Second, we have chosen exemplars that provide as wide a coverage of biology as possible.
We have chosen exemplars requiring as little knowledge of specific ontologies as possible.
For practical reasons, third, we have chosen exemplars where the underlying science is relatively basic to much of biology and is likely to be immediately clear to the reader without significant explanation.
HMAX is a multiple layer system with simple and complex cell layers alternating that sets up connections to simple cells based on randomly chosen exemplars, and a MAX function performed by the complex cells of their simple cell inputs.
We chose exemplar conditions theoretically amenable to self management interventions and where there was published evidence of effectiveness.
In order to balance the internal variability of the two categories, we chose exemplars belonging to four different subcategories.
Preliminary analyses using 16 – 54 taxa (Additional file 1) were used as a guide to choosing exemplars so that fast- or slow-evolving species were not selected.
Chosen exemplars of the critical syllable-final phonemes/p/and/t/had the same duration (80 ms) and were also normalised to match for average RMS power.
Four racial/ethnic groups in the US (African-American, Chinese, Filipino and Hispanic/Latino) were chosen as exemplar populations.
