This thesis first takes a broad look at various music similarity measures in the literature, and then focuses on two different model-free music similarity measures and evaluates them. The term model-free in this context indicates that these music similarity measures use few or no background knowledge about music whatsoever, they are more general compared with other approaches and can, with litt...

This short note points out an improvement on the robust stability analysis for electrically driven robots given in the paper. In the paper, the author presents a FAT-based direct adaptive control scheme for electrically driven robots in presence of nonlinearities associated with actuator input constraints. However, he offers not suitable stability analysis for the closed-loop system. In other w...

This paper investigates the general problem of resource allocation for mitigating channel fading effects in Free Space Optical (FSO) communications. The is modeled as constrained stochastic optimization framework, which covers a variety FSO scenarios involving power adaptation, relay selection and their joint allocation. Under this we propose two algorithms that solve problems. We first present...

background: leptin is an adipokine that circulates in a free form and bound to a soluble leptin receptor. patients with polycystic ovary syndrome have increased insulin resistance and high incidence of obesity. objective: this study was carried out to evaluate levels of leptin and free leptin in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) and note any relationships with insulin resistance and...

Assessing and understanding the impact of scattered and widespread events onto a mission is a pertinacious problem. Current approaches attempting to solve mission impact assessment employ score-based algorithms leading to spurious results. We identify a fourfold problem with score-based algorithms: (1) score-based algorithms enforce deep training of experts to employed frameworks for specificat...

In this paper we study the dynamics of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection under administration of a vaccine and treatment, where the disease is transmitted directly from the parents to the offspring  and also through contact with infective individuals. Stability of the disease-free steady state is investigated. The basic reproductive rate, $R_0$, is derived. The results show that the dynamics of...