Singular Learning of Deep Multilayer Perceptrons for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition

Human emotion recognition is an important issue in human–computer interactions, and electroencephalograph (EEG) has been widely applied to emotion recognition due to its high reliability. In recent years, methods based on deep learning technology have reached the state-of-the-art performance in EEG-based emotion recognition. However, there exist singularities in the parameter space of deep neural networks, which may dramatically slow down the training process. It is very worthy to investigate the specific influence of singularities when applying deep neural networks to EEG-based emotion recognition. In this paper, we mainly focus on this problem, and analyze the singular learning dynamics of deep multilayer perceptrons theoretically and numerically. The results can help us to design better algorithms to overcome the serious influence of singularities in deep neural networks for EEG-based emotion recognition.

Ultrasonographic characteristics of morphometric and hemodynamic parameters of the liver and spleen in pediatric patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C

Chronic HBV- and HCV-infection in pediatric patients had already became an important social and medical problem due to increasing of its prevalence, specific latent course of these infections and forming of progression process which leads to development of liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and cancer with specific influence to different indexes which shows us the decreasing of quality of life of those patients. Therefore, it is necessary to study the basic risk factors for liver fibrosis progression and ways of their diagnosis, including non-invasive ultrasound techniques, in pediatric patients with chronic HBV- and HCV-infection, as their modification may improve the influence for prognosis and clinical consequences. This article considers the changes of the main ultrasound parameters of the liver and spleen in pediatric patients with chronic HBV- and HCV-infection and ability to use US Grayscale (Y.Davoudi, 2015) for management of pediatric patients.

Clover Species Specific Influence on Microbial Abundance and Associated Enzyme Activities in Rhizosphere and Non-Rhizosphere Soils

Legume cultivation, especially the clover species, has shown promoting effects on soil biological properties. However, the ways in which various clover species contribute to beneficial plant-rhizosphere soil interactions have remained neglected in the past. Therefore, we performed a field experiment to assess and compare the species-specific influence of five different clover species on plant traits, microbial soil health indicators, namely soil enzymes, microbial biomass and abundance and their potential nutrient cycling abilities under rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soils. For this, soil samples from bulk soil and rhizosphere of each clover species were collected and analyzed for soil enzymes including β-glucosidase, arylsulfatase, phosphatase, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase, and urease and microbial communities’ abundance. Results revealed that the soil biological properties were more affected in the rhizosoil than in the bulk soil, although the individual legume crop variants differed in the rate and extent of the differential impact on either rhizosoil or bulk soil. The most significantly affected species-specific properties were ammonium oxidizing bacteria and phosphorus-solubilizing microbiota in the rhizosoil of white clover and alsike clover variants, whereas the least impact was exerted by sweet clover. The biological properties of rhizosoil showed a significant effect on the plant qualitative and quantitative properties. We further detected antagonism among N and P + K transfer from the rhizosoil to plants, which influenced above ground and root biomass. Overall, these results suggest that the positive effects of clover species cultivation on rhizosphere soil properties are species specific.

Consumer’s Motivation toward Purchase Intention on Online Product with Mediating Effect of Trust in Brunei

This study proposes a conceptual framework for determining the influences of consumers’ motivation toward purchase intention on online product in Brunei. Nowadays, purchasing goods via internet is growing rapidly in the whole world and it gives confidence to a researcher to explore what factors influence consumer see at the time of purchase goods via online. However, this study argues that the driver of the motivation on consumer is yet to be fully identified due to lack of studies that investigate the specific influence as a separate phenomenon and has not been tested in Brunei yet. Therefore, this study analyses the Uses and Gratifications Theory and Theory of Trust, to develop the understanding of consumers’ motivation and purchase intention on online product. The aim for this study is to explore the factors of consumers’ motivation in Brunei such as social media, online customer reviews, social influence and website design/features. This is to examine whether they have relationship between purchase intention and trust as a mediator. The data will be updated by quantitative method where the expected sample of 350 participants in Brunei in order to test the effect of variables. This study provides further insight for future researchers who will benefit to study consumers’ motivation for instance, in the e-commerce and social commerce, which may assist business managers’ advance their decision-making quality in developing markets.

Esthetical heteronomy as creation principle of a fictional narrative: on the esthetical function of intertextuality

The relations between the “main” narrative parts of a belletristic text and its (cross)references to other works of literature and/or music, painting etc. play an important part in the structure and functioning of a literary work. The phenomenon of intertextuality belongs at present to the favourite subjects of the research of texts, among others, of fictional texts. However, some relevant functions of implementation of external esthetical works, both literary texts and other art forms, into a fictional narration have not been investigated yet. This paper presents an analyses of two works of narrative fiction written by Tolstoy and T. Mann, with a special attention to the esthetical function of intertextuality by implementation of cross-references to the works of the composer Beethoven (in the case of Th. Mann also of the poet Goethe). The claim is that intertextuality in the esthetical sphere induces a double esthetical function and determines the phenomenon which I will call “esthetical heteronomy”. Its main feature is a very specific influence of external esthetical sources on the internal esthetical values of the primary text.