Pyrus-dwarf project: interim results

Interim project report and plan

The Magaloff Project: An Interim Report

One of the main difficulties in studying expression in musical performance is the acquisition of data. While audio recordings abound, automatically extracting precise information related to timing, dynamics, and articulation is still not possible at the level of precision required for large-scale music performance studies. In 1989, the Russian pianist Nikita Magaloff performed essentially the e...

CSIS 0801 Final Year Project Interim Report

Initially I was concerned with offline two-dimensional bin packing with one-dimensional vehicle routing. The problem is defined by a set of items, each having a height, a width and a destination distance within (0,1]. The destinations are aligned on the same road, along with the depot (starting point) on one side. The goal is to pack items into vehicles of 1 × 1 loading space, drive the vehicle...

The NomBank Project: An Interim Report

This paper describes NomBank, a project that will provide argument structure for instances of common nouns in the Penn Treebank II corpus. NomBank is part of a larger effort to add additional layers of annotation to the Penn Treebank II corpus. The University of Pennsylvania’s PropBank, NomBank and other annotation projects taken together should lead to the creation of better tools for the auto...

Universal screening for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: interim results from the NHS Scotland pathfinder project.

Following recommendations from a Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a prospective cohort study of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening of all admissions (N=29 690) to six acute hospitals in three regions in Scotland indicated that 7.5% of patients were colonised on admission to hospital. Factors associated with colonisation included re-admission, specialty of admission (...