Multilevel models are becoming increasingly used in applied educational social and economic research for the analysis of hierarchically nested data. In these random coefficient regression models the parameters are allowed to differ over the groups in which the observations are nested. For computational ease in deriving parameter estimates, predictors are often centered around the mean. In neste...

This short note adds some results in parallel to those given in [1] on the random variable height on the set of watermelons with wall. In this paper we prove weak convergence results for the random variables “height” and “range” on the set of watermelons without wall restriction, as well as asymptotics for the moments of the random variable height. The techniques applied are quite similar to th...

Three-dimensional model is established with finite difference method to simulate construction process based on design and construction plans of existing overpass pile foundation adjacent to certain large-section railway tunnel in Chengdu, China. Ground, isolation pile, main bridge pier and ramp pile near the tunnel are taken as research object, and surface settlement amount, displacement change...

We present a semantic and pragmatic account of the anaphoric properties of past and perfect that improves on previous work by integrating discourse structure, aspectual type, surface structure and commonsense knowledge. A novel aspect of our account is that we distinguish between two kinds of temporal intervals in the interpretation of temporal operators-discourse reference intervals and event ...

This work analyzes centered binary Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and binary Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBMs), where centering is done by subtracting offset values from visible and hidden variables. We show analytically that (i) centering results in a different but equivalent parameterization for artificial neural networks in general, (ii) the expected performance of centered binary RBMs/DB...

In this paperwe comparepronoun resolution algorithmsand introduce a centering algorithm(LeftRightCentering) that adheres to the constraints and rules of centering theory and is an alternative to Brennan, Friedman, and Pollard’s (1987) algorithm. We then use the Left-Right Centering algorithm to see if two psycholinguistic claims on Cf-list ranking will actually improve pronoun resolution accura...

Inhibitors against Coagulation Factor VIII: Considerations on the Differentiation between the 2 Circulating Anticoagulants, Armando Tripodi, Maria Elisa Mancuso, Veena Chantarangkul, Marigrazia Clerici, Rossella Bader, Pier Luigi Meroni, Elena Santagostino, and Pier Mannuccio Mannucci ( Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Department of Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Univ...

I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, hereby publish the White Paper on the National Environmental Management of the Ocean, as set out in the schedule hereto. The White Paper will also be available on the Department's website at www,environment.gov.za. Copies of the English version of the White Paper are available at the offices of the Department's Oceans and C...