In constructing probabilistic networks from human judgments, we use causal relationships to convey useful patterns of dependencies. The converse task, that of inferring causal relationships from patterns of dependencies, is far less understood. Th’ 1s paper establishes conditions under which the directionality of some interactions can be determined from non-temporal probabilistic information an...

An approach to analytic learning is described that searches for accurate entailments of a Horn Clause domain theory. A hill-climbing search, guided by an information based evaluation function, is performed by applying a set of operators that derive frontiers from domain theories. The analytic learning system is one component of a multi-strategy relational learning system. We compare the accurac...

Landscape can be explained both fro� positivistic and constructivistic positions. Confusion and contradictions around the landscape paradig� arise fro� different definitions (e.g. geoco�plex versus cultural landscape), the role of landscape boundaries and landscape classifications. �he deli�itation and classification of (natural) landscape units in Saxony (Ger�any), the concept of landscape fun...

Fitting a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to the smoothed speech spectrum allows an alternative set of features to be extracted from the speech signal. These features have been shown to possess information complementary to the standard MFCC parameterisation. This paper further investigates the use of these GMM features in combination with MFCCs. The extraction and use of a confidence metric to com...

Motion smear is an important visual cue for motion perception by the human vision system (HVS). However, in image analysis research, exploiting motion smear has been largely ignored. Rather, motion smear is usually considered as a degradation of images that needs to be removed. In this paper, we establish a computational model that estimates image motion from motion smear information--"motion f...

OBJECTIVE Lefradafiban is the orally active prodrug of fradafiban, a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist. The present phase II study aimed to determine the dose of lefradafiban that provides 80% blockade of the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptors by fradafiban, and to study the pharmacodynamics and safety of different doses in patients with stable angina undergoing angioplasty. DESIGN A dou...

هدف: با توجه به اهمیت سرمایه­‌های انسانی سازمان و ویژه استعدادها عنوان مهم­ترین ابزار کسب مزیت رقابتی، هدف از انجام این پژوهش ارائه مدلی برای مدیریت استعداد در صنعت خودرو است.طراحی/ روش‌شناسی/ رویکرد: پژوهش، صورت ترکیبی اکتشافی (کیفی-کمی) شده است. فاز کیفی، اجزای یک مدل روش تحلیل تم شناسایی شد. کمی، اجزاء روابط استخراج استفاده مدلسازی معادلات ساختاری، مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفت تا متغیرهای مرتبط ار...

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