Backing the n-word

Who has the “Right” to Use the N-Word? A Survey of Attitudes about the Acceptability of Using the N-Word and its Derivatives

The N-word is the ultimate insult that has tormented generations of African-Americans. Yet over time, N-word derivatives have become popular terms of endearment by the descendants of the very people who once had to endure the N-word. Therein lies the root of an ongoing argument in society today: Who has the ‘right’ to use the N-word and N-word derivatives?  A quota sample (N=347) of undergradua...

Hybrid backing

Sometimes, a scientific development that might be expected to trigger media frenzy and noisy protest fails to do so. One example was the cloning of Dolly the sheep at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1996. Given the science fiction background, this event could easily have provoked widespread public alarm and hostility. Dolly's predominantly reasonable reception owed a good deal...

Advances in the Knowledge of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Properties. The Backing of the Electrochemical Investigation

In the last twenty years, N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have acquired considerable popularity as ligands for transition metals, organocatalysts and in metal-free polymer synthesis. NHCs are generally derived from azolium based salts NHCH+X− by deprotonation or reduction (chemical or electrochemical) of NHCH+. The extensive knowledge of the physicochemical properties of NHCH+/NHC system could h...

Beyond Word N-Grams

We describe, analyze, and experimentally evaluate a new probabilistic model for wordsequence prediction in natural languages, based on prediction suffi~v trees (PSTs). By using efficient data structures, we extend the notion of PST to unbounded vocabularies. We also show how to use a Bayesian approach based on recursive priors over all possible PSTs to efficiently maintain tree mixtures. These ...

Backing up the Big Data Stack