When a new user registers to a recommender system service, the system does not know her taste and cannot propose meaningful suggestions (cold-start problem). This preliminary work attempts to mitigate the cold-start problem using the profile picture of the user as a sole information, following the intuition that a correspondence may exist between the pictures that people use to represent themse...

7 Submission date: November 13, 2009 8 Number of Tables and Figures: 6 9 Total Word Count: 7476 (including 250 words for each Figure/Table) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Mitchell K. Robinson (corresponding author) 23 University of Vermont 24 33 Colchester Avenue 25 Burlington, VT 05405 26 Phone: (716) 474-2964 27 Email: [email protected] 28 29 Karen M. Sentoff 30 University of ...

E-learning systems often include a personalization component, which adapts the learning content to the learner’s particular needs. One obstacle to personalization is the question of how to obtain a learner profile for a learner who just starts using an E-learning system without overwhelming her with questions or unsuitable learning material. One possible solution to this problem lies in the soc...

We investigate the C-start escape response of larval fish by combining flow simulations using remeshed vortex methods with an evolutionary optimization. We test the hypothesis of the optimality of C-start of larval fish by simulations of larval-shaped, twoand three-dimensional self-propelled swimmers. We optimize for the distance travelled by the swimmer during its initial bout, bounding the sh...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data colle...

Scientific full text papers are usually stored in separate places than their underlying research datasets. Authors typically make references to datasets by mentioning them for example by using their titles and the year of publication. However, in most cases explicit links that would provide readers with direct access to referenced datasets are missing. Manually detecting references to datasets ...

Background Steroid injection is a widespread treatment for plantar fasciitis but seems to be useful lesser extent, Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) injections into the fascia start healing process required stop degeneration of at its root.Aim study To compare analgesic efficacy, functional outcome, degree satisfaction and improvement fascial thickness echogenicity after platelet-rich plasma versus co...