Eric Postma Computer Science, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands In this paper, we question the necessity of levels of expert-guided abstraction in learning hard, statistically neutral classification tasks. We focus on two tasks, date calculation and parity-12, that are claimed to require intermediate levels of abstraction that must be defined by a human expert. We challenge this claim by...

The googly amplitudes in gauge theory are computed by using the off shell MHV vertices with the newly proposed rules of Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten. The result is in agreement with the previously well-known results. In particular we also obtain a simple result for the all negative but one positive helicity amplitude when one of the external line is off shell.

BACKGROUND Previous reviews have focussed on the rationale for employing the stepped wedge design (SWD), the areas of research to which the design has been applied and the general characteristics of the design. However these did not focus on the statistical methods nor addressed the appropriateness of sample size methods used.This was a review of the literature of the statistical methodology us...

August 29, 2013 Version 0.0.6 Date 2012-03-28 Title Power and sample size calculation for survival analysis of epidemiological studies Author Weiliang Qiu , Jorge Chavarro , Ross Lazarus , Bernard Rosner , Jing Ma . Maintainer Weiliang Qiu <stwxq@ch...

BACKGROUND Sample size planning for longitudinal data is crucial when designing mediation studies because sufficient statistical power is not only required in grant applications and peer-reviewed publications, but is essential to reliable research results. However, sample size determination is not straightforward for mediation analysis of longitudinal design. METHODS To facilitate planning th...

In this contribution, we introduce higher spin Dirac operators, i.e. a specific class of differential operators in Clifford analysis of several vector variables, motivated by equations from theoretical physics. In particular, the higher spin Dirac operator in three vector variables will be explicitly constructed, starting from a description of the so-called twisted Rarita-Schwinger operator.

With the increase in circuit performance (higher speeds) and density (smaller feature size) in deep submicrometer (DSM) designs, interconnect parasitic effects are increasingly becoming more important. This paper first surveys the state of the art in parasitic extraction for resistance, capacitance, and inductance. The paper then covers other related issues such as interconnect modeling, model ...

Abstract Industrial collaborative robotics is an enabling technology and one of the main drivers Industry 4.0 in industrial assembly. It allows a safe physical human-machine interaction with aim improving flexibility, operator’s work conditions, process performance at same time. In this regard, assembly most interesting useful applications human-robot collaboration. Most these systems arise fro...

in this paper, a new combined power and refrigeration cycle is proposed, which combines the rankin power cycle and the ejector refrigeration cycle. this combined cycle produces both power output and refrigeration output simultaneously. this cycle is driven by the flue gas of gas turbines, industrial waste heats, solar energy and geothermal energy. an exergy analysis is performed to guide the th...

Quality of service based on distributed systems must be preserved throughout all stages of life cycle. The stage in which this feature is critical is in stage planning of system capacity. Because this is an estimate, the traditional approach is based on the use of queues for capacity calculation. This paper proposes the use of Ising traditional model to capacity study.