A novel fusion approach for Language Identification called Languagedependent Fusion (LDF) is presented in this paper. A fusion system is a hybrid system which fuses the results from several individual sub-systems which utilize varied features, models, and/or classifiers. In LDF, instead of applying single fixed weighting coefficients to each sub-system, which happens in conventional approach su...

The author presented descriptive statistics for 937 reliability coefficients for various reliability methods (e.g., alpha) and test types (e.g., intelligence). He compared the average reliability coefficients with the reliability standards that are suggested by experts and found that most average reliabilities were less than ideal. Correlations showed that over the past several decades there ha...

Atrial fibrillation is an identified risk factor for ischemic strokes. Thus, the dynamics of heart rate under fibrillation might provide a useful predictor for strokes. The complex, nonlinear and multiscale nature of the heart rate calls for the use of powerful signal processing techniques. We explored the application of a novel tool, the scattering transform, to discriminate and predict ischem...

PURPOSE To analyze the usefulness of the weight gain/height gain ratio from birth to two and three years of age as a predictive risk indicator of excess weight at preschool age. METHODS The weight and height/length of 409 preschool children at daycare centers were measured according to internationally recommended rules. The weight values and body mass indices of the children were transformed ...

In this paper, we study the estimation for generalized partially linear single-index models, where the systematic component in the model has a flexible semi-parametric form with a general link function. We propose an efficient and practical approach to estimate the single-index link function, single-index coefficients as well as the coefficients in the linear component of the model. The estimat...

The SO(5)⊃ SO(3) spherical harmonics form a natural basis for expansion of nuclear collective model angular wave functions. They underlie the recently-proposed algebraic method for diagonalization of the nuclear collective model Hamiltonian in an SU(1, 1)× SO(5) basis. We present a computer code for explicit construction of the SO(5)⊃ SO(3) spherical harmonics and use them to compute the Clebsc...

I USE the term covariants to include invariants, and I write particularly concerning lists of covariants (groundforms) of the binary quintic and sextic, those of quantics of lower degree being few and well known. When the weight of a covariant is spoken of in this article, it must be understood to mean the weight of its first term or "source." The symbol 5ft will denote that covariant of the qu...

We characterize the angular polyspectra, of arbitrary order, associated with isotropic fields defined on the sphere S = { (x, y, z) : x + y + z = 1 } . Our techniques rely heavily on group representation theory, and specifically on the properties of Wigner matrices and Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. The findings of the present paper constitute a basis upon which one can build formal procedures fo...

GLh(n) × GLh′(m)-covariant (hh)-bosonic (or (hh)-fermionic) algebras Ahh′±(n,m) are built in terms of the corresponding Rh and Rh′-matrices by contracting the GLq(n) × GLq±1(m)-covariant q-bosonic (or q-fermionic) algebras A q± (n,m), α = 1, 2. When using a basis of A q± (n,m) wherein the annihilation operators are contragredient to the creation ones, this contraction procedure can be carried o...

Many non-Abelian finite subgroups of SU(3) have been used to explain the flavor structure of the Standard Model. In order to systematize and classify successful models, a detailed knowledge of their mathematical structure is necessary. In this paper we shall therefore look closely at the series of finite non-Abelian groups known as ∆(6n), its smallest members being S3 (n = 1) and S4 (n = 2). Fo...