This paper considers model selection problem in the presence of incidental parameters. The main interest is in selecting the structure of the model in the common parameters after concentrating out the incidental parameters. Using KLIC based on the pro…le likelihood, a new model selection information criterion is developed, which impose heavier penalties than those of the standard information cr...

literatures have reported that a lot of drought related genes were cloned and individual gene showed positive effects under controlled stress experiments, but were not much effective in the field. although, the progresses by conventional breeding approaches were achievable as some drought varieties have been released to the farmers in the recent years but this is not adequate to cope up with th...

With the availability of high-density marker maps and cost-effective genotyping, genomic selection methods may provide faster genetic gain than can be achieved by current selection methods based on phenotypes and the pedigree. Here we investigate some of the factors driving the accuracy of genomic selection, namely marker density and marker type (i.e., microsatellite and SNP markers), and the u...

The role of thymic MHC class II-bearing cells in the selection of the TCR repertoire has been investigated in allogeneic radiation bone marrow chimeras. Positive selection of mature CD4+ T lymphocytes expressing the V beta 6+ TCR domain was found to depend upon radioresistant (presumably epithelial) I-E+ thymic cells. On the other hand, negative selection of CD4+ V beta 6+ cells (which was addi...

The study investigates how knowledge workers perceive avatar e-mail differently from traditional e-mail, and how they select traditional versus avatar e-mail when different levels of task equivocality and different types of communication direction are present. Three field studies were conducted with knowledge workers who have used avatar and traditional e-mail. This study demonstrates that over...

BACKGROUND Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) patients require mechanical ventilation (MV) for breathing support. Patient-specific PEEP is encouraged for treating different patients but there is no well established method in optimal PEEP selection. METHODS A study of 10 patients diagnosed with ALI/ARDS whom underwent recruitment manoeuvre is carried out. Airway pressure and flow data ...

This paper explores the application of feature selection by the Correlation based Feature Selection (CFS) algorithm on the problem of classification of E.coli promoters using neural networks, Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Extreme Learning Machines (ELM). It was found that even though in general the classification accuracy can be reduced by a statistically significant amount, in real terms t...

In this paper we study the effectiveness of using a phrase-based representation in e-mail classification, and the affect this approach has on a number of machine learning algorithms. We also evaluate various feature selection methods and reduction levels for the bag-of-words representation on several learning algorithms and corpora. The results show that the phrasebased representation and featu...

We propose a procedure associated with the idea of the E-M algorithm for model selection in the presence of missing data. The idea extends the concept of parameters to include both the model and the parameters under the model, and thus allows the model to be part of the E-M iterations. We develop the procedure, known as the E-MS algorithm, under the assumption that the class of candidate models...

For a given service demand, it is necessary to select a suitable service provider among many possibilities. An accurate selection is difficult when consumers do not have a significant history with many of the service providers and thus need to interact with others to make informed selections. In traditional approaches, consumers rate the service providers and exchange these ratings among each o...