-efficient algorithms for distributed optimization in statistical settings involving large-scale data sets. The first algorithm is a standard averaging method that distributes the N data samples evenly to m machines, performs separate minimization on each subset, and then averages the estimates. We provide a sharp analysis of this average mixture algorithm, showing t...

Medical audit--better later than never.

Any better? Outcome measures in medical audit.

the legal proceedings over the difference between accreditation within the United Kingdom and specialist certification in the European Community. The joint committee had correctly advised Dr Goldstein that he had fulfilled the training requirements of the medical directives of the European Community, and could apply to the General Medical Council for the certificate of specialist training, a qu...