We report findings from a chat log analysis of a support group in which 2–5 patients and one or two facilitators chatted in a virtual space; weekly sessions lasted 1.5 hrs. each, and we followed them over five years. In the virtual space, participants were represented by avatars with emotional expressions. Chat messages were analysed with a text-mining tool, exploring whether positive emotion w...

This paper focuses on developing a relatively simple method for analyzing web-logs. It also explores the challenges and benefits of web-log analysis. The study of student behavior on this site provides insights into website design and the effectiveness of this site in particular. Another benefit realized from the paper is the ease with which these concepts can be discussed with students. The pu...

In this chapter, we present the action-object pair approach as a conceptual framework for conducting transaction log analysis. We argue that there are two basic components in the interaction between the user and the system recorded in a transaction log, which are action and object. An action is a specific expression of the user. An object is a self-contained information object, the recipient of...

Quantum state engineering and quantum computation rely on procedures that, up to some fidelity, prepare a quantum object in a pure state. If the object is initially in a statistical mixture, then this increases the largest eigenvalue of its probability spectrum. We refer to this as probabilistic information erasure. Such processes are said to occur within Landauer’s framework if they rely on an...

For positive semidefinite matrices A and B, Ando and Zhan proved the inequalities |||f(A) + f(B)||| ≥ |||f(A + B)||| and |||g(A) + g(B)||| ≤ |||g(A + B)|||, for any unitarily invariant norm, and for any non-negative operator monotone f on [0,∞) with inverse function g. These inequalities have very recently been generalised to non-negative concave functions f and non-negative convex functions g,...

this study was carried out to determine some biological characteristics including age, growth and somatic condition of carasobarbus luteus and capoeta trutta in the turkish part of the tigris river. the examined samples of c. luteus were distributed between ii-ix years of age. the length-weigth relations of females and males were calculated as log w =-4.7314 +3.0113 log fl and log w = -4.7631 +...