Detecting Sponsored Recommendations

Recommendations on DMA's Standard Linear Format Sponsored by Chief of Naval Operations {OP-006)

19. ABSTRACT (Continue on reverse if necessary and identify by block number) This report stems from a NORDA evaluation of DMA's prototype World Vector Shoreline (WVS). NORDA personnel evaluated the ease of reading the WVS documentation, understanding the file structure, inputting the data from a tape file into program data structures, and plotting the shoreline vectors. Those who participated i...

Sponsored vs. Organic (Research Paper) Recommendations and the Impact of Labeling

In this paper we show that organic recommendations are preferred over commercial recommendations even when they point to the same freely downloadable research papers. Simply the fact that users perceive recommendations as commercial decreased their willingness to accept them. It is further shown that the exact labeling of recommendations matters. For instance, recommendations labeled as ‘advert...

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Tandem mass spectrometry is a widely used method for protein and peptide sequences identification. Since the mass spectra contain up to 80% of noise and many other inaccuracies, there still exists a need for more accurate algorithms for mass spectra interpretation. The sizes of protein databases grow rapidly and the methods for indexing these databases in order to interpret mass spectra become ...

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State-sponsored social movements

A state-sponsored social movement refers to a popular movement initiated and endorsed by the central leadership of the state and organized by the government’s apparatuses. Collective action events are peopled by citizens in their capacity as nonstate actors, but the main source of claims, leadership, and organizational resources is from within the state itself, and state actors, in their offici...