Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research fields involving named entities; one such field is known as entity ranking, where one goal is to rank entities in response to a query supported with a short list of entity examples. In this paper, we describe our approach to ranking...

To determine who fathers the offspring in wild mountain gorilla groups containing more than one adult male silverback, we genotyped nearly one-fourth (n = 92) of the mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) living in the Virunga Volcanoes region of Africa. Paternity analysis of 48 offspring born into four groups between 1985 and 1999 revealed that, although all infants were sired by within...

Material selection is one of the major problems in manufacturing environments since the improper selected material may lead to fail in the production processes and result in customer dissatisfaction and cost inefficiency. Every material has different properties which should be considered as major criteria during the material selection procedure. Selection criteria could be quantitative or quali...

This paper discusses the searching of full-text documents to identify paragraphs that are relevant to a user request. Given a natural language query statement, a nearest neighbour search involves ranking the paragraphs comprising a full-text document in order of descending similarity with the query, where the similarity for each paragraph is determined by the number of keyword stems that it has...

Providing access to the full text of cataloged articles is a highly desirable feature for a digital library. However, in many such systems, not all metadata records have (a direct pointer to) a corresponding full-text document. In this article, we present a new service for finding the missing full text of articles cataloged in a digital library. This service is implemented as a software compone...

DNA-based sensors can detect disease biomarkers, including acetone and ethanol for diabetes and H2S for cardiovascular diseases. Before experimenting on thousands of potential DNA segments, we conduct full atomistic steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations to screen the interactions between different DNA sequences with targeted molecules to rank the nucleobase sensing performance. We study ...

We propose a procedure for ranking decision making units in data envelopment analysis, based on ideal and anti-ideal points in the production possibility set. Moreover, a model has been introduced to compute the performance of a decision making unit for these two points through using common set of weights. One of the best privileges of this method is that we can make ranking for all decision ma...

A signi cant source of di culty in language learning is the presumed \incompleteness" of the overt information available to a language learner, termed here an `overt form', when they hear an utterance. The complete structural description assigned to an utterance by linguistic analysis includes representational elements not directly apparent in the overt form, but which play a critical role in l...

In many watersheds, water quality is degraded by nutrients and sediment from row crop agriculture. The continued development of watershed process models on one hand and optimization tools on the other hand places today's decision-makers in a position where the problems of cost-effective assignment of conservation activities can be solved for a variety of landscapes and environmental objectives....