1 Abstract It is known that students exhibit different learning styles. Good instructors adapt their teaching style to target the appropriate style(s) for their students, and by doing so achieve significant improvements in student outcomes. The same approach, however, does not hold true for submitted assignments. Due to logistics, most submitted assignments are graded in the same fashion: provi...

BACKGROUND A major challenge in high-throughput clinical and toxicology laboratories is the reliable processing of chromatographic data. In particular, the identification, location, and quantification of analyte peaks needs to be accomplished with minimal human supervision. Data processing should have a large degree of self-optimization to reduce or eliminate the need for manual adjustment of p...

The Philippine Islands are one of the most biologically diverse archipelagoes in the world. Current taxonomy, however, may underestimate levels of avian diversity and endemism in these islands. Although species limits can be difficult to determine among allopatric populations, quantitative methods for comparing phenotypic and genotypic data can provide useful metrics of divergence among populat...

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using EGADP for protecting data in horizontallydistributed datasets. EGADP [10] is a new advanced data perturbation method that masks confidential numeric attributes in original datasets while reproducing all linear relationships in masked datasets. It is developed for centralized datasets that are owned by one owner, and no study (to the best of...

I provide the details of the factorization of the Mersenne number 21061 − 1 by the Special Number Field Sieve. Although this factorization is easier than the completed factorization of RSA-768, it represents a new milestone for factorization using publicly available software.

OBJECTIVE To measure the uncertainty of temporal assertions like "3 weeks ago" in clinical texts. DESIGN Temporal assertions extracted from narrative clinical reports were compared to facts extracted from a structured clinical database for the same patients. MEASUREMENTS The authors correlated the assertions and the facts to determine the dependence of the uncertainty of the assertions on t...

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Article history: Received 22 June 2010 Received in revised form 11 March 2011 Accepted 14 March 2011 Available online 2 April 2011

Planning is the art to automatically find solutions to problems where a model of the world is described in terms of variables and actions. A solution to such a planning problem is a sequence of actions (called plan) transforming the initial situation to a state that satisfies a goal description. In classical planning, the world is described by Boolean variables and the field is well studied wit...

The concept of a partial derangement is introduced and a versatile representation of partial derangements is proposed with permutations and derangements as special cases. The representation is derived from a representation of permutations by iterative decomposition of symmetric permutation group Sn into cosets. New algorithms are proposed for generation of partial set derangements in t. The con...