Under the Circumstances (Place, Time, Manner, etc.)

Choosing the Best Comparison Under the Circumstances

The Methodius Natural Language Generation systems generates personalized descriptions of objects from a collection. As part of the user modeling component, it creates comparisons between the current object being viewed and previous objects from the user history. We present our general algorithm for choosing the best comparison, which can be optimized to give the best result for different domain...

MANNER OF DEATH Manner of death and circumstances in fatal poisonings: evidence from New Jersey

Objective: The objective of this study is to use a new data set to compare the circumstances of fatal poisoning in deaths ruled as suicides to those ruled as unintentional, particularly with regard to the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and other risk factors. Design: The design is an analysis of all fatal poisonings using data from the New Jersey Violent Death Reporting System. P...

Account of an Extraordinary Change, Not Hitherto Described, Which, under Certain Circumstances, Takes Place in the Human Body after Death

Ano-rectal pathologies encountered under special circumstances.

This paper represents the summary of the anorectal pathology in patients who have special conditions or are in certain age. Author offers his experience in handling the proctological entities in children, elderly, pregnant women, and patients with haemorrhoids who have inflammatory bowel conditions, malignancy or are HIV positive. These patients reqire special approach and are not seen every da...

Reinforcement learning under circumstances beyond its control

Decision theory addresses the task of choosing an action; it provides robust decision-making criteria that support decision-making under conditions of uncertainty or risk. Decision theory has been applied to produce reinforcement learning algorithms that manage uncertainty in state-transitions. However, performance when there is uncertainty regarding the selection of future actions must also be...