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This, I don't know why but hairylikebear seems to only be capable to deal in absolutes.
Seems more like you two that have this problem.
I'm not saying all earlier draft picks are better than all later draft picks, nor am I saying Yakupov is automatically the better player because of where he was drafted. What I am saying is that, every first overall forward picked in recent memory has been a better player than Benn is now at his age, and are typically on another level than Benn offensively, so the odds are that Yakupov will likely better.
If you can't compare Benn to the likes of Kane, Stamkos, Tavares, etc., then Yakupov's no different (being a 1st overall pick
nothing at all). And Benn has yet to really break out as well, and it's looking like he'll end up being right around a PPG big, hard-hitting two-way center. Yakupov would have to put himself into an elite tier to be more valuable than Benn.
I'm sure Edmonton would at least give him a chance in the NHL before trading him for a player who is not on the level of your typical first overall pick forward.
From 2001-2009 (2010 and 2011 are too recent to judge), 5 of the 7 forwards picked 1st overall are
better than Benn IMO (Kovalchuk, Ovechkin, Crosby, Stamkos, Tavares), I don't think that's an unfair assessment. I'm giving Benn the benefit of the doubt here, saying that he could possibly end up better than Nash and Kane. I just think it would be crazy to give up a player who was drafted 1st overall, for a player who is typically not on the level of the forwards drafted that high in recent memory, without ever giving him the chance to prove himself in the NHL.
That's a fair assessment, but if you think Yakupov is likely to join those first 5 you listed off, you really need to sit down and see just how elite that group is (I'm not saying Yakupov can't get there, but it's highly unlikely). Edmonton fans always complain about how he was projected to be a 50-50-100 guy before Edmonton got the pick, and then it tempered down. Have you ever thought that no matter what happened, his hype would've gone down? 50-50-100 is a huge expectation for any player outside of a Crosby or a McDavid-esque prospect.
And I said it would be immature to provide a counter-example where a player picked later is worth more because I'm not saying drafted higher = automatically has more value, I'm saying that draft position is a factor in trade value. I don't see what's so hard to understand about that. hairylikebear, why do only deal in absolutes? Why can you not just read what I post and take it at face value instead of trying to twist my words into something that I didn't say? It's really frustrating arguing with people like this, because they try to tell you what you're saying, and argue with that, rather than argue with what you actually say.
In 3 years, draft position will mean absolutely nothing to either player. 2009 for example. Scott Glennie was picked 8th overall, Tomas Vincour in the 5th round. If we didn't have both, I'd trade Glennie for Vincour in a heartbeat. Draft position really doesn't mean much once they hit the ice.
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This item from Politico's Morning Energy is classic greenie, 'screw the environment I've got a political gesture to make!':
LET THEM PLAY - Ed Markey isn't happy about the National Park Service's decision to bar the solar decathlon from D.C.'s National Mall this fall. The decathlon, a DOE contest where schools compete to build the best solar-powered homes, has displayed its finalists on the mall since 2002, but this year the park service denied organizers a permit because it said the event would conflict with a plan to restore the mall's turf, which has been trampled by concerts, marches and a complex intern mating ritual known as "kickball." Markey sent a letter Friday to Ken Salazar asking him to reverse the decision, saying the decision runs afoul of the administration's "win the future" clean-energy initiatives.
I wonder if the litter will be as bad as the Left's standard gathering of the Mall?
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Bush has been weakest in his political analysis – contending in a recent interview that even Reagan would have a "hard time" in the modern Republican Party, struggling against "an orthodoxy that doesn't allow for disagreement." This orthodoxy is strong – certainly stronger than when Reagan ran in 1980 on a gubernatorial record that included increases in corporate, income and inheritance taxes. But not strong enough to propel Ron Paul or Michele Bachmann to the GOP nomination. The two most recent Republican presidential nominees are John McCain and Mitt Romney. Republicans in Congress are led by Speaker John Boehner – who attempted a budget deal including tax increases – and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. These are hardly the four horsemen of the tea party apocalypse.
But Jeb Bush is correct in the outline of his main argument. The debt crisis is an existential threat to the American way of life. Addressing this vast structural problem will require a grand bargain including entitlement reform and higher revenue. Those who rule out the possibility of compromise as a matter of ideology are undermining the public interest. And if the outcome of this debate is determined by figures such as Norquist and Wasserman Schultz, all hope is lost.


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It is a BAD year to be Taylor Swift. The once angelic country pop savior with a broken heart has turned into the most humorless single white female ever and the rest of Hollywood has noticed and they DON'T like it.
Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and now Chelsea Handler are all throwing Taylor under the bus. Tina tells Taylor to grow up and Chelsea calls her a virgin.
By now, Taylor's Vanity Fair interview is the article heard round the world. In response to Amy and Tina's easy-breezy joke at the Golden Globes that Tay should stay away from Michael J. Fox's son, Taylor told them, "there's a special place in h*ll for women who don't help other women."
Amy tried to pseudo-apologize, but Tina basically said, take that stick out of you're a$$, Taylor. In so many words.
"If anyone was going to get mad at us, I thought it would be James Cameron…I did not see that one coming. It was a joke. It was a lighthearted joke," is exactly what Tina said.
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Fan to present Premier League trophy
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Sterling booed at awards
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Liverpool greats give views on Sterling
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Tue May 19 2015
Wenger - I don't listen to Jose
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger joked with reporters at a press conference that he doesn't pay attention to what other managers say - especially Jose Mourinho.
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McCall lauds impact of fans
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Warburton frustrated by Brentford exit
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Pizza's the chow of now, thanks in part to Flying Squirrel Pizza Co. It offers a few tables in shiny, crisply appointed new spaces and one-size pies for around $19 each, along with salads and apps and ice creams. (Molly Moon's!) But Flying Squirrel is all about artisan toppings—cured meats from Salumi, chicken from Roy's BBQ, Maytag blue cheese, and locally grown produce—on chewy, sinking crusts bound up with tangy tomato sauce.
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2012 Luxilon Playtest
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On Lxn fb page: "Tried the 4G (thanks for the shirt!) It was softer than what I am use to, but I am a fan of polys. So depending on the price I would try it again for sure."
This is the first tennis I've played since moving down to Raleigh, it's good that my girlfriend has enough time to play and help me test this out. I wonder how the huge increase in humidity affected this test, and how it will affect my game whenever I play outdoors...
I did a full set up of the poly, love the full goldish color. tension was at 57lbs, a normal tension for me but higher than normal for polys. I have been getting into kevlar hybrids between 57 and 63lbs, and believe it or not, my arm is just fine. I was using a Head TT Raddical Tour OS (199
for the test.
The power level was fine, since my higher stringing tension lowered the general power of the string. Since this was a softer poly, I did need to adjust to the swing power to play the ball the way i normally do. Full swings are a must.
As touched on before, it felt on the softer side of the polys ive used before. I playtested and loved the Beast XP string, and this was in the same ball park.
I was able to get about the same amount of spin from the polys i have used. I switched to kevlar because I can really feel the bite and see the spin, which wasnt happening with the poly all the time. I tend to hit flatter, but when wanting to, I was able to get a good amount of topspin for sure.
Being a softer poly, it was comfortable on the arm, but I prefer the firmer strings myself. Durability should be fine, I played about 2.5 hours in one shot with it and didn't notice anything that would suggest otherwise. Tension maintenance was about right for polys, but I don't pick up all that well on tension until the pop in my serve starts to go.
Control was there for the most part. Serving was fine, I was able to get some good spin while hitting my spots on the second serve. For the most part, I felt like I was able to get the ball to where I wanted to go as long as I was in position to do so.
Compared to the Kevlar/Syn gut hybrids I am using, the 4G has less bite, less pop, and less of the general feel I like. But it has more power, slightly more control, and more playability. I may recommend someone string it in the normal tension range (where my tension is prob higher than normal) to get the best results out of the poly.
Summary - I liked the spin off the serve. Didn't have the most pop ive ever played with, but was def up there with spin an placement. I did not like that it had less pop and was more mushy than my kevlar. There was no glaring weakness of the string, and if it were on the inexpensive side, like mentioned above, I would try it out again for sure.
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The American Idea
I was recently asked to sit on a panel discussing the Future of the American Idea, hosted by the Jack Kemp Foundation. I shared the panel with three very distinguished speakers in American political discourse: Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol, and Gary Kasparov. Thanks to my good friend Michelle Van Cleave for nominating me to be part of such a distinguished group. The below essay is essentially what I offered to the discussion.
I believe that the American Idea can be expressed in four key values: Courage, Idealism, New Beginnings, and Community. These values are epitomized in two very different, but quintessentially American communities – recently arrived immigrants, and the US military.
The story of Meb Keflezighi is a great example of how immigrants continue to embody the values of courage, idealism, new beginnings and community. Meb spent his childhood struggling to survive with his family in a village in war-torn Eritrea. After many years of courageous effort and persistence, his father succeeded in bringing Meb and his family to America, and with the help of the Eritrean-American community and their new American friends, Meb and his family were able to make a life for themselves in San Diego. Meb was 12 years old when he arrived, and speaking little to no English had to step up and adapt quickly to the new language and culture in San Diego. In school, he found that he had a talent for running, and after stellar performances at San Diego High School, he went on to attend UCLA and become an NCAA champion in multiple events. In 1998 he became an American citizen and represented the US in the Athens Olympics in 2004, bringing home a silver medal in the marathon to his adopted country. He has since become the first American in over 30 years to win the New York City marathon, and then, though given little chance for winning, became the first American in three decades to win the Boston Marathon in 2014.
When people claim that Meb is more African than American, he responds forcefully and proudly "I am an American!" When a friend of mine accompanied Meb to an Eritrean-American gathering in his honor, he was struck when the event began with the pledge-of-allegiance to the American flag. Meb's ten brothers and sisters have all attended college, to include some of the best institutions in the United States, a tribute to the courage, hard work, love and dedication of Meb's father and mother, and the support of their community.
My good friend Kim, a second generation Vietnamese-American has shared with me much of her life growing up in the very tightly knit Vietnamese-American community in Atlanta and Southern California. When new immigrants arrive from Vietnam, the Vietnamese-American community rallies behind them, with a strong sense of shared obligation to support new arrivals, and help them get on their feet and adjust. The Vietnamese American community holds new arrivals accountable for making their own way with the help they receive. They are expected to become contributing members of their communities and to represent the best of the values of the Vietnamese culture, while respecting, and adapting to the values and customs of their new country.
To Meb and Kim, and to the Eritrean and Vietnamese-American communities, America is still the land of unlimited opportunity, not of unlimited entitlements. The American Idea is still fresh, inspiring, and real – it hasn't become infected with disillusionment and cynicism. The stories of Meb, Kim, and so many other immigrants follow the pattern of many of our European-American forefathers who left "Old Europe" to begin anew in America. Our immigrant forefathers, and immigrants coming to America today, have all exhibited the courage and idealism to break from the old and venture into the unknown, to start over and build strong communities that reflect and embody the American Idea.
Similarly today, members of our military represent those same values. All have courageously volunteered to leave their old lives, to make new beginnings, and to accept the dangerous mission that serving in the military on behalf of America entails. The military culture is demanding, but it is also infused with idealism and optimism as it seeks to embody the values of honor, sacrifice, and service-above-self that represent the best in America and the best in its service members. Each of the military services actively strives to create a sense of community which holds its members accountable for pulling their own weight, for contributing to the greater good, and for representing the values that continue to make America a place where courageous idealists from around the world want to come to make a new beginning and build great communities.
The American Idea recognizes that some have not always been treated well on its behalf. African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans and others have legitimate grievances regarding how some have interpreted the American Idea. Past abuses cannot be undone, but they can be acknowledged, and lessons taken from them to help new generations to do better in the future as the American Idea evolves and becomes more inclusive.
The American Idea is not about looking backward with regret– it is about looking forward with optimism. It is about proudly proclaiming "I am an American!" and boldly stepping into the future, striving to live up to high ideals that make strong and vibrant communities, communities that sustain the American Idea that sustains us all.
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4 Comments on "The American Idea"
June 25, 2014 at 12:36 am
Hi Bob,
It is always very good to hear from you. I certainly do enjoy reading your articles. And I definitely agree with your perspectives and viewpoints. I have been wondering what you think about this new mess in Iraq? Isn't that terrible?
Being a helo guy I know and more particularly a helo guy on carriers I didn't spend that much time over the skies in Iraq but I know lots of people that were there and lots of people that have been involved and I'm sure many of the SEAL members as well as our Marine friends are feeling very sick about the whole mess.
It is also good to see that you are staying busy, I find myself about as busy as I want to be which means too busy. There have been lots of politics and games at work and now I just kind of take the cat bird seat and watch as things race by.
This is a very exciting week and weekend for us. Our son is getting married on Saturday night to a lovely person and we have lots of friends and family coming into town. I was hoping to go to SDMAC tomorrow morning because Vice Adm. McGinn is the guest speaker and he was my commanding officer during the Gulf War. But there are just too many things happening and sometimes you just have to know when to hold them and when to fold them.
So, maybe next month I will make it to a meeting and I will have to give you lots of warning in advance and maybe we can get together and catch up.
Keep up the wonderful writing and articles I sure do enjoy them and I also envy you it is an incredible talent.
Warmest regards,
June 25, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Congratulations on hanging around with classy company. Some heavy hitters there, can't hurt.
June 25, 2014 at 7:08 pm
Impressive observations….Thanks….it is a privilege to receive them.
Your comparison of the US military's culture to our immigrants' is inspiring. I will share with my nephew who is about to leave for Navy boot camp. He is young and "The American Idea" illustrates what he will be protecting.
June 28, 2014 at 5:49 pm
Hi Bob! Such a pleasure to hear of the way in which immigrants to the Us are welcomed and integrated into society. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case in U.K. ! There are many and varied reasons for this but it would take too long to enumerate them here so suffice to say that although I am in no way racist and always welcome the opportunity to get to know about other cultures. my main worry is that Britain is a small country and can't accommodate too many more people – indigenous or immigrant.
Already looking forward to your next article!


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Agent-Based Analysis of Biomass Feedstock Production Dynamics
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The success of the bioenergy sector based on lignocellulosic feedstock will require a sustainable and resilient transition from the current agricultural system focused on food crops to one also producing energy crops. The dynamics of this transition are not well understood. It will be driven significantly by the collective participation, behavior, and interaction of various stakeholders such as farmers within the production system. The objective of this work is to study the system dynamics through the development and application of an agent-based model using the theory of complex adaptive systems. Farmers and biorefinery, two key stakeholders in the system, are modeled as independent agents. The decision making of each agent as well as its interaction with other agents is modeled using a set of rules reflecting the economic, social, and personal attributes of the agent. These rules and model parameters are adapted from literature. Regulatory mechanisms such as Biomass Crop Assistance Program are embedded in the decision-making process. The model is then used to simulate the production of Miscanthus as an energy crop in Illinois. Particular focus has been given on understanding the dynamics of Miscanthus adaptation as an agricultural crop and its impact on biorefinery capacity and contractual agreements. Results showed that only 60% of the maximum regional production capacity could be reached, and it took up to 15 years to establish that capacity. A 25% reduction in the land opportunity cost led to a 63% increase in the steady- state productivity. Sensitivity analysis showed that higher initial conversion of land by farmers to grow energy crop led to faster growth in regional productivity.
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- Title
- Agent-Based Analysis of Biomass Feedstock Production Dynamics
- Journal
BioEnergy Research
Volume 4, Issue 4 , pp 258-275
- Cover Date
- 2011-12-01
- 10.1007/s12155-011-9139-1
- Print ISSN
- 1939-1234
- Online ISSN
- 1939-1242
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Agent-based model
- Bioenergy feedstock
- Dynamics
- Miscanthus
- Stakeholder
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Yogendra Shastri (1) (2)
- Luis Rodríguez (2)
- Alan Hansen (2)
- K. C. Ting (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- 2. Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA


text: DSpace Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/3687 2015-05-24T05:35:52Z PEM fuel cell fault diagnosis via a hybrid methodology based on fuzzy and pattern recognition techniques http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24153 Title: PEM fuel cell fault diagnosis via a hybrid methodology based on fuzzy and pattern recognition techniques Authors: Escobet Canal, Antoni; Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Múgica Álvarez, Francisco Abstract: In this work, a fault diagnosis methodology termed VisualBlock-Fuzzy Inductive Reasoning, i.e. VisualBlock-FIR, based on fuzzy and pattern recognition approaches is presented and applied to PEM fuel cell power systems. The innovation of this methodology is based on the hybridization of an artificial intelligence methodology that combines fuzzy approaches with well known pattern recognition techniques. To illustrate the potentiality of VisualBlock-FIR, a non-linear fuel cell simulator that has been proposed in the literature is employed. This simulator includes a set of five fault scenarios with some of the most frequent faults in fuel cell systems. The fault detection and identification results obtained for these scenarios are presented in this paper. It is remarkable that the proposed methodology compares favorably to the model-based methodology based on computing residuals while detecting and identifying all the proposed faults much more rapidly. Moreover, the robustness of the hybrid fault diagnosis methodology is also studied, showing good behavior even with a level of noise of 20 dB. Description: © IFAC 2014. This work is posted here by permission of IFAC for your personal use. Not for distribution. The original version was published in ifac-papersonline.net 2014-12-24T14:59:34Z Fuzzy inductive reasoning: a consolidated approach to data-driven construction of complex dynamical systems http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24006 Title: Fuzzy inductive reasoning: a consolidated approach to data-driven construction of complex dynamical systems Authors: Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Múgica Álvarez, Francisco Abstract: Fuzzy inductive reasoning (FIR) is a modelling and simulation methodology derived from the General Systems Problem Solver. It compares favourably with other soft computing methodologies, such as neural networks, genetic or neuro-fuzzy systems, and with hard computing methodologies, such as AR, ARIMA, or NARMAX, when it is used to predict future behaviour of different kinds of systems. This paper contains an overview of the FIR methodology, its historical background, and its evolution. 2014-09-09T08:54:01Z Effective classification and gene expression profiling for the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy http://hdl.handle.net/2117/23324 Title: Effective classification and gene expression profiling for the facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Authors: González Navarro, Félix Fernando; Belanche Muñoz, Luis Antonio; Silva Colón, Karen Andrea Abstract: The Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder whose incidence is estimated in about one in 400,000 to one in 20,000. No effective therapeutic strategies are known to halt progression or reverse muscle weakness and atrophy. It is known that the FSHD is caused by modifications located within a D4ZA repeat array in the chromosome 4q, while recent advances have linked these modifications to the DUX4 gene. Unfortunately, the complete mechanisms responsible for the molecular pathogenesis and progressive muscle weakness still remain unknown. Although there are many studies addressing cancer databases from a machine learning perspective, there is no such precedent in the analysis of the FSHD. This study aims to fill this gap by analyzing two specific FSHD databases. A feature selection algorithm is used as the main engine to select genes promoting the highest possible classification capacity. The combination of feature selection and classification aims at obtaining simple models (in terms of very low numbers of genes) capable of good generalization, that may be associated with the disease. We show that the reported method is highly efficient in finding genes to discern between healthy cases (not affected by the FSHD) and FSHD cases, allowing the discovery of very parsimonious models that yield negligible repeated cross-validation error. These models in turn give rise to very simple decision procedures in the form of a decision tree. Current biological evidence regarding these genes shows that they are linked to skeletal muscle processes concerning specific human conditions. 2014-06-30T08:40:58Z Discriminant convex non-negative matrix factorization for the classification of human brain tumours http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20446 Title: Discriminant convex non-negative matrix factorization for the classification of human brain tumours Authors: Vilamala Muñoz, Albert; Lisboa, Paulo J G; Ortega Martorell, Sandra; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo Abstract: The medical analysis of human brain tumours commonly relies on indirect measurements. Among these, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) predominate in clinical settings as tools for diagnostic assistance. Pattern recognition (PR) methods have successfully been used in this task, usually interpreting diagnosis as a supervised classification problem. In MRS, the acquired spectral signal can be analyzed in an unsupervised manner to extract its constituent sources. Recently, this has been successfully accomplished using Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) methods. In this paper, we present a method to introduce the available class information into the unsupervised source extraction process of a convex variant of NMF. Novel techniques to generate diagnostic predictions for new, unseen spectra using the proposed Discriminant Convex-NMF are also described and experimentally assessed. 2013-10-22T13:05:24Z Convex non-negative matrix factorization for brain tumor delimitation from MRSI data http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17240 Title: Convex non-negative matrix factorization for brain tumor delimitation from MRSI data Authors: Ortega Martorell, Sandra; Lisboa, Paulo J.G.; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo; Simoes, Rui V.; Pumarola, Martí; Julià Sapé, Margarida; Arús, Carles 2013-01-09T16:46:10Z A new graph matching method for point-set correspondence using the EM algorithm and Softassign http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16937 Title: A new graph matching method for point-set correspondence using the EM algorithm and Softassign Authors: Sanromà Güell, Gerard; Alquézar Mancho, René; Serratosa Casanelles, Francesc Abstract: Finding correspondences between two point-sets is a common step in many vision applications (e.g., image matching or shape retrieval). We present a graph matching method to solve the point-set correspondence problem, which is posed as one of mixture modelling. Our mixture model encompasses a model of structural coherence and a model of affine-invariant geometrical errors. Instead of absolute positions, the geometrical positions are represented as relative positions of the points with respect to each other. We derive the Expectation–Maximization algorithm for our mixture model. In this way, the graph matching problem is approximated, in a principled way, as a succession of assignment problems which are solved using Softassign. Unlike other approaches, we use a true continuous underlying correspondence variable. We develop effective mechanisms to detect outliers. This is a useful technique for improving results in the presence of clutter. We evaluate the ability of our method to locate proper matches as well as to recognize object categories in a series of registration and recognition experiments. Our method compares favourably to other graph matching methods as well as to point-set registration methods and outlier rejectors. 2012-11-16T11:41:25Z Comparing error minimized extreme learning machines and support vector sequential feed-forward neural networks http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16872 Title: Comparing error minimized extreme learning machines and support vector sequential feed-forward neural networks Authors: Romero Merino, Enrique; Alquézar Mancho, René Abstract: Recently, error minimized extreme learning machines (EM-ELMs) have been proposed as a simple and efficient approach to build single-hidden-layer feed-forward networks (SLFNs) sequentially. They add random hidden nodes one by one (or group by group) and update the output weights incrementally to minimize the sum-of-squares error in the training set. Other very similar methods that also construct SLFNs sequentially had been reported earlier with the main difference that their hidden-layer weights are a subset of the data instead of being random. These approaches are referred to as support vector sequential feed-forward neural networks (SV-SFNNs), and they are a particular case of the sequential approximation with optimal coefficients and interacting frequencies (SAOCIF) method. In this paper, it is firstly shown that EM-ELMs can also be cast as a particular case of SAOCIF. In particular, EM-ELMs can easily be extended to test some number of random candidates at each step and select the best of them, as SAOCIF does. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the cost of the computation of the optimal outputlayer weights in the originally proposed EM-ELMs can be improved if it is replaced by the one included in SAOCIF. Secondly, we present the results of an experimental study on 10 benchmark classification and 10 benchmark regression data sets, comparing EM-ELMs and SV-SFNNs, that was carried out under the same conditions for the two models. Although both models have the same (efficient) computational cost, a statistically significant improvement in generalization performance of SV-SFNNs vs. EM-ELMs was found in 12 out of the 20 benchmark problems. 2012-11-09T10:32:51Z Variational Bayesian generative topographic mapping http://hdl.handle.net/2117/13279 Title: Variational Bayesian generative topographic mapping Authors: Olier Caparroso, Iván; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo Abstract: General finite mixture models are powerful tools for the density-based grouping of multivariate i.i.d. data, but they lack data visualization capabilities, which reduces their practical applicability to real-world problems. Generative topographic mapping (GTM) was originally formulated as a constrained mixture of distributions in order to provide simultaneous visualization and clustering of multivariate data. In its inception, the adaptive parameters were determined by maximum likelihood (ML), using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. The original GTM is, therefore, prone to data overfitting unless a regularization mechanism is included. In this paper, we define an alternative variational formulation of GTM that provides a full Bayesian treatment to a Gaussian process (GP)-based variation of the model. The generalization capabilities of the proposed Variational Bayesian GTM are assessed in some detail and compared with those of alternative GTM regularization approaches in terms of test log-likelihood, using several artificial and real datasets. 2011-09-21T10:24:23Z New multiplatform computer program for numerical identification of microorganisms http://hdl.handle.net/2117/13075 Title: New multiplatform computer program for numerical identification of microorganisms Authors: Flores, Oscar; Belanche Muñoz, Luis Antonio; Blanch, Anicet R. Abstract: The classification of bacteria by using genomic methods or expensive biochemical-based commercial kits is sometimes beyond the reach of many laboratories that need to perform numerous classifications of unknown bacterial strains in a fast, cheap, and reliable way. A new computer program, Identax, for the computer-assisted identification of microorganisms by using only results obtained from conventional biochemical tests is presented. Identax improves current microbial identification software and provides a multiplatform and userfriendly program. It can be executed from any operating system and can be downloaded without any cost from the Identax website (www.identax.org). 2011-07-29T08:44:34Z On the improvement of the mapping trustworthiness and continuity of a manifold learning model http://hdl.handle.net/2117/13071 Title: On the improvement of the mapping trustworthiness and continuity of a manifold learning model Authors: Cruz Barbosa, Raúl; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo Abstract: Manifold learningmethodsmodel high-dimensional data through low-dimensional manifolds embedded in the observed data space. This simplification implies that their are prone to trustworthiness and continuity errors. Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) is one such manifold learning method for multivariate data clustering and visualization, defined within a probabilistic framework. In the original formulation,GTMis optimized byminimization of an error that is a function of Euclidean distances, making it vulnerable to the aforementioned errors, especially for datasets of convoluted geometry. Here, we modify GTM to penalize divergences between theEuclidean distances fromthe datapoints to themodel prototypes and the corresponding geodesic distances along the manifold. Several experiments with artificial data showthat this strategy improves the continuity and trustworthiness of the data representation generated by the model. 2011-07-28T09:51:31Z Advances in machine learning and computational intelligence http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12331 Title: Advances in machine learning and computational intelligence Authors: Schleif, Frank-Michael; Biehl, Michael; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo 2011-04-11T10:29:16Z Advances in clustering and visualization of time series using GTM through time http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12330 Title: Advances in clustering and visualization of time series using GTM through time Authors: Olier Caparroso, Iván; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo Abstract: Most of the existing research on multivariate time series concerns supervised forecasting problems. In comparison, little research has been devoted to their exploration through unsupervised clustering and visualization. In this paper, the capabilities of Generative Topographic Mapping Through Time, a model with foundations in probability theory, that performs simultaneous time series clustering and visualization, are assessed in detail. Focus is placed on the visualization of the evolution of signal regimes and the exploration of sudden transitions, for which a novel identification index is defined. The interpretability of time series clustering results may become extremely difficult, even in exploratory visualization, for high dimensional datasets. Here, we define and test an unsupervised time series relevance determination method, fully integrated in the Generative Topographic Mapping Through Time model, that can be used as a basis for time series selection. This method should ease the interpretation of time series clustering results. 2011-04-11T10:07:52Z Feature Selection with Single-Layer Perceptrons for a multicentre 1H-MRS brain tumour database http://hdl.handle.net/2117/10946 Title: Feature Selection with Single-Layer Perceptrons for a multicentre 1H-MRS brain tumour database Authors: Romero Merino, Enrique; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo; Sopena, Josep Maria Abstract: A Feature Selection process with Single-Layer Perceptrons is shown to provide optimum discrimination of an international, multi-centre 1H-MRS database of brain tumors at reasonable computational cost. Results are both intuitively interpretable and very accurate. The method remains simple enough as to allow its easy integration in existing medical decision support systems. 2011-01-10T17:29:58Z Rule-based assistance to brain tumour diagnosis using LR-FIR http://hdl.handle.net/2117/10945 Title: Rule-based assistance to brain tumour diagnosis using LR-FIR Authors: Nebot Castells, M. Àngela; Castro Espinoza, Félix Agustín; Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo; Julià Sapé, Margarida; Arús, Carles Abstract: This paper describes a process of rule-extraction from a multi-centre brain tumour database consisting of nuclear magnetic res- onance spectroscopic signals. The expert diagnosis of human brain tumours can benefit from computer-aided assistance, which has to be readily interpretable by clinicians. Interpretation can be achieved through rule extraction, which is here performed using the LR-FIR algorithm, a method based on fuzzy logic. The experimental results of the classiffication of three groups of tumours indicate in this study that just three spectral frequencies, out of the 195 from a range pre-selected by experts, are enough to represent, in a simple and intuitive manner, most of the knowledge required to discriminate these groups. 2011-01-10T17:22:59Z Exploratory characterization of outliers in a multi-centre 1H-MRS brain tumour dataset http://hdl.handle.net/2117/10944 Title: Exploratory characterization of outliers in a multi-centre 1H-MRS brain tumour dataset Authors: Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo; Julià Sapé, Margarida; Romero Merino, Enrique; Arús, Carles Abstract: As part of the AIDTumour research project, the analysis of MRS data corresponding to various tumour pathologies is used to assist expert diagnosis. 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Since Mars is colder than Earth, there is not just water ice at the poles, but also a concentration of carbon dioxide ice. Some of the carbon dioxide ice at the south pole is there all year long and called the residual cap. This image was taken near the south pole of Mars and shows a characteristic "Swiss cheese" pattern.
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Heat's Arison elected chairman of NBA board of governors
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Micky Arison, managing general
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Picked up 60 endemic trees from Huon Farm Trees yesterday and slotted the following in the ground today:
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The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently announced their intention to prioritize major convergence projects to permit a sharper focus on issues and projects they believe will bring about significant improvement and convergence between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
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In our November 2009 joint statement, we, the IASB and the FASB again reaffirmed our commitment to improving IFRSs and GAAP and achieving their convergence. That statement affirmed June 2011 as the target date for completing the major projects in the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), as updated in 2008, described project-specific milestone targets, and acknowledged the need to intensify our standards-setting efforts to meet those targets.
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- Stagger the publication of Exposure Drafts and related consultations, such as public roundtable meetings, to enable the broad-based and effective stakeholder participation in due process that is critically important to the quality of their standards. We are limiting to four the number of significant or complex Exposure Drafts issued in any one quarter.
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Wiggins star triumphs in Barrow Tour Series
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Disappointment as Swarthmoor girl doesn't get through to final
A GIRL group who progressed all the way through to the semi finals of Britain's Got Talent will be heading back home.
Holker Garden Festival is a celebration of rural life
IT may be called Holker Garden Festival, but the 23rd annual "celebration of rural life" in the grounds of the Cavendish estate is about a lot more than plants.
Barrow businessman to bring back classic pop Sass
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FANTASTIC new deals at top tourist attractions across the county are on offer today.
£61,500 benefits fraud by one-armed ex-Paratrooper from Cumbria
A one-armed former Paratrooper claimed he was a Robin Hood-type figure, defrauding taxpayers to support soldiers' charities.
Pugh injury blow for Askam
ASKAM'S Barry Pugh has been sidelined by an injury which could end his playing career.
Tributes as Barrow born actress dies after collapse backstage
TRIBUTES have been paid to a much-loved Barrow-born actress and theatre director who passed away days after collapsing backstage during her show. (5 comments)
Welcome gift gives helping hand to cope with dyslexia in South Cumbria
A CHARITY which works to help dyslexic people in their everyday lives has been given a helping hand thanks to a pioneering trust fund.
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PROPOSALS to scrap the Human Rights Act have prompted debate among politicians and charities in recent days. The Conservative's manifesto pledge of scrapping the legislation did not appear in the Queen's Speech on Wednesday but a consultation process on replacing the Act with a British Bill of Rights is due to begin. We ask, should Britain keep the Human Rights Act?
Fun in the sun at Barrow football festival: with picture gallery
TEAMS from across headed to Holker Old Boys for the club's annual junior festival.
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BACK pain is one of the UK's most common disabling health conditions. A new group aims to support people with the mental and physical challenges associated with chronic back pain, reports JO DAVIES
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OPTOMETRIST at Specsavers in Barrow, JULIE DIXON, looks at how lifestyle choices can affect your eyesight
SLIDESHOW: Barrow photographers snap up awards for artistry
STUNNING seals and spectacular sunsets were among pictures that earned a photography group a regional competition crown.
Basil deserves a loving new home
BASIL is not a happy cat in his temporary home after spending 12 of his 14 years with the same loving owner.
Prizes and attention galore for Top Pet competition winner
BIG personalities can come in very small packages – and this year's winner of The Evening Mail Top Pet Competition certainly made herself known when she collected two of her three prizes.
Boxing presentation event in Barrow packs a punch for charities
ALMOST 20 charities and organisations have benefited from a generous donation.
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MICHELLE Fredericks, 36, and Matthew Wilson, 38, of Derby Street, Barrow, married at Abbey House Hotel on April 25, 2015
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