Cist Burials in Illinois

Human Burials

Taphonomic factors significantly affect the preservation of bone specimens that are ultimately available for examination by the researcher. Burial practices can disturb previous interments, as does rodent burrowing. Soil pH can greatly alter or destroy many smaller bone or bone with less density. Flooding and erosional episodes, as discussed in the last paper, can severely disturb burials. Fina...

Burials: Dietary Sampling Methods

The CIST Summarization System at TAC 2010

This is the first time we participate in TAC. In this report, we present our extractive summarization system on both initial and update summarization tracks of TAC 2010. We introduce an integrated method to generate all summaries. The TAC evaluation of results show that our summarization method is feasible but it has to be improved in future.

The CIST Summarization System at TAC 2011

In this report, we present our extractive summarization system on both summarization and multiling tracks of TAC 2011. We introduce an extractive multi-document summarization method based on hierarchical topic model of hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (hLDA) and sentence compression. hLDA is a representative generative probabilistic model, which not only can mine latent topics from a la...

PAH cleanup in Illinois.

Value of Monitoring Serum Immunoglobulins Questioned Our journal club's review of the recent article by Szczeklik al. (EHP 102:302304) found fault on many levels, especially with the concluding recommendation. It would be neither practical nor useful for workers exposed chronically to PAHs to have serum immunoglobulin levels monitored regularly. The use of cross-sectional data regarding serum i...