The results of recent studies on prediction markets are encouraging. Prior experience demonstrates that markets with different incentive schemes predicted uncertain future events at a remarkable accuracy. In this paper, we study the impact of different monetary incentives on the prediction accuracy in a field experiment. In order to do so, we compare three groups of users, corresponding to thre...

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Demonstrations from a teacher are invaluable to any student trying to learn a given behavior. Used correctly, demonstrations can speed up both human and machine learning by orders of magnitude. An important question, then, is how best to extract the knowledge encoded by the teacher in these demonstrations. In this paper, we present a method of learning from demonstrations that leverages some of...

objective(s): the purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis on human micrornas (mirnas) expression data of endometriosis tissue profiles versus those of normal controls and to identify novel putative diagnostic markers. materials andmethods: pubmed, embase, web of science, ovid medline were used to search for endometriosis mirna expression profiling studies of endometriosis. the mirn...

background: noise prediction is considered to be the best method for evaluating cost-preventative noise controls in industrial workrooms. one of the most important issues is the development of accurate models for analysis of the complex relationships among acoustic features affecting noise level in workrooms. in this study, advanced fuzzy approaches were employed to develop relatively accurate ...

abstract   background : leukemia is one of the mostcommon cancers in children, comprising more than a third of all childhood cancers. newly affected patients in usa are estimated as 10100cases, and if these cases are diagnosed late or proper treatment is not applied, then it can be mortal. because rapid and proper diagnosis of leukemia based on clinical or medicinal findings (without biopsy) is...

traditional poultry production has changed to a considerable industry after few decades. now, poultry industry is one of the main sectors to obtain the required protein for human consumption. prediction of the weight and number of eggs according to economic traits can improve the efficiency of production and the profit of producers. in present study, the weight and number of eggs in mazandaran ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: ca 15.3 is elevated in most patients with distant metastatic breast cancer who had prognostic information. the present study was performed to estimate predictive ability of ca 15.3 in assessment of symptomatic metastasis in patients with breast cancer. materials and methods: during five years, 159 primary breas...

this paper presents the prediction of vehicle's velocity time series using neural networks. for this purpose, driving data is firstly collected in real world traffic conditions in the city of tehran using advance vehicle location devices installed on private cars. a multi-layer perceptron network is then designed for driving time series forecasting. in addition, the results of this study a...