A group of high school students attended 7 educational sessions for a preventive drug abuse program. The students were exposed to drug abusers and their families. Drug abusers and their families informed the subjects about the consequences of addiction in their life: how they became addicted and how the addiction worsened their psychosocial life. Moreover their families explained to student...

This paper extends work of Shen and Walter and others concerning relationships between sampling and time-frequency localization. We consider approximate projections onto eigenspaces of timeand bandlimiting operators, expressed in terms of samples of bandlimited functions. We establish error estimates of eigenfunction samples and on matrices that can be used to generate approximations of these s...

Our work has proceeded from the grossly simplified neural model of McCulloch and Pitts, 1943,1 which ignored the effects of disturbances both in the functioning of individual neurons, and in the organization of the neurons into networks. Our recent efforts have been directed to constructing more sophisticated models, albeit still grossly abstracted from neurology, which are designed to combat s...

We present a McCulloch-Pitts neural net to recognize even linear languages. The language class is studied in order to define the net topology. Finally, the equivalence between the language class and the languages recognized by the net is proved.

Abstract This study aim to propose a moving average control chart explicit formula based on the Generalized Poisson distribution ( MA GP ) and compare performance of with that Shewhart C ). The run length ARL is used consider performance. results indicated superior for detecting small shifts. Practitioners will find this be accurate as well simple apply use.

A Lasting Legacy for London?, a document produced by the London Assembly,2 has highlighted key points of the legacy of previous Games. The legacy left by the Games in four previous host cities – Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004 – was assessed for nine key sectors. These results are summarised in Table 1 overleaf, which analyses the data using a scorecard sys...

Accurate and effective anomaly detection and diagnosis of modern engineering systems by monitoring processes ensure reliability and safety of a product while maintaining desired quality. In this paper, an innovative method based on Kullback-Leibler divergence for detecting incipient anomalies in highly correlated multivariate data is presented. We use a partial least square (PLS) method as a mo...

A data acquisition and analysis protocol for quality control (QC) of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies is presented. Two sets of data are acquired, single-timepoint data for measurement of signal-to-ghost and signal-to-noise ratios, and multiple-timepoint data for measurement of short-term drift. Since manual data analysis can be time consuming and an impediment to regular QC, an au...