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Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: new procedures and recommendations

by Patrick E. Shrout, Niall Bolger - PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS , 2002
"... Mediation is said to occur when a causal effect of some variable X on an outcome Y is explained by some intervening variable M. The authors recommend that with small to moderate samples, bootstrap methods (B. Efron & R. Tibshirani, 1993) be used to assess mediation. Bootstrap tests are powerful ..."
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. These models are useful for theory development and testing as well as for the identification of possible points of intervention in applied work. Mediation is equally of interest to experimental psychologists as it is to those who study naturally occurring processes through nonexperimental studies. For example

Vulnerabilities Analysis

by Matt Bishop , 1999
"... This note presents a new model for classifying vulnerabilities in computer systems. The model is structurally different than earlier models, It decomposes vulnerabilities into small parts, called "primitive conditions. " Our hypothesis is that by examining systems for these conditi ..."
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for these conditions, we can detect vulnerabilities. By preventing these conditions from holding, we can prevent vulnerabilities from occurring, even if we do not know that the vulnerability exists. A formal basis for this model is presented. An informal, experimental method of validation for non- secure systems

On Spectral Clustering: Analysis and an algorithm

by Andrew Y. Ng, Michael I. Jordan, Yair Weiss - ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS , 2001
"... Despite many empirical successes of spectral clustering methods -- algorithms that cluster points using eigenvectors of matrices derived from the distances between the points -- there are several unresolved issues. First, there is a wide variety of algorithms that use the eigenvectors in slightly ..."
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the algorithm, and give conditions under which it can be expected to do well. We also show surprisingly good experimental results on a number of challenging clustering problems.

ANALYSIS OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR HABITAT MONITORING

by Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Alan Mainwaring, David Culler, John Anderson , 2004
"... We provide an in-depth study of applying wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to real-world habitat monitoring. A set of system design requirements were developed that cover the hardware design of the nodes, the sensor network software, protective enclosures, and system architecture to meet the require ..."
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We provide an in-depth study of applying wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to real-world habitat monitoring. A set of system design requirements were developed that cover the hardware design of the nodes, the sensor network software, protective enclosures, and system architecture to meet

The Aurora Experimental Framework for the Performance Evaluation of Speech Recognition Systems under Noisy Conditions

by David Pearce, Hans-günter Hirsch, Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland Gmbh - in ISCA ITRW ASR2000 , 2000
"... This paper describes a database designed to evaluate the performance of speech recognition algorithms in noisy conditions. The database may either be used to measure frontend feature extraction algorithms, using a defined HMM recognition back-end, or complete recognition systems. The source speech f ..."
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was prepared as a contribution to the ETSI STQ-AURORA DSR Working Group[1]. Aurora is developing standards for Distributed Speech Recognition (DSR) where the speech analysis is done in the telecommunication terminal and the recognition at a central location in the telecom network. The framework is currently

Analysis of Recommendation Algorithms for E-Commerce

by Badrul Sarwar, George Karypis, Joseph Konstan, John Rield , 2000
"... Recommender systems apply statistical and knowledge discovery techniques to the problem of making product recommendations during a live customer interaction and they are achieving widespread success in E-Commerce nowadays. In this paper, we investigate several techniques for analyzing large-scale pu ..."
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the web-purchasing transaction of a large E-commerce company whereas the second data set was collected from MovieLens movie recommendation site. For the experimental purpose, we divide the recommendation generation process into three sub processes{ representation of input data, neighborhood formation

Nonlinear component analysis as a kernel eigenvalue problem

by Bernhard Schölkopf, Alexander Smola, Klaus-Robert Müller - , 1996
"... We describe a new method for performing a nonlinear form of Principal Component Analysis. By the use of integral operator kernel functions, we can efficiently compute principal components in high-dimensional feature spaces, related to input space by some nonlinear map; for instance the space of all ..."
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We describe a new method for performing a nonlinear form of Principal Component Analysis. By the use of integral operator kernel functions, we can efficiently compute principal components in high-dimensional feature spaces, related to input space by some nonlinear map; for instance the space of all

Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis

by Dorin Comaniciu, Peter Meer - In PAMI , 2002
"... A general nonparametric technique is proposed for the analysis of a complex multimodal feature space and to delineate arbitrarily shaped clusters in it. The basic computational module of the technique is an old pattern recognition procedure, the mean shift. We prove for discrete data the convergence ..."
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A general nonparametric technique is proposed for the analysis of a complex multimodal feature space and to delineate arbitrarily shaped clusters in it. The basic computational module of the technique is an old pattern recognition procedure, the mean shift. We prove for discrete data

The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex “Frontal Lobe” tasks: a latent variable analysis

by Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson, Alexander H. Witzki, Amy Howerter, Tor D. Wager - COGNIT PSYCHOL , 2000
"... This individual differences study examined the separability of three often postulated executive functions—mental set shifting ("Shifting"), information updating and monitoring ("Updating"), and inhibition of prepotent responses ("Inhibition")—and their roles in complex ..."
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"frontal lobe" or "executive" tasks. One hundred thirty-seven college students performed a set of relatively simple experimental tasks that are considered to predominantly tap each target executive function as well as a set of frequently used executive tasks: the Wisconsin Card

A Pairwise Key Pre-Distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks

by Wenliang Du, Jing Deng, Yunghsiang S. Han, Pramod K. Varshney, Jonathan Katz, Aram Khalili , 2003
"... this paper, we provide a framework in which to study the security of key pre-distribution schemes, propose a new key pre-distribution scheme which substantially improves the resilience of the network compared to previous schemes, and give an in-depth analysis of our scheme in terms of network resili ..."
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this paper, we provide a framework in which to study the security of key pre-distribution schemes, propose a new key pre-distribution scheme which substantially improves the resilience of the network compared to previous schemes, and give an in-depth analysis of our scheme in terms of network
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