This paper describes our submission to the CoNLL-2016 shared task (Xue et al., 2016) on end-to-end Chinese shallow discourse parsing. We decompose the endto-end process into four steps. Firstly, we define a syntactically heuristic algorithm to identify elementary discourse units (EDUs) and further to recognize valid EDU pairs. Secondly, we recognize explicit discourse connectives. Thirdly, we l...

Metaverse, an alternative universe for play, work and interaction, has become a captivating topic academia industry in recent times. This opens the question on what metaverse education, or edu-metaverse, should look like. It is believed that this learning be grounded by pedagogical theory. Particularly, we propose constructivist theory with eight actionable principles to guide edu-metaverse its...

UNLABELLED BEAUTY (BLAST Enhanced Alignment Utility) is an enhanced version of the BLAST database search tool that facilitates identification of the functions of matched sequences. Three recent improvements to the BEAUTY program described here make the enhanced output (1) available for DNA queries, (2) available for searches of any protein database, and (3) more up-to-date, with periodic update...

In the title coordination polymer, {[Zn(SO(4))(C(18)H(16)N(6)O(2))(H(2)O)(3)]·CH(3)OH·H(2)O}(n), the Zn(2+) ion adopts a slightly distorted cis-ZnN(2)O(4) octa-hedral geometry arising from three coordinated water mol-ecules, one sulfate ion and two bridging 3,3'-bis-(3-pyrid-yl)-1,1'-(m-phenyl-ene)diurea (bpmpbu) ligands. The dihedral angles between the central benzene ring and two terminal pyr...

Jens-S. Vöckler1 Gaurang Mehta1 Yong Zhao2 Ewa Deelman1 Mike Wilde3 1University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Ste 1001 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 {jens,gmehta,deelman} at isi dot edu 2University of Chicago Dept. of Comp. Science 1100 East 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 yongzh at cs dot uchicago dot edu 3Argonne National Laboratories Math. and Comp. Sci. D...

Molecular Science and Biomedicine L Chemo/Bio-Sensing and Chemometrics, Engineering, College of Life Sciences, A Province, Hunan University, Changsha, Hu u.edu; ruowenwang@u.edu Department of Chemistry, Department of Ph for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, Hea McKnight Brain Institute, University of Flori Department of Biotechnology and Biomed Tsinghua University, Zhejiang, 314006, Chi † E...

We analyze the development of educational (EDU) web portals from the perspective of meta-design. Here, we focus on the technical issues of meta-design only and consider design-for-change. Our contribution is a variability model based on the variability analysis, generic portal development processes, sub-processes and their relationships. We analyze the interface design problem in the context of...

We present EDU-ProM, an extension of the ProM framework, which was designed to serve as a classroom version of ProM for educational purposes. EDU-ProM is designed to work in a non-interactive work mode, allowing the execution of a set of mining tasks against numerous event logs without user intervention. It is mostly suitable for process mining researchers and students who are interested in exp...

This paper proposes a novel method for recommending books to pupils based on a framework called Edu-mining. One of the properties of the proposed method is that it uses only loan histories (pupil ID, book ID, date of loan) whereas the conventional methods require additional information such as taste information from a great number of users which is costly to obtain. To achieve this, the propose...

The field of macro-imaging has grown considerably with the appearance of innovative clearing methods and confocal microscopes with lasers capable of penetrating increasing tissue depths. The ability to visualize and model the growth of whole organs as they develop from birth, or with manipulation, disease or injury, provides new ways of thinking about development, tissue-wide signaling, and cel...