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What Can 1 Million Trials Tell Us about Visual Search ?

33 Abstract— In a typical visual search experiment, observers look through a set of items for a designated target that may or may not be present. Reaction time (RT) is measured as a function of the number of items in the display (set size), and inferences about the underlying search processes are based on the slopes of the resulting RT × Set Size functions. Most search experiments involve 5 to ...

Leading causes of cardiovascular hospitalization in 8.45 million US veterans

BACKGROUND We sought to determine the leading causes of cardiovascular (CV) hospitalization, and to describe and compare national rates of CV hospitalization by age, gender, race, ethnicity, region, and year, among U.S. veterans. METHODS We evaluated the electronic health records of all veterans aged ≥18 years who had accessed any healthcare services at either a VA healthcare facility or a no...

Improving Dependency Parsing with Fined-Grained Features

In this paper, we present a simple and effective fine-grained feature generation scheme for dependency parsing. We focus on the problem of grammar representation, introducing fine-grained features by splitting various POS tags to different degrees using HowNet hierarchical semantic knowledge. To prevent the oversplitting, we adopt a threshold-constrained bottomup strategy to merge the derived s...

Polio eradication: 7 countries and US$ 210 million to go.

The World Health Organization launched a final push on 29 July to eradicate polio by 2005 with a call to donors for an additional US$ 210 million to finally stamp out the incurable laming disease that mainly affects under-five-year-olds. WHO’s DirectorGeneral Jong-Wook Lee has appointed David Heymann as his representative on polio eradication following the infectious diseases expert’s success h...