This paper provides new insight into kernel methods by using data selection. The kernel trick is used to select from the data a relevant subset forming a basis in a feature space F . Thus the selected vectors de,ne a subspace in F . Then, the data is projected onto this subspace where classical algorithms are applied. We show that kernel methods like generalized discriminant analysis (Neural Co...

EDWARD O. WILEY, PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, MATTHEW T. CRAIG, MATTHEW P. DAVIS, NANCY I. HOLCROFT, RICHARD L. MAYDEN & WM. LEO SMITH Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. E-mails: [email protected] (PC), matthewdavis...

Activation of chloride currents and release of internally sequestered Ca(2+) in airway smooth muscle have long been associated with excitation and contraction. Surprisingly, however, two recent publications (Deshpande DA, Wang WC, McIlmoyle EL, Robinett KS, Schillinger RM, An SS, Sham JS, Liggett SB. Nat Med 16: 1299-1304, 2010; Gallos G, Yim P, Chang S, Zhang Y, Xu D, Cook JM, Gerthoffer WT, E...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1289 I. THE NATURE AND COMPONENTS OF FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE RISKS THE RELATIONSHIPS POSE TO BOTH PARTIES .......... 1293 A. Components of Fiduciary Relationships .................................... 1293 B. While Fiduciaries’ Services Provide Benefits to Entrustors, the Services I...

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This paper studies companies that have a controlling shareholder. In particular, it examines the relationship between firm performance and its controlling shareholder’s personal loan. We present a model to identify two effects of a personal loan that is secured by stocks. The loan can be beneficial ex ante, because it relaxes the wealth constraint of controlling shareholders and allows firms to...