Inspired by recent work on convex formulations of clustering (Lashkari & Golland, 2008; Nowozin & Bakir, 2008) we investigate a new formulation of the Sparse Coding Problem (Olshausen & Field, 1997). In sparse coding we attempt to simultaneously represent a sequence of data-vectors sparsely (i.e. sparse approximation (Tropp et al., 2006)) in terms of a “code” defined by a set of basis elements,...

From its inception, this State was a military-entrepreneur which stabled by warrior group, the Daudputras. Later, when they became able to cope with political crises of State, adopted classical mansabdari system deal matters land revenue and military requirements, simultaneously. At local level, termed as iwaz-e-lashkari. It not true copy but basic concept in state provided jagirdars return the...

Edward Vul, Danial Lashkari, Po-Jang Hsieh, Polina Golland, and Nancy Kanwisher Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, California; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore; and Department of Brain...

introduction social development is a phenomenon having close relationship with ways and how the people live in a society. the main goal of  social development is to upgrade the levels of general livings’ status by creating preferred conditions based on accepted values.focuses must be on: reducing poverty and improving the qualities of nutrition, hygiene, housing, occupation, education and fruit...

Danial Lashkari, Marisa Hollinshead, Joshua L. Roffman, Jordan W. Smoller, 5 Lilla Zöllei, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Bruce Fischl, Hesheng Liu, 6 and Randy L. Buckner 7 8 Harvard University Department of Psychology, Center for Brain Science, Cambridge, 9 MA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, 10 Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA; Howard Hughe...

Exochus atlanticus sp. n., Melo & Penteado-Dias, and Trieces broadi sp. n., Melo & Penteado-Dias, are described and illustrated in Brazilian fauna. The genus Exochus and the species E. ablatus, E. izbus, T. azipas, T. riodinis, T. wardae, T. upermia and T. wascia, are recorded for the first time from Brazil. Diagnosis and distribution information for each species are provided.

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