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1998 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture NFAIS Annual Conference February 24, 1998 Philadelphia, PA Kent Smith, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine © 1998 Kent Smith Good morning and thank you for the honor to present this lecture in the memory of Miles Conrad, first president of NFAIS and one of its original founders. The lecture series is a fitting memory to a man of vision, strength, dev...

Despite the fact that images constitute the main objects in machine vision, there is remarkably little concern about their actual deenition. We propose a deenition beyond machine-speciic technicalities. Such a deenition is of interest in the design of applications for which the details of the storage medium are not crucially important (the usual case). It provides a uniied conceptual framework ...

There are many large infrastructures that instrument everything from network performance metrics to user activities. However, the collected data are generally used for long-term planning instead of improving reliability and user experience in real time. In this paper, we present our vision of how such collections of data can be used in real time to enhance the dependability of cellular network ...

Observers (72 college students) estimated the size of plastic squares that they held in their fingers and simultaneously viewed through a reducing lens that halved the squares' visual size. The squares were grasped from below through a cloth that prevented direct sight of the hand. Each estimate was a match selected later, either haptically or visually, from a set of comparison squares. Vision ...

Recently, there has been growing interest in the synchronization of mobile pulse-coupled oscillators. We build on the work by Prignano et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 114101) and show that agents that interact exclusively with others in their cone of vision can exhibit different synchronization regimes. Depending on their speed, synchronization emerges as a slow process through spreading of the l...

More than half of the assets in China’s banking system are accounted for by four huge state-owned commercial banks. This paper examines the changing factors influencing these banks’ lending behavior over the post-1994 period on a province-by-province basis. Determinants include the concentration of state-owned enterprises, the level of provincial prosperity, deposit levels, and macroeconomic co...

The publication of a new article by “Authoritative Personage” on May 9, 2016, threw into the open two unresolved issues of Chinese policy: Who is making economic reform policy? What is the mix between reform and growth? These two unresolved issues lie behind the enormous difficulty policy-makers have had in coming up with a coherent reform strategy lately. This difficulty is most manifest in th...

Organizational slack has been recognized as critical to firm performance, although its impact is not always positive. Slack may be used to fuel innovation or alternatively excess resources may be squandered on pet projects. However, most research on slack is rooted in studying private firms in developed economies, especially the United States. Whether prior research on organizational slack can ...

The emergence of complexity in our universe is caused by generative processes that confound us. Collective behaviours going under names such as evolution, swarming, embryogenesis, thought, and emergence produce results that seem counterintuitive (or downright impossible) when the individual elements in the collective are examined. In this seminar I explore the causes of complex behaviour in gen...