The paper presents two useful extensions of the incremental SVM in the context of online learning. An online support vector data description algorithm enables application of the online paradigm to unsupervised learning. Furthermore, online learning can be used in the large-scale classification problems to limit the memory requirements for storage of the kernel matrix. The proposed algorithms ar...

Before independence in 1961, Tanzania was a Germany colony (1889-1916) and later British Protectorate (1916-1961). During the 72 year period, the western medical services targeted foreigners working for the colonial governments. After independence, the government has expanded the health services with a vision to improve the health and well being of all Tanzanians with a focus on those most at r...

We develop a utility-maximization model to explain why some choose to be entrepreneurs while others prefer employment. The individual’s utility from any occupation is assumed to depend on income, work effort, risk bearing, independence, and other working conditions of that occupation. The individual chooses the occupation and career path that maximizes utility. We demonstrate that the incentive...

Combinatorial rigidity theory seeks to describe the rigidity or flexibility of bar-joint frameworks in R in terms of the structure of the underlying graph G. The goal of this article is to broaden the foundations of combinatorial rigidity theory by replacing G with an arbitrary representable matroid M . The ideas of rigidity independence and parallel independence, as well as Laman’s and Recski’...

Pigeons' performance on a working memory task, symbolic delayed matching-to-sample, was used to examine the interaction between working memory and reference memory. Reference memory was established by training pigeons to discriminate between the comparison cues used in delayed matching as S+ and S- stimuli. Delayed matching retention tests then measured accuracy when working and reference memor...

Many extensions of classical stochastic independence have been proposed when working with probability sets to represent uncertainty. As belief functions can be seen as particular instances of such probability sets, some authors have investigated how these extensions can be reinterpreted and retrieved in the particular framework of belief functions. They have mainly focused on the so-called noti...

The effect of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on working memory and field independence was investigated in a twelve-week longitudinal time-series study in which the uMatch Me" computerized memory game and the Rod and Frame Test were administered daily to a matched pair of 11-year-old boys and a matched pair of 14-year-old girls. One of the boys and one of the girls began the TM tec...

As highly as Americans prize independence, older Americans fear dependence even more. Yet nutrition’s effect on independence in later years is often overlooked as a research focus and is underappreciated by older adults themselves and by those working with them. Nutrition scientists can and should play a greater role in prolonging independence by focusing more attention on the health promotion ...