We call a learning environment partially blind when there is an admixture o f supervised and unsupervised (or blind) learning. Such situations typically arise in practice when supervised training data labelled by a teacher are scarce or expensive and are supplemented by inexpensive unlabelled (or blind) data available in relative profusion. Vapnik-eervonenkis theory can be deployed in such sett...

Computing approximately optimal solutions is an attractive way to cope with NP-hard optimization problems. In the past decade or so, semidefinite programming or SDP (a form of convex optimization that generalizes linear programming) has emerged as a powerful tool for designing such algorithms, and the last few years have seen a profusion of results (worst-case algorithms, average case algorithm...

This book is especially designed to help those beginning work in junior trail11"! j centres. The need for one has long been felt and the book is brief, simple, warmhear , | and encouraging, dealing in an understanding way with the problems of both teachers a j children. New teachers will also find the chapters on subnormality and on phys'c handicaps most useful. ^ Inexplicably, the chapters on ...

Contemporary spreadsheets are plagued by a profusion of errors, auditing difficulties, lack of uniform development methodologies, and barriers to easy comprehension of the underlying business models they represent. This paper presents a case that most of these difficulties stem from the fact that the standard spreadsheet user-interaction paradigm – the ‘cell-matrix’ approach – is appropriate fo...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is generally considered a rare disease, but may account for up to 10% of patients with Parkinsonism. The profusion of names for this disease, which may present to general physicians, psychiatrists, cardiologists, autonomic specialists, general neurologists and those with a special interest in Parkinsonism (this author's own perspective) or cerebellar disorders, tog...

In addition to the inherent challenge, driven by curiosity and the excitement of the chase, the quest for malaria vaccines has been made more imperative over the past two decades or so by pragmatic assessment of the odds in a disease which has been with mankind for millenia. Accel­ erating spread of parasite resistance to more and more drugs, with too few new molecular structures in the pipelin...

This paper surveys first-order probabilistic languages (FOPLs), which combine the expressive power of first-order logic with a probabilistic treatment of uncertainty. We provide a taxonomy that helps make sense of the profusion of FOPLs that have been proposed over the past fifteen years. We also emphasize the importance of representing uncertainty not just about the attributes and relations of...

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of respiratory morbidity among asbestos-exposed ironworkers and to determine the relationship between respiratory morbidity indices and length of exposure. A medical screening provided information on chest radiographic abnormalities, pulmonary function, rales, finger clubbing, and respiratory symptoms for 547 asbestos-exposed ironworkers. Union pensi...

encouraged within the academic community, the study of film music has become a burgeoning multidisciplinary if not transdisciplinary endeavor. Today writers utilize not only the concepts and technical vocabularies of music and film making, but variously terms and concepts from musicology, film theory, media and communication studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, literary criticism,...

When it comes to computer game genre classifications, we are still forced to navigate a terminology jungle, having to simultaneously consider the game platform, the narrative, the game world milieu and, last but not least, the mode of gameplay. With multiple terms in each of these subcategories the norm, the plethora of descriptive words makes the taxonomy all but impenetrable. And yet a clear ...