The M-tree is a dynamic data structure designed to index metric datasets. In this paper we introduce two dynamic techniques of building the M-tree. The first one incorporates a multi-way object insertion while the second one exploits the generalized slim-down algorithm. Usage of these techniques or even combination of them significantly increases the querying performance of the M-tree. We also ...

objectives: violence is a widespread problem that occurs all over the word among all ages, genders, races, educational level and socio- economic groups.  the aim of this study was to investigate modeling of different processes that could account for the link between experiencing spouse abuse in women and psychology, psychopathology, social and demographic factors. methods: data were gathered th...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Noll, Promotion 1969, Habilitation 1973, beides an der TU Berlin, war von 1976 bis 1980 o. Professor für Statistische Nachrichtentheorie an der Universität Bremen und ist seit 1980 Professor für Fernmeldetechnik an der Technischen Universität Berlin. Er hat fünf Jahre im Rahmen der MPEG-Standardisierungsaktivitäten die Audio-Arbeitsgruppe geleitet. Lehrund Forschungsschwerp...

This is a short version of the author’s habilitation thesis. The main results have been published but many details are developed and clarified. As well some new results are included: we additionally discuss here quasi classical limit of ALG(a) quantization, mention some topological properties of the moduli space of Bohr Sommerfeld Lagrangian cycles of fixed volume and investigate some propertie...

In this article, we travel back to the early days of experimental use cochlear implants (CIs) in 1970s, when unsettled expectations device and broad investigations its effects began settle center on speech outcomes. We describe how attention outcomes coalesced into specific understandings what CIs do, implicit or explicit as bionic devices that normalize hearing influenced research present. con...

The article is a lightly edited version of my habilitation thesis at the University Würzburg. My aim is to give a self contained, if concise, introduction to the formal methods used when off-line learning in feedforward networks is analyzed by statistical physics. However, due to its origin, the article is not a comprehensive review of the field but is highly skewed towards reporting my own res...