The dataset used in estimation and simulation was constructed from several sources. Table A1 provides an overview of the main variables used in the analysis. The sample of individuals comes from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS). The NELS is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of U.S. 8th graders in 1988. Interviews were conducted in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 200...

A smart physical-parameter-based system identification (SI) method has been proposed in the previous paper (Ikeda et al., 2014a). This method deals with time-variant nonparametric identification of natural frequencies and modal damping ratios using AutoRegressive eXogenous (ARX) models and has been applied to high-rise buildings during the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake. In thi...

Recommender Systems have been successfully deployed in a variety of e-Commerce application scenarios. Customer selections of services or standard goods are supported as well as product configuration tasks. Little research has however been done on the application of Recommender Systems outside the virtual domain in real-world stationary trade. This surprises as on a business side, brick-and-mort...

In this paper we present a method to group adjectives according to their meaning, as a first step towards the automatic identification of adjectival scales. We discuss the properties of adjectival scales and of groups of semantically related adjectives and how they imply sources of linguistic knowledge in text corpora. We describe how our system exploits this linguistic knowledge to compute a m...

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We briefly describe recent research on the automatic identification of quasi-experimental designs, a family of methods used in the medical, social, and economic sciences to discover causal knowledge from observational data. These methods are widely used for manual discovery, but recent advances in knowledge representation and databases have made it possible to automate aspects of their use. We ...

A Σ-protocol for proving equality of the discrete logarithm of two pairs of numbers is presented and used in an electronic voting scheme originally proposed in [CGS97]. Further, the notion of zero knowledge is introduced and a modified (1-bit challenge) version of Schnorr’s identification scheme is shown to be zero knowledge. 1 Proving Discrete Logarithm Equality

An important key to reconstructing a three-dimensional object depicted by a two-dimensional line drawing projection is face identification. Identification of edge circuits in a 2D projection corresponding to actual faces of a 3D object becomes complex when the projected object is in wireframe representation. This representation is commonly encountered in drawings made during the conceptual desi...

Several factors may contribute to the structural failure of cast and ductile iron water mains, the most important of which is considered to be corrosion. The ANSI/AWWA C105/A21.5–99 10-point scoring (10-P) method is commonly used to predict corrosivity potential of a given soil sample using certain soil properties. The 10-P and other scoring methods use binary logic to classify the soil either ...

In cognitive radio (CR) technology, the trend of sensing is no longer to only detect the presence of active primary users. A large number of applications demand for more comprehensive knowledge on primary user behaviors in spatial, temporal, and frequency domains. To satisfy such requirements, we study the statistical relationship among primary users by introducing a Bayesian network (BN) based...