A new proportionate-type affine projection algorithm with intermittent update of the weight coefficients is proposed. It takes into account the “history” of the proportionate factors and uses a fast recursive filtering procedure. Also, the effect of using dichotomous coordinate descent iterations is investigated. Simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm has improved performance a...

An understanding of factors influencing health in socioeconomic groups is required to reduce health inequalities. This study investigated combinations of health determinants associated with self-rated health (SRH), and their relative importance, in income-based groups. Cross-sectional data from year 15 (2000 - 2001) of the CARDIA study (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults, USA) - 3...

Abstract The paper presents different arguments against the necessity of mereological universalism. First, it argues that they are examples a much more general argumentative structure. It then contends some these cannot be resisted by distinguishing variants universalism have been recently proposed in literature—in contrast with recent suggestions to contrary. Finally, provides ways resist such...

This article examines how ordinary victims of racism rebut racist beliefs communicated to them by the mass media and encountered in daily life. We describe the rhetorical devices that North African immigrant men in France use to respond to French racism, drawing on thirty in-depth interviews conducted with randomly selected blue-collar immigrants residing in the Paris suburbs. We argue that whi...