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A new method for nonparametric multiple regression is presented. The procedure models the regression surface as a sum of general- smooth functions of linear combinations of the predictor variables in an iterative manner. It is more general than standard stepwise and stagewise regression procedures

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for encoding knowledge on Web pages to make it understandable to electronic agents searching for information. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in conjunction with the W3C, is developing DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) by extending RDF with more expressive constructs aimed

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is correctly computed. Unconventional features such as downsampled images and random projections perform just as well as conventional features such as Eigenfaces and Laplacianfaces, as long as the dimension of the feature space surpasses certain threshold, predicted by the theory of sparse representation

by a symmetric key at each node (like the layers of an onion) and relayed downstream. The Onion Routing project published several design and analysis papers Perfect forward secrecy: In the original Onion Routing design, a single hostile node could record traffic and later compromise successive nodes

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research was focused on the design and implementation of a visual tool for flow cytometry data representation of real datasets. It was based on data obtained from the Flow Cytometry Data Standards Project [0] and an informal user study of TFL members who use flow cytometry in their everyday work.