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The Detection of Outlying Fire Service’s Reports

We present a methodology for improving the detection of outlying Fire Service’s reports based on domain knowledge and dialogue with Fire & Rescue domain experts. The outlying report is considered as element which is significantly different from the remaining data. Outliers are defined and searched on the basis of domain knowledge and dialogue with experts. We face the problem of reducing high data dimensionality without loosing specificity and real complexity of reported incidents. We solve this problem by introducing a knowledge based generalization level intermediating between analysed data and experts domain knowledge. In the methodology we use the Formal Concept Analysis methods for both generation appropriate categories from data and as tools supporting communication with domain experts. We conducted two experiments in finding two types of outliers in which outliers detection was supported by domain experts.
UŽIVATELSKÉ TESTOVÁNÍ A OPTIMALIZACE VIZUALIZACÍ NEJISTOTY PROSTOROVÝCH DAT

Prace je zaměřena na problematiku znazorněni kvality prostorových dat. Hlavnim cilem je provedeni uživatelskeho testovani a nasledne optimalizace vzniklých a nově vytvořených vizualizaci. Soucasti prace jsou sestavene kartograficke znakove sady vhodne pro znazorněni nejistoty. Take dochazi k posouzeni způsobu provedeni mapove kompozice, předevsim podoby legendy. Pro vyhodnoceni vhodnosti navržených řeseni doslo k provedeni uživatelskeho testovani ve formě dotaznikove setřeni a eye-tracking experimentu. Výsledky obsahuji vyhodnoceni parametru vnimane vhodnosti a kognitivnich metrik. Na zakladě nich jsou doporuceny nejvhodnějsi metody a způsoby provedeni map pro znazorněni nejistoty s kladeným důrazem na intuitivnost. Take dochazi ke shrnuti zavěrů studii, ktere se danou problematikou doposud zabývaly.
DESIGN OF A LARGE, HIGH RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE †

An ion microprobe intended for the analysis of natural silicates requires both high mass resolution, to separate interferences in the complex secondary ion spectra, and high sensitivity to enable detection of trace elements and accurate measurement of isotope ratios. An instrument designed to have a sensitivity comparable to existing lowresolution machines while operating with a resolution of M/! M = 10 4 is now under construction in the Research School of Earth Sciences in Canberra. In order to satisfy the above criteria a large instrument, having a magnet radius of 1m, is considered necessary. Fabrication of the component parts is now approaching completion and the assembly and testing of the system is expected to begin shortly.
Stochastic Iterative Algorithms for Signal Set Design for Gaussian Channels and the L 2 Signal Set

Filtering), Professor John Kieffer presented the students with some teaching materials. Among these was a discussion of the problem of optimal signal set design and the simplex conjecture, a long-standing conjecture in communications. Steiner's recent counterexample was also cited. This material aroused my interest in the problem of optimal signal set design. Later, Professor John Kieffer became my advisor during my Ph.D. studies and signal set design for Gaussian noise channels became the topic of my doctoral thesis. I would like to thank my advisor Professor John Kieffer for his introduction to me of the simplex conjecture. Without his introduction, I would not have known Steiner's work. I would also like to thank Professor John Kieffer for interesting discussions and his valuable suggestions in the thesis work. I am also very grateful to my advisor Professor John Kieffer for his help in non-academic as well as academic matters. My co-advisor Professor Laurie Nelson guided me in understanding and arousing interest in CDMA and wireless communications, which will benefit me forever in my professional career. Du carefully read this thesis and gave me many detailed valuable revising comments. Abstract This thesis consists of two parts. In the first part, the stochastic iteration approach is proposed for signal set design. A fundamental stochastic iterative algorithm without energy constraint is proposed, which models a stochastic dynamic system using the detection probability of a signal set as energy function. Based on this fundamental algorithm, four practical stochastic iterative algorithms are proposed with respect to two energy constraints (the average energy constraint and the equal energy constraint) and two operation modes (sequential mode and batch mode). To study the performance of these proposed algorithms, many simulation experiments are carried out. Among these simulation experiments are the studies of almost all existing theoretical results, which include the optimality of the L1 signal set (consisting of a pair of antipodal signals and some zero signals), the optimality of the L2 signal set (consisting of three signals located at the vertices of an equilateral triangle and some zero signals), the truth of the weak simplex conjecture and two of Dunbridge's theorems. The L2 signal set is newly discovered by the simulation and its optimality is shown in this thesis. Given the same conditions as those in the above theoretical results, the proposed algorithms always converge to the signal set proved optimal in theory. The influence of SNR and …
Dentifrice Containing Extract of Rosmar inus o f f i c ina l i s Linn . : An Ant imicrob ia l Eva luat ion

alcoholic extract of rosemary on oral bacteria, compared to a commercially available herbal dentifrice. Standard strains of Streptococcus mutans (ATCC 25175), Streptococcus oralis (ATCC 9811) and Lactobacillus rhamnosus (ATCC 7469) were used, as well as different toothpastes based on rosemary (TR), on propolis (TH), triclosan (positive control) (TPC) and non-fluoridated dentifrice (negative control) (TNC). Bacteria were seeded in Petri dishes and paper discs soaked with dilutions of dentifrice placed on the plates. The inhibition halos were analyzed. It was observed that TR did not show statistical difference in relation to the TH to inhibit S. mutans and S. oralis, while TH was more active against L. rhamnosus. The toothpaste containing rosemary extract had the ability to inhibit the growth of S. mutans, S. oralis and L. rhamnosus, revealing an antimicrobial activity similar to commercially available toothpastes for inhibition of S. mutans and S. oralis. Dentifrice Containing Extract of Rosmar inus o f f i c ina l i s Linn . : An Ant imicrob ia l Eva luat ion
On Editing and Contributing to a Field: The Everyday Work of Editors

Why would scholars become editors? Why would teachers? As coeditors of Computers and Composition and several book series that focus on the uses of computers in educational settings, we often hear these questions from knowledgeable colleagues and graduate students. As these individuals know, academic editors often go unpaid and underappreciated for their labor, which frequently keeps them from tending to their own scholarly projects. Further, the job of editing includes much that could be construed as mundane—organizing and hounding busy reviewers, photocopying and filing manuscripts, writing letters, corresponding with publishers over the minutiae of proofs and permissions. Moreover, editors risk being described by fellow scholars and teachers as undiscriminating, willfully obtuse, or enamored of the role of gatekeeper. When talking to graduate students about these very real perspectives, however, we also take care to describe how the editor’s desk can be a powerful intellectual forge — an environment where theory and politics bump up against the pragmatic practices of a profession, where the vision of a discipline’s future and potential both shapes and influences its present concerns. Those who occupy such a desk, we contend, can affect a discipline in very productive ways, even though they face an enormous set of challenges—just a few of which include providing a historical tracing of a discipline or field; helping to chart productive directions for its many possible futures; representing, in responsible ways, its breadth and depth, agreements and arguments; and providing a public venue where the voices of the old guard and newcomers alike mingle to create the rich chorus of a field’s knowledge.
2-D tomography of volcanic CO 2 from scanning hard-target differential absorption lidar : the case of Solfatara , Campi Flegrei ( Italy )

Solfatara is part of the active volcanic zone of Campi Flegrei (Italy), a densely populated urban area where ground uplift and increasing ground temperature are observed, connected with rising rates of CO2 emission. A major pathway of CO2 release at Campi Flegrei is diffuse soil degassing, and therefore quantifying diffuse CO2 emission rates is of vital interest. Conventional in situ probing of soil gas emissions with accumulation chambers is accurate over a small footprint but requires significant time and effort to cover large areas. An alternative approach is differential absorption lidar, which allows for a fast and spatially integrated measurement. Here, a portable hard-target differential absorption lidar has been used to acquire horizontal 1-D profiles of column-integrated CO2 concentration at the Solfatara crater. To capture heterogenic features in the CO2 distribution, a 2-D tomographic map of the CO2 distribution has been inverted from the 1-D profiles. The scan was performed one-sided, which is unfavorable for the inverse problem. Nonetheless, the result is in agreement with independent measurements and furthermore confirms an area of anomalous CO2 degassing along the eastern edge as well as the center of the Solfatara crater. The method may have important implications for measurements of degassing features that can only be accessed from limited angles, such as airborne sensing of volcanic plumes. CO2 fluxes retrieved from the 2-D map are comparable, but modestly higher than emission rates from previous studies, perhaps reflecting an increase in CO2 flux or a more integrated measurement or both.
Parenting Goals of Mothers and Fathers of Toddlers and Preschoolers and Mothers and Fathers of Adolescents

Parenting is one of the most influential as well as modifiable factors influencing healthy child development (Grusec, 2011; Sanders, 2012). This dissertation includes two studies that were designed to broaden our understanding of parenting in developmental periods widely recognized to present parenting challenges: Study 1 focused on the toddler and preschool years (Crnic & Low, 2002; Kwon, Han, Jeon, & Bingham, 2013) and Study 2 focused on adolescence (Eisenberg et al., 2008; Laursen & Collins, 2009). Both studies involve analysis of data on self-reported parenting responses and parenting goals, as well as parent-rated child adjustment from community samples of mothers and fathers. In the first study parenting similarity in the parenting responses and parenting goals of mothers and fathers of toddlers and preschoolers were examined. As well, I examined whether these were linked to parents’ ratings of their children’s adjustment on the Child Behavior Checklist Preschool form (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). In addition, I examined whether there were differences between parenting situations involving child misbehaviour and child withdrawn behaviour. Participants were 148 families of children aged between 18 months and 60 months. Parenting similarity was found both for parenting responses and for parenting goals. However, neither similarity in parenting responses or parenting goals differed for situations involving child misbehaviour versus child withdrawn behaviour. Furthermore, parenting similarity in parenting responses and parenting goals were not found to be related to each other or to child adjustment. The second study was conducted with mothers and fathers of adolescents and was designed to extend on the work of Hastings and Grusec (1998). In this study I also examined parenting similarity in parenting responses and parenting goals. Participants were 285 parents of adolescents aged 14 to 17 years old (mothers n = 213, fathers n = 68, dyads n = 43). Parenting goals were influenced by characteristics of the situation, but not by parent or Parenting Goals of Mothers and Fathers iii adolescent gender. Parenting goals were not related to parents’ ratings of their adolescent children’s adjustment on the Child Behavior Checklist School Age form (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001). As in the first study, I found parenting similarity for parenting responses and parenting similarity for parenting goals, but the two types of similarity were not related to each other. The findings with respect to parenting goals indicate that there is insufficient evidence to justify future parenting goals studies given the limitations of the extant methodology for measuring them. Future parenting similarity studies that use statistical analyses, such as cluster analyses, that allow for the examination of the links between specific parenting similarity (e.g., having two parents that are authoritative vs. two that are authoritarian) and child adjustment hold promise for informing clinical practice with families. Parenting Goals of Mothers and Fathers iv
Normalized Web Distance Based Web Query Classification

Problem statement: The problem is to classify a given web query to a set of 67 target categories. The target categories are ranked based on the degree of similarity to a given query. Approach: The feature set is the set of intermediate categories retrieved from a directory search engine for a given query. Using direct mapping and Normalized Web Distance (NWD) the intermediate categories are mapped to the required target categories. The categories are then ranked based on three parameters of the intermediate categories namely, position, frequency and a combination of frequency and position. Results: The results proved that the third parameter gave a better result and a maximum of 40 search result pages ensure better results. Conclusion: With NWD as the similarity measure, the precision and recall is found to increase by 10% over the previous methods.
Dynamic extraction of visual evoked potentials through spatial analysis and dipole localization

The dynamic extraction of evoked potential is a problem of great interest in EEG signal processing. Here, a comprehensive method is presented which integrates spatial analysis and dipole localization to make full use of the spatial-temporal information contained in the multichannel stimulation records. A realistic double boundary head model is constructed through CT scans and a two-step method devised to overcome the ill-posed nature of the forward problem of EEG caused by the low conductivity of the skull. As a result, visual evoked potentials can be effectively extracted from only two consecutive records and the dynamic information of visual evoked potential thus procured. The efficiency of the presented method has been verified by means of computer simulation and a clinical experiment. <<ETX>>
THEORY-BASED BAYESIAN MODELS OF INDUCTIVE INFERENCE Final Technical Report

Our research aims to develop computational models of mducüve inference m higher-level human cognmon. specifically the ability to generally from sparse, noisy, ambiguous data, and to build more human-like machine learning systems Work has focused on two areas of cogranon learning about categories and their properties, and learning about relational structures -specifically, systems of causal and social relations We have developed a theory-based Bayesian framework for modeling these learning tasks as statistical inference over hierarchies of structured knowledge representations Our models have made several contributions First, they have explained a broad range of phenomena with high quantitative accuracy, using a minimum of free parameters Second, they have provided a rational framework for explaining how and why everyday induction works, m terms of approximations to optimal statistical inference m natural environments Third, they have provided tools for elucidating people's implicit theories about the structure of the world describing the form and content of the prior knowledge that guides mducüve inference and explaining how it may be acquired from experience Finally, our models have led to improved algorithms for machine learning of category structures and their property distributions, causal networks, and the structure of social relations, thus bringing artificial intelligence systems closer to the capacities of human intelligence at the same tone as they support a better understanding of human intelligence ID bUBJtUI ItMNIb
Academic Entrepreneurship and Financial Problems: The Capital Structure of the University Spin-Offs

The external environment in which universities carry out their activities has changed substantially in the last century. A historical milestone in this change was the publishing of Bush’s report in 1945. The fundamental principle of Bush’s report was simple: basic research discoveries will be converted via technology transfer to become powerful drivers of economic development and social welfare. Afterward, the mission of universities was no longer limited to teaching; in addition they must research (Valls and Condom, 2003).
Running head : BLENDED LEARNING : DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION 1 Blended Learning : Face-2Face + Intelligent Tutor System = Differentiated Math Instruction

A blended program integrating an Intelligent Tutor System (ITS) with face-to-face instruction provided differentiated instruction resulting in increased student achievement in mathematics, with the greatest gains made by students who initially scored at the below-basic level. Seventy-five ninth-grade students who experienced the blended learning program were the intervention group, while 99 ninth-grade students who experienced face-to-face instruction alone served as the comparison group. Flow Theory was used to explain how artificial intelligence used in ITS programs contributed to the improvement in student achievement, particularly for those students who began the program with learning gaps in mathematics. Teacher facilitators overcame challenges, developed protocols, and employed best practices to successfully implement the program.
Work values of women with differing sex-role orientations

Journal of Career Development, Vol. 15(3), Spring 1989 Career opportunities for women have expanded in recent years, yet women continue to choose careers traditionally occupied by females. Women continue to be employed in occupations that are traditionally female and low-paying (U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau, 1982). In 1981, 80% of all clerical workers, 62% of all service workers, and 63% of all retail sales workers were female (Diamond, 1984). An assumption underlying much of the research on the career development of women is that women’s values influence their career choices (Hansen, 1984; Lipman-Bluman, 1972; Psathas, 1968; Zytowski, 1969). Researchers have found that work values differ among women with different career orientations. Tinsley and Faunce (1980) found with the six factors on the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) that career-oriented women place more importance on the values of Management, Autonomy, Achievement, and Recognition compared to homemaker-oriented women. They found no differences between careerand homemaker-oriented women regarding the importance placed on the values of Conditions of Work or Altruism.
Regularization and the small-ball method I: sparse recovery

We obtain bounds on estimation error rates for regularization procedures of the form \begin{equation*} \hat f \in {\rm argmin}_{f\in F}\left(\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N\left(Y_i-f(X_i)\right)^2+\lambda \Psi(f)\right) \end{equation*} when $\Psi$ is a norm and $F$ is convex. Our approach gives a common framework that may be used in the analysis of learning problems and regularization problems alike. In particular, it sheds some light on the role various notions of sparsity have in regularization and on their connection with the size of subdifferentials of $\Psi$ in a neighbourhood of the true minimizer. As `proof of concept' we extend the known estimates for the LASSO, SLOPE and trace norm regularization.
Laboratory assessment of iron status and reticulocyte parameters in differential diagnosis of iron deficiency anemia and heterozygous beta-thalassemia

Introducao: A forma soluvel do receptor da transferrina (sTfR) tem sido indicada como um parâmetro util na avaliacao do estado do ferro e da atividade eritropoietica. Reticulocitos imaturos apresentam alta concentracao dos receptores de transferrina na sua membrana. Estudamos a correlacao entre sTfR e parâmetros reticulocitarios em pacientes com anemia ferropriva (AF) e com b-talassemia heterozigotica (b-tal hetero). Os parâmetros laboratoriais relacionados ao estado do ferro e reticulocitos foram estudados a fim de se estabelecer a utilidade clinica dos mesmos na distincao entre os dois tipos de anemia. Material e metodos: As medidas reticulocitarias foram obtidas usando-se um analisador hematologico semi-automatico, e as concentracoes de sTfR foram determinadas por tecnica imunoenzimatica. Foram estudados 49 pacientes com AF e 43 com b-tal hetero. Resultados: As contagens de reticulocitos e os valores de sTfR foram significativamente mais elevados na AF do que na b-tal hetero, mas o melhor parâmetro para diferenciar as duas anemias foi o indice de sTfR, obtido pela razao sTfR/ferritina. O compartimento de transporte foi mais bem avaliado pela dosagem de transferrina do que pela capacidade de ligacao do ferro a transferrina (TIBC). A associacao do ferro serico a medida de transferrina (indice de transferrina) melhorou a acuracia do teste de transferrina. Discussao: A correlacao entre reticulocitos imaturos e nivel de sTfR foi observada apenas no grupo com AF, sugerindo que a falta de ferro intracelular seja o principal fator responsavel pelo estimulo a sintese de sTfR nas celulas sanguineas imaturas. Os valores elevados de sTfR nos pacientes com b-tal hetero refletem um certo grau de eritropoiese ineficaz nessa hemoglobinopatia. Conclusao: Concluimos que as medidas de sTfR, ferritina e transferrina sao parâmetros uteis e precisos para diferenciar AF de b-tal hetero.
A Unified Framework for Understanding and Comparing Dynamic Wage and Price-Setting Models

This paper argues that the cross-sectional approach to durations is essential to understand nominal rigidity because this captures the fact that price-spells are generated by firms' price-setting behavior. Since the distribution of durations is dominated by a proliferation of short contracts, the cross-sectional measure corrects for this by length-biased sampling. Modelling the price-spell durations in this way enables us to see how Taylor, Calvo and their generalizations relate to each other, and enable us to compare price-setting behavior for a given distribution of durations. We also show how the micro-data can be directly related to the macroeconomic pricing models in this setting.