The compound {Fe(pmd)[Ag(CN)2][Ag2(CN)3]} (pmd=pyrimidine) was synthesized and characterized. Magnetic, calorimetric and single crystal visible spectroscopic studies demonstrate the occurrence of a two-step high-spin (HS) right arrow over left arrow low-spin (LS) transition. The critical temperatures are T(c1)=185 and T(c2)=148 K. Each step involves approximately 50 % of the iron centers, with ...

In this paper, we present preliminary results on applying a comparison-based framework to the task of pronunciation scoring. The comparison-based system works by aligning a student’s utterance with a teacher’s utterance via dynamic time warping (DTW). Features that describe the degree of mis-alignment are extracted from the aligned path and the distance matrix. We focus on a dataset in Levantin...

Standard forecasting criteria like the mean square error (MSE) compare point forecasts or a location parameter of the forecasting distribution with actual observations. Such criteria are less suited to comparing forecasts of volatile time series. Therefore we use the average predictive ordinate (APOC) criterion which evaluates the ordinate of the predictive distribution. Using the comparison to...

This study attempts to elucidate bed bug behavior in response to host cues and aggregation cues from conspecifics. Both fed and unfed bed bugs were evaluated to determine differences in behavior with regard to their circadian activities. Arena bioassays were conducted to determine the bed bug’s ability to locate a host from different distances and if the antennae were essential for host locatio...

T HE THEORY developed in the statistical literature for the method of k-means can be applied to the study of optimal k-level vector quantizers. In this paper, I describe some of this theory, including a consistency theorem (Section II) and a central lim it theorem (Section IV) for k-means cluster centers. These results help to explain the behavior of optimal vector quantizers constructed from l...

Unraveling functional and ancestral relationships between proteins as well as structure prediction procedures require powerful protein alignment methods. This paper describes the use of fuzzy alignments when matching protein structures. The method use mean-field annealing optimization of fuzzy alignment variables, based on a cost expressed in terms of distances between aligned atoms and of gaps...

We consider the problem of semi-supervised regression when the predictor variables are drawn from an unknown manifold. A simple approach to this problem is to first use both the labeled and unlabeled data to estimate the manifold geodesic distance between pairs of points, and then apply a k nearest neighbor regressor based on these distance estimates. We prove that given sufficiently many unlab...

We investigated the bat defence reactions of three species of moths (Gynaephora groenlandica, Gynaephora rossi (Lymantriidae) and Psychophora sabini (Geometridae)) in the Canadian Arctic archipelago. Since these moths inhabit the Arctic tundra and, therefore, are most probably spatially isolated from bats, their hearing and associated defensive reactions are probably useless and would therefore...

Path integration, a component of spatial navigation, is the process used to determine position information on the basis of information about distance and direction travelled derived from self-motion cues. Following on from studies in the animal literature that seem to support the role of the hippocampal formation in path integration, this facility was investigated in humans with focal brain les...

Minimization of the Euclidean distance between output distribution and Dirac delta functions as a performance criterion is known to match the distribution of system output with delta functions. In the analysis of the algorithm developed based on that criterion and recursive gradient estimation, it is revealed in this paper that the minimization process of the cost function has two gradients wit...