This is an extended version of the manuscript Torsten Hothorn, Peter Bühlmann, Thomas Kneib, Mattthias Schmid and Benjamin Hofner (2010), Model-based Boosting 2.0. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 11, 2109 – 2113; http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v11/hothorn10a.html. We describe version 2.0 of the R add-on package mboost. The package implements boosting for optimizing general risk function...

Semantics and Memory Semantic Composition Inspired by Quantum Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 William Blacoe Expansion-by-Analogy: A Vector Symbolic Approach to Semantic Search . . . 54 Trevor Cohen, Dominic Widdows, and Thomas Rindflesch Subadditivity of Episodic Memory States: A Complementarity Approach . . . . 67 Jacob Denolf A Vector Field Approach to Lexical Semantics. . . . . . ...

The n-cube graph is the graph on the vertex set of ntuples of 0s and 1s, with two vertices joined by an edge if and only if the n-tuples differ in exactly one component. We compute the Smith group of this graph, or, equivalently, the elementary divisors of an adjacency matrix of the graph. ∗This work was partially supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (#204181 to Peter Sin).

On June 28 th 2005, an agreement was reached amongst the ITER parties on the selection of the European Site of Cadarache in France. As consequence, the ITER generic site safety assessment had to be adapted to the French requirements in order to initiate the licensing process. It is precisely in this point that Europe has been working through the European ITER Site Studies programme. The main ob...

The key factor of component based software development is component composition technology. A Component interaction graph is used to describe the interrelation of components. Drawing a complete component interaction graph (CIG) provides an objective basis and technical means for making the testing outline .Although many researches have focused on this subject, the quality of system that is comp...

In this paper a new interactionistic model of mental causation is developed. By analysing the results of physics and neuroscience it is shown that the macroscopic cerebral activity and the resulting behavioural output is not strictly determined. This opens up the possibility that a non-physical mind can influence which of the physically allowed brain states is realised. Most models of mental ca...

Peter Bannister was born in England, completed a B.Sc. in botany at Nottingham University and a Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen, on the water relations of heath plants. This combination of ecology and physiology was somewhat novel at the time, and taught him to tread carefully along the narrow line between supervisors in opposing camps. Research on the water relations, resistance to drought...

Photograph published with kind permission of the family of Peter Wason.

The topic of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) started for us at Nottingham in the early summer of 1972. During a discussion with one of my graduate students, Peter Grannell and my post-doc Dr Allan Garroway, concerning multiple-pulse line narrowing experiments in solids, the idea occurred to me to use the line narrowing technique as a means of effectively removing dipolar interactions in a mate...