Report on Manuring Experiments-1923

Report on CLEF-2001 Experiments

For our first participation in CLEF retrieval tasks, our first objective was to define a general stopword list for various European languages (namely, French, Italian, German and Spanish) and also to suggest simple and efficient stemming procedures for them. Our second aim was to suggest a combined approach that might be implemented in order to facilitate effective access to multilingual collec...

Neonatology on the Web: Sidbury 1923

The first transfusion of blood for hemorrhagic disease of the newborn was performed in New York City by Dr. Alexis Carrel in 1908 [1]. The method was direct transfusion from the left radial artery to the right popliteal vein. The baby recovered. In 1909 Dr. Crile introduced the cuff and cannula method. In 1910 the Elsberg cannula was introduced, and during the same year, Vincent of Boston intro...

Report on research methodologies for the experiments

The report presents a framework of a user-centered quality evaluation method. Current recommended research methods based on a psychoperceptual approach do not take into quality evaluation these factors which are related to real usage in contexts of the system under test. Our method of which a first framework is presented here takes into account the user requirements to check optimization of the...

Report on CLEF 2003 Experiments at UB

Bernard Dwork 1923--1998

Bernard Morris Dwork, “Bernie” to those who had the privilege of knowing him, died on May 9, 1998, just weeks short of his seventyfifth birthday. He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Shirley; his three children, Andrew, Deborah, and Cynthia; his four granddaughters; his brothers Julius and Leo; and his sister, Elaine Chanley. We mention family early in this article, both because it was su...