Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, December 6-9, 2010 Size, color, and orientation have long been considered elementary features whose attributes are extracted in parallel and available to guide the deployment of attention. If each is processed in the same fashion with simply a different set of local detectors, one would expect sim...

For my project, I modified the SBB code to reduce its training time and achieve cache constancy. Performance of the modified algorithm was evaluated on three datasets from the 2003 NIPS competition and benchmarked against the original SBB algorithm. The results show a significant reduction in training time while maintaining or improving classification accuracy and solution complexity. General T...

In a randomized controlled design, 100 healthy, term neonates in the first week of life, undergoing heel prick for routine screening were randomized to receive a heel prick in either the drowsy/sleeping state or the awake (but not fussy or crying) state. 48 babies in sleeping or drowsy states and 47 in the awake states were analyzed. Infants in the drowsy/sleeping states scored significantly lo...

This article summarizes several Canadian court decisions from 2015 onward stemming wrongful birth and life litigation. Plaintiff success often turns on whether causation is established, a balance of probabilities, between physician’s breach standard care the harm to parents and/or child later born. Physicians’ failure offer or order screening diagnostic tests has been source liability, as too c...

Adsorption has become an attractive method for the extraction and recovery of metals from wastewater effluents. This study involved fabrication mesoporous neat polyacrylonitrile (PAN) monoliths composite polymer PAN poly-4-vinylpyridine (P4VP) as adsorbents toxic elements (As(V), Cr(VI)) PGMs(Ru(III), Rh(III), Pd(II)) simulated solutions. Fabrication was conducted using non-solvent induced phas...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of the dorsal penile nerve block (DPNB) with a less invasive form of local anesthesia, eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA) cream, for reduction of pain during neonatal circumcision. DESIGN Prospective, blinded, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Tertiary referral, neonatal intensive care nursery in a university teaching hospital. PATIENTS Fifty...

The cerebral cortex predicts visual motion to adapt human behavior to surrounding objects moving in real time. Although the underlying mechanisms are still unknown, predictive coding is one of the leading theories. Predictive coding assumes that the brain's internal models (which are acquired through learning) predict the visual world at all times and that errors between the prediction and the ...

In this paper we propose a novel approach to automatically determine the batch size in stochastic gradient descent methods. The choice of the batch size induces a trade-off between the accuracy of the gradient estimate and the cost in terms of samples of each update. We propose to determine the batch size by optimizing the ratio between a lower bound to a linear or quadratic Taylor approximatio...

Much natural data is hierarchical in nature. Moreover, this hierarchy is often shared between different instances. We introduce the nested Chinese Restaurant Franchise Process to obtain both hierarchical tree-structured representations for objects, akin to (but more general than) the nested Chinese Restaurant Process while sharing their structure akin to the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process. More...