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This paper provides a brief review of commonly used statistical methods for analyses of ordinal response data. Generalized CMH Score Tests of Marginal Homogeneity, GEE, and random-intercepts logistic regression ordinal model for analysis of repeated ordinal response data will be particularly discussed. SAS procedures, Proc NLMIXED, Proc GENMOD, Proc IML, and Proc FREQ for categorical ordinal an...

Due to the high increase in and demand for a wide assortment of applications that require low-cost, high-efficiency, and compact systems, RF power amplifiers are considered the most critical design blocks and power consuming components in wireless communication, TV transmission, radar, and RF heating. Therefore, much research has been carried out in order to improve the performance of power amp...

Sonoluminescence spectra from nonaqueous liquids under a variety of gases are presented. Ultrasonic irradiation of alkanes under Ar leads to emission from C2, C2H, and CH. When nitrogen is present, emission is seen from CN. When oxygen is present, emission from COz, CH, and OH is observed. Ultrasonic irradiation of tetrachloroethylene or CCI4 leads to emission from CI2. The intensity of sonolum...

Nanoindentation is used to determine the dynamic viscoelastic properties of six polymer materials. It is shown that varying the harmonic frequency of the nanoindentation does not have any significant effect on the measured storage and loss moduli of the polymers. Agreement is found between these results and data from DMA testing of the same materials. Varying the harmonic amplitude of the nanoi...

Weighted Probability Distribution Voting (WPDV) is a newly designed machine learning algorithm, for which research is currently aimed at the determination of good weighting schemes. This paper describes a simple yet effective weight determination procedure, which leads to models that can produce competitive results for a number of NLP classification tasks. 1 T h e W P D V a l g o r i t h m Weig...

Two experiments were conducted to study the effects of feeding freqnency on growth, and of handling stress on growth and mortality, in intensive tank culture of the walking catfish Clunas fuscus. In the first experiment, fish were grown from an initial weight of 37 g for 34 d. A fixed ration of 3.0% body weight per day was divided into either 1, 2, or 3 feedings per day, and fish were either ha...

We report here about our submissions to different music classification tasks for the MIREX 2010 evaluations. These submissions are similar to the ones sent at MIREX 2009 (see [1]), if we look at the classifiers and the main audio features. However we added high-level features (or semantic features), based on Support Vector Machine models of curated databases of different kind. We submitted two ...

Do adults from different cultures use words differently when speaking to their young children? Previous research in early lexical development has provided a positive answer to this question. In particular, work by Choi (2000) and Tardif and colleagues (Tardif, 1996, 2006; Tardif, Shatz, & Naigles, 1997) suggests that the proportion of nouns and verbs in the input to young children differs acros...

Magnets is a next-generation WiFi-based wireless infrastructure consisting of a wireless mesh with 50 nodes, and a high-speed wireless backbone with a raw end-to-end throughput of 108Mb/sec. The main theme in the design of the Mangets and its key distinguishing characteristic from similar efforts is heterogeneity. It is integrated with cellular networks based on GPRS, UMTS and next-generation w...