There are few development organizations that have integrated usability activities as an integral part of their product development projects. One reason for this might be that the costs and benefits of usability activities are not visible to the management. In this paper the author analyses some of the characteristics of the published usability cost-benefit analysis models. These models have dif...

This paper introduces the general framework, concepts, and procedures of anatomically informed basis functions (AIBF), a new method for the analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. In contradistinction to existing voxel-based univariate or multivariate methods the approach described here can incorporate various forms of prior anatomical knowledge to specify sophisticated s...

Radial basis function methods are modern ways to approximate multivariate functions, especially in the absence of grid data. They have been known, tested and analysed for several years now and many positive properties have been identified. This paper gives a selective but up-to-date survey of several recent developments that explains their usefulness from the theoretical point of view and contr...

Radial basis function networks (RBF) are efficient general function approximators. They show good generalization performance and they are easy to train. Due to theoretical considerations RBFs commonly use Gaussian activation functions. It has been shown that these tight restrictions on the choice of possible activation functions can be relaxed in practical applications. As an alternative differ...

In this thesis, a method is presented that incorporates anatomical information into the statistical analysis of functional neuroimaging data. Available anatomical information is used to explicitly specify spatial components within a functional volume that are assumed to carry evidence of functional activation. After estimating the activity by fitting the same spatial model to each functional vo...

In order to investigate the fundamental properties of q-Bernstein basis functions, we give generating functions for these basis functions and their functional and differential equations. In [16], [15] and [17], we construct a novel collection of generating functions to derive many known and some new identities for the classical Bernstein basis functions. The main purpose of this paper is to con...

The parabolic partial differential equation arises in many application of technologies. In this paper, we propose an approximate method for solution of the heat and advection-diffusion equations using Laguerre-Gaussians radial basis functions (LG-RBFs). The results of numerical experiments are compared with the other radial basis functions and the results of other schemes to confirm the validit...

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