Renewing the Vision

Renewing GENETICS.

Renewing the respect for similarity

In psychology, the concept of similarity has traditionally evoked a mixture of respect, stemming from its ubiquity and intuitive appeal, and concern, due to its dependence on the framing of the problem at hand and on its context. We argue for a renewed focus on similarity as an explanatory concept, by surveying established results and new developments in the theory and methods of similarity-pre...

Renewing Cryptographic Timestamps

This paper shows that the scheme described in Haber and Stornetta [Haber and Stornetta Jr., 1994] for extending the validity of a cryptographic timestamp for a Time Stamping Service contains security shortcomings. A modification is proposed to rectify the identified shortcomings.

Renewing and Revising SemLink

This research describes SemLink, a comprehensive resource for Natural Language Processing that maps and unifies several highquality lexical resources: PropBank, VerbNet, FrameNet, and the recently added OntoNotes sense groupings. Each of these resources was created for slightly different purposes, and therefore each carries unique strengths and limitations. SemLink allows users to leverage the ...

Special Focus: Renewing Trade

Rapid and sustained growth in international trade has long been a hallmark of successful growth and development strategies among the East Asian countries. During the 1990s new low-income entrants to world markets like Cambodia and Vietnam achieved annual average export growth rates of 20-30%, suggesting the continued possibility of reproducing the earlier and better known export success stories...