objective : the major objective of this study was to determine the means and 95% confidence interval of normal 6 years old children's motor-verbal skills. based on the results of this study we could develop a measure to diagnose abnormal motor skills. in addition, in this follow-up study, we compared the first-graders' motor-verbal skills to their own skills one year earlier. method: ...

Automatic determination of proper neural network topology by trimming over-sized networks is an important area of study, which has previously been addressed using a variety of techniques. In this paper, we present Information Measure Based Skeletonisation (IMBS), a new approach to this problem where superfluous hidden units are removed based on their information measure (1M). This measure, borr...

Fuzzy Hamming Distance is successfully used in a Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system as a similarity measure. The system performs a m × n partitioning of the compared images and for each partitions pairs evaluates FHD. In the last step the FHD are defuzzified and the results are combined in a final score. In order to take full advantage of the use of fuzzy sets, the current study invest...

We consider dynamic pricing schemes in online settings where selfish agents generate online events. Previous work on online mechanisms has dealt almost entirely with the goal of maximizing social welfare or revenue in an auction settings. This paper deals with quite general settings and minimizing social costs. We show that appropriately computed posted prices allow one to achieve essentially t...

The paper presents the comparison of fuzzy conclusions derived from the use of t-norms with the fuzzy conclusions derived from the use of H-norm. The idea was to examine the application of H-logical norm to fuzzy reasoning, which is not monotonious while it is known that t-norms used in fuzzy reasoning have the characteristic of monotonicity. The comparison of fuzzy conclusions was performed by...

This paper explores how data generated by meter induction models may be recycled to quantify metrical ambiguity, which is calculated by measuring the dispersion of metrical induction strengths across a population of possible meters. A measure of dispersion commonly used in economics to measure income inequality, the Gini coefficient, is introduced for this purpose. The value of this metric as a...