Does current utility bias predictions of future utility for high stakes decisions? Here I provide field evidence consistent with such Projection Bias in one of life’s most thought-about decisions: college enrolment. After arguing and documenting with survey evidence that cloudiness increases the appeal of academic activities, I analyse the enrolment decisions of 1,284 prospective students who v...

Probability Estimation Trees (PETs) [9] try to estimate the probability with which an instance belongs to a certain class, rather than just predicting its most likely class. Several approaches for learning PETs have been proposed, mainly in a propositional context. Since we are interested in applying PETs in a relational context, we make some simple modifications to the first-order tree learner...

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The terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001 (9/11) uncovered weaknesses in the US national public health infrastructure. Response e orts did not have the integrated communications and uni ed command needed for a large-scale response, and information crucial for decision making was not shared among agencies.1 First responders were poorly trained and equipment for their roles was inadequate; according...

the aim of this paper was to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of talent identification in championship sport of i.r. iran and to examine its bottlenecks and challenges. for data collection, the documents and related literature were reviewed, council meetings were held and a researcher-made questionnaire and swot analysis were used. 256 subjects including 13 managers...

Targeted genome editing using artificial nucleases has the potential to accelerate basic research as well as plant breeding by providing the means to modify genomes rapidly in a precise and predictable manner. Here we describe the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) system, a recently developed tool for the introduction of site-sp...

GrabCut is an innovative 2D image segmentation technique developed by Rother et al. [2004]. This paper provides implementation details omitted from the original paper. Details covered in background papers are summarized here so that future implementors can refer to a single paper. Our implementation of GrabCut is described and results are included. Our main contribution is correcting errors in ...