In this paper, we present a novel two-stage metric learning algorithm. We first map each learning instance to a probability distribution by computing its similarities to a set of fixed anchor points. Then, we define the distance in the input data space as the Fisher information distance on the associated statistical manifold. This induces in the input data space a new family of distance metric ...

We study two-stage choice procedures in which the decision maker first preselects the alternatives whose values according to a criterion pass a menu-dependent threshold and then maximizes a second criterion to narrow the selection further. This framework overlaps with several existing models that have various interpretations and impose various additional restrictions on behavior. We show that t...

In seismic data processing, deconvolution plays a very important role because it permits to increase the temporal resolution of seismic sections and to equalize sources. The deconvolution problem when the wavelet is known is an ill-posed problem that can be tackled via regularization methods. However, the seismic source wavelet is unknown and therefore, it must be estimated from the data prior ...

To date, only seven women with Stage Ib1 to IIb cervical cancer during pregnancy treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical surgery have been reported. We describe three cases of pregnant women with Stage Ib1 to IIa cervical cancer who were treated with paclitaxel plus platinum neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical surgery. The first patient had a Stage Ib1 small cell neur...

The paper presents the clinical case of successful treatment giant oleogranuloma external genitalia in a kidney recipient. relevance problem, which has not diminished over time due to identification new cases, is presented. Stages involving pathological tissue removal and reconstructive plastic surgical intervention restore anatomical form functionality penis are described illustrated detail. a...

This paper presents the application of Two-Stage Programming (2sp) for developing error-free paral-lel/distributed applications through automatic verii-cation of computed results with respect to a given speciication. The presentation focuses the case study of the parallel block-striped partitioning variant of Prim's algorithm for nding a minimum spanning tree of a dense graph. We show that the ...