In this paper, we use Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) for abstracting the style of a composer and for recognizing it out of an unknown excerpt. We employed a data set of 605 musical themes written by five well-known composers (Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Beatles). A preliminary investigation based on descriptive statistics served the purpose of choosing a group of suitable music represen...

Despite its illegality, child marriage occurs throughout the Indian landscape. In her book, Child Marriage in India: Socio-legal and Human Rights Dimensions, Jaya Sagade examines the prevalence of child marriage among India’s various cultures and its impact on the human rights of young women. Sagade asserts that, notwithstanding minimal legislative efforts, the Indian government has not met the...

The suspension footbridges are very flexible due to their geometrical structure; hence they may face severe vibration problems induced mainly by natural forces and pedestrians crossing. By exceeding a certain limit, these vibrations can disturb the serviceability of the bridge as well as health and safety of the structure and pedestrians. Therefore, standard design guidelines are sets of recomm...

This work is reported on the synthesis of Fe3O4/eggshell nanocomposites in the absence of anystabilizer or surfactant. Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles were established on the egg shell. The adsorptionof Malachite green (MG) and Crystal violet (CV) as cationic dyes and Eriochrome Black T (EBT) as ananionic dye by magnetite nanoparticles loaded egg shell (MNLES) and magnetite nanop...

Within the last decade, a number of satellite sub-mm limb sounding missions has been developed with Odin/SMR[10] and EOSMLS[17]among them now operating successfully for several years. While focused on measuring atmospheric trace gase profiles, frequent observations of upper tropospheric ice clouds by these instruments are expected according to previous studies[3] [5]and have recently been demon...

Up to now, publicly available data sets to build and evaluate Ames mutagenicity prediction tools have been very limited in terms of size and chemical space covered. In this report we describe a new unique public Ames mutagenicity data set comprising about 6500 nonconfidential compounds (available as SMILES strings and SDF) together with their biological activity. Three commercial tools (DEREK, ...

In this paper we describe SMILES, a Stunning Multi-purpose Integrated LEarning System. A machine learning system is useful for extracting models from data and hence it can be used for many applications such as data analysis, decision support or data mining. SMILES is a machine learning system that integrates many different features from other machine learning techniques and paradigms and, more ...

Early comparison of O3, HCl, and HNO3 L2 products (ver. 005-06-0032) of the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave LimbEmission Sounder (SMILES) onboard International Space Station has been conducted. Good agreements are observed among SMILES, SVISAT-1/ACE-FTS, AURA/MLS, and ENVISAT.MIPAS, for O3 and HCl below 45 km. SMILES HNO3 profiles are statistically ~20% higher than ACE-FTS and MIPAS. At high...

This work is part of a research effort to understand and characterize the morphological and dynamic features of polite and amused smiles. We analyzed a dataset consisting of young adults (n=61), interested in learning about banking services, who met with a professional banker face-to-face in a conference room while both participants’ faces were unobtrusively recorded. We analyzed 258 instances ...

A cloud detection algorithm that attempts to identify all of the significant power returns from the vertical column above the micro pulse lidar at all times was applied to one year of micro pulse lidar data collected at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) central facility near Lamont, Oklahoma. The results of this analysis are ...