1) Definition of margin γ We replace the ‖ · ‖∞ norm in the definition of the margin, with infx∈X | · |. The correction definition is given as below. The collection PXY is indexed by a margin parameter γ, which denotes the minimum width of a decision set or separation between the component support sets Ck. The margin γ is assigned a positive sign if there is no overlap between components, other...

Surgical reduction of donor livers to treat small children has been performed successfully in several centers. While this procedure improves the allocation of livers, it does not increase the organ supply. We have extended reduced-size orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) to treat 18 patients with 9 livers, accounting for 26% of our transplants during a 10-month period and have evaluated the ...

International organizations, agencies and institutions have made a strong call for early diagnosis of HIV and the prompt –or even immediate-initiation of antiretroviral treatment. It doesn ́t happen the same with viral hepatitis. Hepatitis B can ́t be cured yet. There is no effective treatment to clear the infection among chronic carriers. Yet, being aware of the condition of chronic carrier allo...

The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way is an expose of certain theoretical problems in cognitive science, and in particular, problems that concern the Classical Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). The problems that Fodor worries plague CTM divide into two kinds, and both purport to show that the success of cognitive science will likely be limited to the modules. The first sort of problem concerns what ...

In this paper we describe an ongoing study of novice programmers. The aim is to record (as close as possible to) all of the problems encountered by students during the laboratory sessions of our introductory Java programming class. We discuss the tools and methods employed, in particular presenting the list of problem definitions which is used to classify students’ problems. Data collected duri...

Stephen J. Gould (Pittsburgh, 3/3/97) recently defined humans as ‘the primates who tell stories.’ This paper reviews evidence for a more radical definition as ‘the primates whose cognitive capacity shuts down in the absence of a story’ when attempting to incorporate probabilistic information to make a coherent probabilistic inference. Thus, people cannot conform (‘descriptively’) to the standar...

The integration of digital technology confronts teachers, educators and researchers with many questions. What is the potential of ICT for learning and teaching, and which factors are decisive in making it work in the mathematics classroom? To investigate these questions, six cases from leading studies in the field are described, and decisive success factors are identified. This leads to the con...