We have constructed a poker classification system which makes informed betting decisions based upon three defining features extracted while playing poker: hand value, risk, and aggressiveness. The system is implemented as a poker player agent, and as such, the goals of the classifier are not only to correctly determine whether each hand should be folded, called, or raised, but to win as many ch...

in this study we investigate voice productions of normal speakers and patients with varying vocal fold adduction deficiencies using a noninvasive method to measure spatial vibrations of the larynx. the current version accv4 of our acceleration sensor device was used. The study’s primary goal is to find out whether lesions of vocal folds lead to additional spatial vibration modes compared to a n...

soil and water salinity is a major constraint in arid and semi-arid regions. in order to study the impact of water salinity on physiological characteristics and dry matter production of six linseed genotypes, a 4-replicate factorial randomized complete block pot experiment was conducted. salinity consisted of four levels: 0 (control), 35 (low salinity), 70 (intermediate salinity) and 105 mm (se...

introduction: leukemia is a malignant disorder resulting from clonal proliferation of lymphoid or myeloid precursors with arrested maturation. it has been shown recently that telomers and telomerase activity are involved in the control of cell proliferation, regulation of cell senescence in the most somatic cells, and unlimited proliferation capacity of the malignant cells including leukemic ce...

Molecular chaperones are cellular machines that facilitate protein folding. The crystal structures of HtpG, the Escherichia coli homolog of hsp90, reported in this issue (Shiau et al., 2006) together with the recently published structures of an hsp90-cochaperone complex (Ali et al., 2006) and an hsp90-client protein complex (Vaughan et al., 2006), reveal exciting insights into the hsp90 reactio...

Sensitive profile searches and fold recognition were used to predict the structures of two yeast RNase P/MRP proteins. Rpp1p, which is one of the subunits common to eukaryotes and archaea, is predicted to adopt the seven-stranded TIM-barrel fold found in PHP phosphoesterases. Pop3p, initially thought to be one of the RNase P/MRP subunits unique to yeast, has been assigned the L7Ae/L30e fold. Th...

in this paper, first, an initial feature vector for vocal fold pathology diagnosis is proposed. then, for optimizing the initial feature vector, a genetic algorithm is proposed. some experiments are carried out for evaluating and comparing the classification accuracies which are obtained by the use of the different classifiers (ensemble of decision tree, discriminant analysis and k-nearest neig...

We compute and tabulate the Clesbsch–Gordan coefficients of the SU(6) ⊃ SU(3) × SU(2) product 56 ⊗ 56, which are relevant to the nonrelativistic spin-flavor symmetry of the lightest baryons. Under the assumption that the largest representation in this product, the 2695, gives rise to operators in a chiral expansion that produce numerically small effects, we obtain a set of relations among the m...