Prof. Gianluca Torregrossa: think positive, stay positive, think for your patients

Think Positive: Towards Twitter Sentiment Analysis from Scratch

In this paper we describe a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DNN) approach to perform two sentiment detection tasks: message polarity classification and contextual polarity disambiguation. We apply the proposed approach for the SemEval2014 Task 9: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter. Despite not using any handcrafted feature or sentiment lexicons, our system achieves very competitive results for Tw...

Trust Your Gut or Think Carefully?

Cultivating successful personal and professional relationships requires the ability to accurately infer the feelings of others—that is, to be empathically accurate. Some are better at this than others, a difference which may be explained in part by mode of thought. Specifically, empathically accurate people may tend to rely more on intuitive rather than systematic thought when perceiving others...

Think about Neurobrucellosis, When a Man Cries

Neurobrucellosis (N.B) is a rare and severe form of systemic Brucella infection. We introduced an unusual case that “Psychologic Symptoms” was the most prominent complaints of his family. He was a 50-year-old man who has worked in butchery. His problems had begun 2 months prior to his admission with mood disorders, arthralgia, weakness, headache, and night sweats; he has recurrent crying with n...

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Storage on Your SmartPhone Uses More Energy Than You Think

Energy consumption is a key concern for mobile devices. Prior research has focused on the screen and the network as the major sources of energy consumption. Through carefully designed measurement-based experiments, we show that for certain storage-intensive workloads, the storage subsystem on an Android smartphone consumes a significant amount of energy (36%), on par with screen energy consumpt...