ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
An adaptive design for multi-arm clinical trials
Authors: Z. D. Bai, Feifang Hu, Liang Shen
Venue: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (2002)

The randomized play-the-winner (RPW) rule is very useful in clinical trials for patient allocation with two treatments. L.J. Wei (1979, Ann. Statist. 7, 291-296) introduces the generalized Friedman's urn (GFU) model to clinical trials of K treatments (as an extension of the RPW). In this paper, we propose a new adaptive design for multi-arm clinical trials. The proposed adaptive design proportionally depends on the success rates of each treatment, so that a treatment which is doing well is more likely to be assigned in future trials than a treatment which is doing poorly. The new design is more reasonable although it is no longer a GFU model. In the paper we show that the new design has some desirable asymptotic properties and that it has wider and easier applications in practice. Some simulations also support this new design.
Modeling Instrumental Rationality, Land Tenure and ConflictResolution
Authors: Hans M. Amman, Anantha Kumar Duraiappah
Venue: Computational Economics (2001)

Full instrumental rationality and perfect institutions are two cornerstone assumptions underlying neoclassical models. However, in the real world, these two assumptions never hold, especially not in developing countries. In this paper, we develop a game theoretical model to investigate if relaxations in the full instrumental rationality and perfect institutions premise can explain the conflicts that have been occurring between the various principals in the Narok district in Kenya with regard to land tenure and use.
A case study in pervasive retail
Authors: George Roussos, Juha Tuominen, Leda Koukara, Olli Seppala, Panos Kourouthanasis, George Giaglis, Jeroen Frissaer
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Mobile commerce (2002)

In this paper we discuss the rationale for the development of MyGrocer, a second-generation pervasive retail system, as well as its implications for the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. We will only touch upon the technology infrastructure and the required technical developments since these have been discussed extensively elsewhere. The focus here is on the one hand, on the analysis of the business forces that dictate the development of pervasive retail and on the other, the implications and the opportunities for innovative business models offered by the dis-intermediation effect of pervasive retail on the supply chain of FMCG. The MyGrocer system has undergone two phases of field-testing and is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year. The development of the MyGrocer architecture is a collaborative effort between industry and academia within Europe.
Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics, 2nd edition
Authors: Andy Shafran
Venue:  (1998)

:Building great looking web pages is all about creating Web Graphics that work. With the powerful and flexible Paint Shop Pro(PSP), a painting and image editing program by Jasc Software Inc., anyone can build and edit banners, backgrounds, icons, and photographs for their personal and business Web sites. Whether you want to learn the latest features in Paint Shop Pro 5 or practice using a digital camera, Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics, Second Edition is the perfect book to handle all of your graphic needs. Hundreds of pages of full color examples teaching you the ins and outs of Paint Shop Pro Create vivid buttons, headlines, and icons using new interactive techniques Learn how to use PSP Picture Tubes, deformation, and special effects for amazing and colorful graphics Use the latest in scanner and digital camera technology to edit snd customize your photos
Time Changes, Laplace Transforms and Path-Dependent Options
Authors: Hélyette Geman
Venue: Computational Economics (2001)

Path-dependent options have become increasingly popular over the last few years, in particular in FX markets, because of the greater precision with which they allow investors to choose or avoid exposure to well-defined sources of risk. The goal of the paper is to exhibit the power of stochastic time changes and Laplace transform techniques in the evaluation and hedging of path-dependent options in the Black&ndash;Scholes&ndash;Merton setting. We illustrate these properties in the specific case of Asian options and continuously (de-) activating double-barrier options and show that in both cases, the pricing and, just as important, the hedging results are more accurate than the ones obtained through Monte Carlo simulations.
Using Microsoft Office 97
Authors: Nelson Howell, Wayne Freeze, Jill T. Freeze
Venue:  (1997)

:Extensive and complete information on how to integrate solutions created with each application across the entire suite, including general strategy for recognizing interoperability between applications, thus increasing user productivity Essential features of such applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access) discussed, insuring reader has solid grounding in all the new Office 97 suite features Additional functionality included with Office 97 apps (Web interoperability, various Wizards) also discussed to empower users to create the most dynamic, efficient documents Timely coverage of newer topics/enhanced functionality of Office 97 increases ability of book to fill market-sensitive needs Comprehensive index, and complete cross-referencing insures readers will find the best, most applicable information to help complete their tasksProvides extensive and complete information on how to integrate solutions created with each application across the entire suite, including general strategy for recognizing interoperability between applicationsDiscusses essential features of the applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access), ensuring reader has solid grounding in all the new Office 97 suite featuresFeatures a comprehensive index and complete cross-referencing for easy access to the best, most applicable information
Discriminative motifs
Authors: Saurabh Sinha
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

This paper takes a new view of motif discovery, addressing a common problem in existing motif finders. A motif is treated as a feature of the input promoter regions that leads to a good classifier between these promoters and a set of background promoters. This perspective allows us to adapt existing methods of feature selection, a well studied topic in machine learning, to motif discovery. We develop a general algorithmic framework that can be specialized to work with a wide variety of motif models, including consensus models with degenerate symbols or mismatches, and composite motifs. A key feature of our algorithm is that it measures over-representation while maintaining information about the distribution of motif instances in individual promoters. The assessment of a motif's discriminative power is normalized against chance behaviour by a probabilistic analysis. We apply our framework to two popular motif models, and are able to detect several known binding sites in sets of co-regulated genes in yeast.
User centred virtual actor technology
Authors: Daphne Economou, William Mitchell, Steve Pettifer, Jon Cook, James Marsh
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage (2001)

This paper argues that the development of virtual actor technology must be guided by application and end user needs. Two objectives drive the development of the 'Senet' project described in this paper: to develop a set of design guidelines for the use of virtual actors in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) for learning, and to inform the development of the underlying virtual actor technology following a user centred approach. The methodological approach followed involves the development of prototype virtual learning environments in a series of distinct phases. These are based on an ancient Egyptian game (senet) and are aimed at children at Key Stage Level 2 of the National Curriculum for education in England. Two-dimensional multimedia technology has been used to develop robust prototypes, which were then observed in use by children. The result of this study derived a set of design guidelines, which were then used to guide the implementation of a 3D CVE using the Deva CVE technology.
AutoCAD LT 2000: Basics through Advanced, 1st edition
Authors: David A. Madsen, Rawls
Venue:  (2000)

:AutoCAD LT&#153 is a 2D version of the full AutoCAD software. This powerful and affordable drafting tool, which has all 2D and some 3D features of the full AutoCAD package, is perfect for educational and business applications. AutoCAD LT&#153 2000: Basics Through Advanced demonstrates this powerful tool in a clear and concise manner, focusing on the highest professional standards. This textbook takes students through the systematic use of AutoCAD LT&#153 2000 with emphasis on the proper use of drafting standards in several key disciplines, including mechanical, architectural, electrical/electronic, civil, pipe drafting, and graphic design. Each chapter contains frequent practice exercises, allowing you to perform what you have just learned. All methods of accessing AutoCAD LT&#153 2000 commands are explained. These are some of the outstanding features of the book: Through the Window: Tips and tricks for using Windows 98 and NT with AutoCAD LT&#153 2000 Field Notes: These provide a variety of professional shortcuts, advanced applications, and additional instruction. Screen displays and illustrations: Placed with the discussion of every topic, these figures clearly demonstrate the commands and content. Learning Checkpoints: This unique feature provides questions after each related content area. This allows you to build confidence by checking your progress. Tests and matching and identification exercises: Each chapter has these features to assist you in mastering the material in a variety of ways. Projects: Practical drafting projects areprovided at the end of each chapter for you to use AutoCAD LT&#153 2000 in the discipline of your choice in real-world applications. Contents: This text covers every aspect of AutoCAD LT&#153 2000, including an introduction to computer hardware and the operating system; setting up and saving drawings; drawing of all typical objects; drawing display control; using layers; linetypes, and colors; precision drafting tools; editing the drawing; polylines and double lines; text; hatch and graphic design; dimensioning; designing custom symbols; multiview layout; 3D drafting; file management; using the Internet with AutoCAD LT&#153 2000; accessibility options for students with special needs; and customizing AutoCAD LT&#153. The Companion Website includes review questions and activities to accompany the material and activities in the text. The Instructor's Resource Manual includes additional multiple-choice tests, crossword puzzles, word finds, test answers, and exercise and project solutions.
A Guide to Oracle 8, 1st edition
Authors: Joline Morrison, Mike Morrison
Venue:  (2000)

:"A Guide to Oracle 8" has two running cases that make learning Oracle more interesting and easy to follow. Each chapter includes several hands-on projects that give users meaningful practice. There are also "Help?" notes that guide the user through technical terrain. The book covers the latest release of Developer! Other topics covered include PL/SQL, client-server systems, and relational databases.
PI-Calculus: A Theory of Mobile Processes
Authors: Davide Sangiorgi, David Walker
Venue:  (2001)

:Mobile systems, whose components communicate and change their structure, now pervade the informational world and the wider world of which it is a part. The science of mobile systems is as yet immature, however. This book presents the pi-calculus, a theory of mobile systems. The pi-calculus provides a conceptual framework for understanding mobility, and mathematical tools for expressing systems and reasoning about their behaviors. The book serves both as a reference for the theory and as an extended demonstration of how to use pi-calculus to describe systems and analyze their properties. It covers the basic theory of pi-calculus, typed pi-calculi, higher-order processes, the relationship between pi-calculus and lambda-calculus, and applications of pi-calculus to object-oriented design and programming. The book is written at the graduate level, assuming no prior acquaintance with the subject, and is intended for computer scientists interested in mobile systems.
A statistical method for the assessment of 3-D medical image registration
Authors: Hongshu Wang, Dagan Feng, Sung-Cheng Huang
Venue: Selected papers from the Pan-Sydney workshop on Visualisation - Volume 2 (2000)

It is of great interest to provide statistical information of image registration results. We recently proposed a novel automatic approach based on statistical theory to estimate confidence intervals of the parameters in 2-D registrations. In this paper, the theory has been extended to more sophisticated conditions in the current 3-D phantom study. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations have been conducted and the results are consistent with the calculated confidence intervals when different amounts of displacement and smoothing are presented. The predicted 95% confidence intervals have less than 20% errors in their sizes under noise levels encountered in practice. By properly removing the systematic errors, the new theory works well even when large amounts of noise and grey value inconsistency are present in the images. Our results suggest that the use of the statistical confidence intervals can provide an objective assessment for 3-D image registration results.
MAC OS X 10.1
Authors: Maria Langer
Venue:  (2002)

:Now that every new Macintosh computer ships with Mac OS X 10.1, you need Mac OS X 10.1: Visual QuickStart Guide to show you how to get the most out of Apple's radically redesigned operating system. Responding to user input on the initial release of OS X, Apple has improved the already-gorgeous Aqua user interface and added a number of enhancements--all of which veteran Mac author Maria Langer walks you through in this Visual QuickStart Guide.Offering the detailed, step-by-step instructions and plentiful visual aids that have become hallmarks of the VQS series, Mac OS X 10.1: Visual QuickStart Guide provides everything you need to know to install, configure, and use the OS and its accompanying software. Before you know it, you'll be burning CDs, watching DVD movies, customizing your Dock, sharing files across networks, and more--all on an operating system that has the power, stability, and security of Unix at its core.
A History of Control Engineering 1930-1955, 1st edition
Authors: Stuart Bennett
Venue:  (1993)

:A survey of advances in the field of control engineering from 1930 to 1955, which traces the development of servomechanisms and the electronic negative feedback amplifier, and describes organizations which were developed during World War II to deal with industrial applications.
ARS Electronica: Facing the Future
Authors: Ars Electronica
Venue:  (1999)

:For the past two decades the Austrian-based Ars Electronica, Festival for Art, Technology, and Society has played a pivotal role in the development of electronic media. Linking artistic practice and critical theory, the annual festival and symposium bring together scientists, philosophers, sociologists, and artists in an ongoing discourse on the effects of digital media on creativity--and on culture itself. Since Ars Electronica's inception, the evolution of the artistic, historical, and theoretical works presented has been documented in a series of publications that remain crucial to any understanding of media art. Drawing on the abundant and inventive resources of those publications and on Ars Electronica's archives, this anthology collects the essential works that form the core of a contemporary art long dismissed as too technical or inaccessible. The book includes a critical introduction, full bibliography, and texts and artworks from the key figures in the field. Among the many contributors are Robert Adrian, Roy Ascott, Jean Baudrillard, Heidi Grundmann, Donna Haraway, Kathy Huffman, Friedrich Kittler, Knowbotic Research, Myron Kruger, Laurent Migonneau, Sadie Plant, Florian R&ouml;tzer, Paul Sermon, Carl Sims, Christa Sommerer, Woody Vasulka, Paul Virilio, Peter Weibel, and Gene Youngblood. This is the inaugural book in the new series Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice.
A retargetable compilation methodology for embedded digital signal processors using a machine-dependent code optimizaton library
Authors: Ashok Sudarsanam, Sharad Malik, Masahiro Fujita
Venue: Readings in hardware/software co-design (2001)

We address the problem of code generation for embedded DSP systems. Such systems devote a limited quantity of silicon to program memory, so the embedded software must be sufficiently dense. Additionally, this software must be written so as to meet various high-performance constraints. Unfortunately, current compiler technology is unable to generate dense, high-performance code for DSPs, due to the fact that it does not provide adequate support for the specialized architectural features of DSPs via machine-dependent code optimizations. Thus, designers often program the embedded software in assembly, a very time-consuming task. In order to increase productivity, compilers must be developed that are capable of generating high-quality code for DSPs. The compilation process must also be made retargetable, so that a variety of DSPs may be efficiently evaluated for potential use in an embedded system. We present a retargetable compilation methodology that enables high-quality code to be generated for a wide range of DSPs. Previous work in retargetable DSP compilation has focused on complete automation, and this desire for automation has limited the number of machine-dependent optimizations that can be supported. In our efforts, we have given code quality higher priority over completed automation. We demonstrate how by using a library of machine-dependent optimization routines accessible via a programming interface, it is possible to support a wide range of machine-dependent optimizations, albeit at some cost to automation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our methodology, which has been uses to build good-quality compilers for three fixed-point DSPs.
GSM, cdmaOne and 3G Systems
Authors: Raymond Steele, Peter Gould, Chin-Chun Lee
Venue:  (2000)

From the Book:...Providing a detailed description and analysis of the global second generation (2G) mobile radio systems: the Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM) and cdmaOne, this volume examines how these two systems will evolve into the third generation (3G) with their requirement to support multimedia mobile radio communications. The principle objectives of this book are to present to the reader detailed descriptions of the basic GSM and cdmaOne systems, mainly from the radio interface point of view; as well as accompanying analyses. GSM was deployed before cdmaOne and is the market leader, entrenched in many parts of the world. Its success is due to numerous factors: its advanced backbone network, the introduction of subscriber identity modules (SIMs) that decoupled handsets from subscribers, its good security system, the low cost equipment due to open (i.e. public) interfaces, the relentless programme of evolution that has yielded substantial gains in spectral efficiency compared with the basic GSM system, and so on. cdmaOne started as a radio interface. It was a bold step to use CDMA at a time when few thought CDMA could work in a cellular environment. But it did so, acquiring the necessary backbone network, and became a global standard offering tough competition to GSM. It is also worthy of note that Europe, which had designed and promoted GSM, has opted for wideband CDMA for its third generation (3G) networks. The first chapter is designed to provide background material on TDMA, CDMA and cellular radio networks. Chapter 2 describes the basic GSM system and Chapter 3 provides an analysis of the performance of GSM networks. The same method of system description followed by a chapter dedicated to mathematical analysis is applied for cdmaOne in Chapters 4 and 5, respectively. The final chapter endeavours to describe how GSM is evolving to provide higher bit rate circuit-switched channels and packet transmissions that will have an ability to provide a range of multimedia services. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is then described, followed by a discussion of the evolution of cdmaOne to cdma2000. Both UMTS and cdma2000 are 3G systems....
Ceramics and ceramic matrix composites: finite element and boundary element analyses a bibliography (1998-2000)
Authors: Jaroslav Mackerle
Venue: Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (2002)

This bibliography contains references to papers, conference proceedings and theses/dissertations dealing with FEM and BEM analyses of ceramics and ceramic matrix composites that were published in 1998-2000.
Workflow enactment with continuation and future objects
Authors: Dragos A. Manolescu
Venue: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2002)

An increasing number of software developers are turning to workflow to separate the logic and the control aspects in their applications, thus making them more amenable to change. However, in spite of recent efforts to standardize and provide reusable workflow components, many developers build their own. This is a challenging endeavor and involves solving problems which seem incompatible with the object paradigm and current object-oriented programming languages. In the context of an object-oriented workflow framework, this paper demonstrates a novel approach that resolves this impedance mismatch with techniques drawn from programming language theory. This successful cross-pollination narrows the gap between the results of decades of research in programming languages and developers working hard to cope with change.
X Window System User's Guide
Authors: Uday O. Pabrai, Hemant T. Shah
Venue:  (1994)

:The only book to bring the end user step-by-step through the configuration of X Windows on PC, Macintosh, X terminal and UNIX systems, this A-to-Z guide to X Windows provides comprehensive coverage of the vital end user issues  system administration and usage, troubleshooting, security, customization, and performance.
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Venue: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (2002)

Welcome to the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management! The organizers and sponsors of CIKM'02 join me in the hope that this conference proves to be an opportunity for the sharing of knowledge, and the creation and renewal of friendships.The first CIKM conference took place about ten years ago. In cybertime that is truly ancient history, and you may agree that the world has changed in many ways since then. One thing that has not changed is the need for scientists to meet each other, to exchange ideas, and to welcome new members of the scientific community. To the extend that CIKM does this, it serves its purpose.
Developing Visual Basic Add-Ins, 1st edition
Authors: Steven Roman
Venue:  (1998)

:A tutorial and reference guide in one, this book covers all the basicsof creating useful VB add-ins to extend the IDE, allowing developers to work more productively with Visual Basic. Readers with even a modest acquaintance with VB will be developing add-ins in no time. Includes numerous simple code examples.