Learnability of multi-instance multi-label learning

Multi-instance multi-label learning(MIML) is a new machine learning framework where one data object is described by multiple instances and associated with multiple class labels.During the past few years,many MIML algorithms have been developed and many applications have been described.However,there lacks theoretical exploration to the learnability of MIML.In this paper,through proving a generalization bound for multi-instance single-label learner and viewing MIML as a number of multi-instance single-label learning subtasks with the correlation among the labels,we show that the MIML hypothesis class constructed from a multi-instance single-label hypothesis class is PAC-learnable.     

When central populations exhibit more genetic diversity than peripheral populations: A simulation study

The central-peripheral population hypothesis (CPH) predicts that peripheral populations have reduced genetic variability. Therefore, it is often assumed that they deserve higher conservation priority over central populations. We examined this hypothesis using computer simulations with the objective of determining the range of species properties (parameters) under which a species is likely to exhibit the CPH pattern. The interaction between migration, genetic drift, and time of population establishment was e...     

Molecular mechanisms of serpin deficiencies

The study of serpin deficiency is currently one of the most active areas in basic medical research. Recently, three hypotheses concerning serpin deficiency have been proposed, which are referred to as the conformational disturbance hypothesis (CDH) , loop-sheet polymerisation hypothesis (LSPH) and multiple binding site hypothesis (MB-SH) . CDH was put forward to explicit serpin deficiency due to conformational change of reactive loop of serpins as a result of mutations occurring away from the reactive site residues and LSPH was to explain deficient serpins due to the formation of polymers. MBSH was proposed to explain the mechanism of the formation of stable enzyme-serpin complex via more than one binding site and blockage or mutation in any of the sites resulting in serpin deficiency. A combination of these mechanisms may be critical in understanding the roles of the many documented mutations and autoimmunities which result in qualitative and quantitative serpin deficiency.     

Nuclear migration：Endless efforts toward unraveling its molecular apparatus

Nuclear migration is a non-random movenent of nucleus toward specific site in the cell in many eukaryotes and essential to normal cellular activities of growth,division and development.It is shown that cytoskeleton and its asso-ciated proteins are involved in this process,which have been best analyzed in yeast and filamentous fungi but just started in higher plants.The purpose of this review is to comment the advances in this field.     

A New Approach of Feature Selection for Text Categorization

This paper proposes a new approach of feature selection based on the independent measure between features for text categorization. A fundamental hypothesis that occurrence of the terms in documents is independent of each other, widely used in the probabilistic models for text categorization （TC）, is discussed. However, the basic hypothesis is incom plete for independence of feature set. From the view of feature selection, a new independent measure between features is designed, by which a feature selection algorithm is given to ob rain a feature subset. The selected subset is high in relevance with category and strong in independence between features, satisfies the basic hypothesis at maximum degree. Compared with other traditional feature selection method in TC （which is only taken into the relevance account）, the performance of feature subset selected by our method is prior to others with experiments on the benchmark dataset of 20 Newsgroups.     

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Relating the probability distribution of a de Broglie wave to its phase velocity

We show that the phase velocity in a stationary state of a de Broglie wave can be directly obtained from the probability distribution, i.e. the quantum trajectories, without detailed knowledge of the phase term itself. In other words, the amplitude of a de Broglie wave function describes not only the probability distribution but also the phase velocity distribution. Using this relationship, we comment on two calculations of the Goos-H nchen shift in de Broglie waves.     

Review of galactic and extragalactic searches for class I methanol masers

Class I methanol masers are important tools for investigations of star formation throughout the Universe. Recently, a series of surveys for class I methanol masers at the 95 GHz transition toward samples of young stellar objects have been undertaken. These surveys have resulted in the detection of about 200 new class I methanol masers and combined with previous increased the number of known observations they have class I methanol masers in our Galaxy to ~400. From analysis of the relationship between class I methanol maser emission and associated astrophysical objects, it has been shown that the intensity of the class I methanol maser emission is closely correlated with the properties of the 1.1 mm Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey （BGPS） dust continuum sources and outflow properties. This further supports the hypothesis that class I methanol masers are collisionally pumped and excited in shocked regions. Based on these observations, it can be inferred that the BGPS catalog is likely to provide more reliable samples for targeting further class I methanol maser searches. A new survey for class I methanol masers toward a larger size sample of BGPS sources to test this is currently underway. The prospects for detecting class I methanol megamasers in extragalactic sources is discussed, and observations constituting the first sensitive search have been proposed.     

Experimental Study on Noise Reduction of Punch Press

To reduce the noise of punch press during the punching process, the polyurethane elastomer is used as the damping material. The experiments of reducing noise were made by means of adding the polyurethane elastomer at different positions of 100 kN and 1 000 kN punch press. The better effect of reducing the noise was obtained. With the research and analysis of a large number of test data, the ＂equivalent damping hypothesis＂ is put forward. The hypothesis makes the experiment of reducing noise be more simple and cost effective. This method would be exploited in area of vibration control and reducing noise.     

Cubature Kalman probability hypothesis density filter based on multi-sensor consistency fusion①

The GM-PHD framework as recursion realization of PHD filter is extensively applied to multi-target tracking system .A new idea of improving the estimation precision of time-varying multi-target in non-linear system is proposed due to the advantage of computation efficiency in this paper .First, a novel cubature Kalman probability hypothesis density filter is designed for single sensor measure -ment system under the Gaussian mixture framework .Second , the consistency fusion strategy for multi-sensor measurement is proposed through constructing consistency matrix .Furthermore, to take the advantage of consistency fusion strategy , fused measurement is introduced in the update step of cubature Kalman probability hypothesis density filter to replace the single-sensor measurement .Then a cubature Kalman probability hypothesis density filter based on multi-sensor consistency fusion is proposed .Capabilily of the proposed algorithm is illustrated through simulation scenario of multi-sen-sor multi-target tracking .     

Mantle plumes： Why the current skepticism？

The present reappraisal of the mantle plume hypothesis is perhaps the most exciting current debate in Earth science. Nevertheless, the fundamental reasons for why it has arisen are often not well understood. They are that 1） many observations do not agree with the predictions of the original model, 2） it is possible that convection of the sort required to generate thermal plumes in the Earth＇s mantle does not occur, 3） so many variants of the original model have been invoked to accommodate conflicting data that the plume hypthesis is in practice no longer testable, and 4） alternative models are viable, though these have been largely neglected by researchers. Regardless of the final outcome, the present vigorous debate is to be welcomed since it is likely to stimulate new discoveries in a way that unquestioning acceptance of the conventional plume model will not.     

An extended theory of global workspace of consciousness

Global Workspace theory and Global Neuronal Workspace hypothesis are frameworks about the mechanism of the consciousness, which argued that it is the global workspace that makes awareness. These two theories ignored an important fact that the content of consciousness is not only from the instant sensory input, but also from the inward mind representation. The existence of the default mode network of brain indicates that without the sensory input from instant environment, the brain can carry out organized activities which have intense relationship with inward information processing. This article combines the hypothesis of brain＇s default mode network and the classical Global Workspace theory, and put forward an extended theory about global workspace of consciousness.     

Vorticity Measurements Using a 6-Sensor Hot-Wire Probe in a Tangentially Fired Furnace

Vorticity, which represents the rotation of a fluid element, is an important characteristic of turbulence. Various methods have been used to measure vorticity. A hot-wire/hot-film anemometer (HWA) was used here to measure the vorticity in turbulent flows. The velocity components and their partial derivatives were simultaneously measured with a new 6-sensor hot-wire (HW) probe assuming ideal yaw and pitch factors with Jorgensen's expression and Taylor's hypothesis to analyze the data. The accurate 6-sensor hot-wire probe results for the velocity field were used to determine the velocity gradients and, therefore, the vorticity vector field. The data was measured in an isothermal model of a tangentially fired furnace. The experimental results in the tangentially fired furnace agree with numerical results.     

Mitochondrial 16S rRNA sequence variations and phylogeny of the Chinese sisorid catfishes

Partial sequences of mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene were obtained by PCR amplification for comparisons among nine species of glyptosternoid fishes and six species of non-glyptosternoids representing 10 sisorid genera. There are compositional biases in the A-rich unpaired regions and G-rich paired regions. A-G transitions are primarily responsible for the Ts/Tv bias in unpaired regions. The overall substitution rate in unpaired regions is almost two times higher than that in the paired regions. Saturation plots at comparable levels of sequence divergence demonstrate no saturation effects. Phylogenetic analyses using both maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods support the monophyly of Sisoridae. Chinese sisorid catfishes are composed of two majorlineages, one represented by (Gagata (Bagarius, Glyptothorax)) and the other by “glyptosternoids Pseudecheneis“. The glyptosternoids may not be a monophyletic group. A previous hypothesis referring to Pseudecheneis as the sister group of monophyletic glyptosternoids, based on morphological evidence, is not supported by the molecular data. Pseudecheneis is shown to be a sister taxon of Glaridoglanis. Pareuchiloglanis might be paraphyletic with Pseudexostoma and Euchiloglanis. Our results also support the hypothesis that Pareuchiloglanis anteanalis might be considered as the synonyms of Pareuchiloglanis sinensis, and genus Euchiloglanis might have only one valid species, Euchiloglanis davidi.     

Learning,Mutation and the Economics of Convention:A Selected Review of Evolutionary Game Theory

Before the present of basic model,one example is given in section 2 to illustrate the economic intuition behind the SSE. The general model,including the three hypotheses,adaptive play setting and basic results is laid out in section 3. Sections 4 study the asymptotic behavior of this model. This review concludes with a comment.     

Balance between facilitation and competition determines spatial patterns in a plant population

A considerable challenge in plant ecology is to understand how interactions,such as competition or facilitation,shape the spatial distribution of plants.The‘‘stress gradient hypothesis’’predicts that facilitation and competition will vary inversely across gradients of abiotic stress or consumer pressure.Surprisingly,few previous studies have explored how the balance between facilitation and competition affects spatial patterns along gradients of stress in a plant population based on field experiments.In order to investigate the effects of consumer pressure,facilitation,and competition on the spatial pattern of plant populations,we conducted a restoration succession series field experiment in the Inner Mongolian steppe in which sample sites of graded consumer pressure,specifically grazing stress,were established.We chose to examine the spatial patterns of Leymus chinensis,a dominant species in our experimental site.In order to test the‘‘stress gradient hypothesis,’’we applied the univariate O-ring statistic to analyze local neighborhood density at different spatial scales.We used the pair-correlation function to detect the characteristics of point patterns using complete spatial randomness,the Poisson cluster process,and the nested double-cluster process.We found that the local densities of L.chinensis were higher under high stress than lower stress environments.This demonstrated the‘‘stress gradient hypothesis’’in that facilitation and competition varied inversely across gradients of consumer pressure.However,we found nodifferences in the spatial patterns of L.chinensis based on complete spatial randomness when interactions shifted from facilitation to competition along gradients of consumer pressure.Furthermore,we detected the characteristics of point patterns using the Poisson cluster and nested doublecluster processes.The results showed the spatial patterns of L.chinensis to fit well with the nested double-cluster model under highly stressful conditions,while in lower stress environments they were best approximated by the Thomas process.Our results illustrate that a shift in interactions from facilitation to competition along gradients of consumer pressure can shape spatial patterns and that a combination of the Poisson cluster process and nested doublecluster process can detect spatial pattern characteristics which cannot be detected by complete spatial randomness.     

Sequential Detection of Digital Watermarking

The paper analyzed a new watermarking detection paradigm including double detection thresholds based on sequential hypothesis testing. A joint design of watermarking encoding and detection was proposed. The paradigm had good immunity to noisy signal attacks and high detection probability. Many experiments proved that the above algorithm can detect watermarks about 66% faster than popular detectors, which could have significant impact on many applications such as video watermarking detection and watermark-searching in a large database of digital contents.     

Characteristics and mechanism of abrasive wear for thermoplastic polymers

Abrasive wear characteristics of polyethylene, polystyrene, polymethylmethacrylate, nylon 1010 and polyvinyl chloride were investigated. The volume relative wear resistance coefficients of these thermoplastic polymers are 18%-35% (hardened and low temperature tempered steel 45 was used as a comparing material), and have a linear correlation with square roots of their cohesive energy densities. The coefficients of linear correlation is 0.949. Wear morphologies were observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Main wear mechanism of the thermoplastic polymers includes brittle breaking for the hard and brittle polymers & plowing and fatiguing for the soft and tough ones.     

Simple scaling relations in geodynamics： the role of pressure in mantle convection and plume formation

Scaling relations are important in extrapolating laboratory experiments to the Earth‘s mantle. In planetary interiors, compression becomes an important parameter and it is useful to explore scalings that involve volume. I use simple volume scaling relations that allow one to extrapolate laboratory experiments and upper mantle behavior, in a thermodynamically self-consistent way, to predict lower mantle behavior. The relations are similar to the quasi-har-monic approximation. Slabs and plates have characteristic dimensions of hundreds of kilometers and time constants of 100 million years, but the volume scalings predict order of magnitude higher values in the deep mantle. The scaling relations imply that the deep mantle is a sluggish system with ancient features. They imply irreversible chemical stratification and do not favor the plume hypothesis.     

Genetic relationships among Chinese and American isolates of Phytophthora sojae assessed by RAPD markers

The genetic diversity of three geographic populations of Phytophthora sojae from China and the United States was determined using random amplified polymorphic DNA （RAPD）. The purpose was to explore genetic relationships among Chinese and American isolates of the organism. 21 random primers were selected among 200 random primers screened. A total of 223 reproducible RAPD fragments were scored among 111 individuals, of which 199 （89.23%） were polymorphic. Analysis of genetic variation showed that there existed higher genetic variation in the United States population in comparison to the Chinese populations. Nei＇s genetic identity and principal component analysis indicated that the populations of Fujian and United States are closer to each other than to Heilongjiang populations. Shannon-Wiener diversity index revealed that the United States populations have a higher genetic di- versity than that of Chinese populations. These data are in support of the hypothesis that P. sojae in the United States might not have been introduced from China.