The use of entropy as a distance measure has several benefits. Amongst other things it provides a consistent approach to handling of symbolic attributes, real valued attributes and missing values. The approach of taking all possible transformation paths is discussed. We describe K*, an instance-based learner which uses such a measure, and results are presented which compare favourably with seve...

There exist many applications where both symbolic and floating-point computations are required at the same time. Image recognition, for example, requires huge amounts of numeric calculation to extract features from raw image data before the actual recognition is performed according to those features. Systems for symbolic computation should perform type-checking on numeric calculations. Although...

burrell and morgan offered an analysis of paradigms in terms of four broad worldviews, characterized as functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist. recently, interpretive paradigm has received major attention in the academic fields. the interpretive paradigm rests on a precarious, socially-constructed web of symbolic relationships. the interpretive theorist’s diffic...

This article highlights some of the causes underlying differences in disability allowances by sex and race. Among the causes are differences in labor-force patterns, the educational background, and the age distributions of the insured and applicant populations. More than half of the differences between the black and white applicants in the proportion of claims allowed is explained by difference...

Non-symbolic fragmentation is an existing method for securing data. It has benefits over conventional cryptography and, due to its relative simplicity, can be made to execute very quickly. Fragmentation (in this research) refers to the breaking up of data into fragments of random length, followed by the sequential allocation of each of these fragments to one of a number of streams. This is call...

this article reviews the ancient symbolic world, shia and modernity believes in iranian’s mind which are historical link between ancient symbolic world and shie. since the late nineteenth century with the modernization, for exampel civilization, constitutional movement and palavi government, gap created in iranians mind. dispite this gap, iranians mind have symbolic characteristics and are not ...

DESCRIPTION. Robotics and Autonomous Systems will carry articles describing fundamental developments in the field of robotics, with special emphasis on autonomous systems. An important goal of this journal is to extend the state of the art in both symbolic and sensory based robot control and learning in the context of autonomous systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems will carry articles on th...

The purpose of this study was to understand the health benefits of line dancing activity in Korean middle-aged women. This study explored how Korean middle-aged women perceive health benefits through lived experiences of line dancing in their leisure time. Three themes emerged related to health benefits: (1) psychological benefit, (2) physical benefit, and (3) social benefit. This finding sugge...

We develop a simple model of labor market participation, human capital degradation, and re-training. We focus on how non-participation, as a distinct state from unemployment and employment, is determined by the welfare system in interaction with labor market conditions and personal characteristics. We provide a tractable framework to analyze how the decisions to exit the labor force and to miti...