Multilingual IR may be performed in two environments: there may exist a separate index for each target language, or all the languages may be indexed in a merged index. In the first case, retrieval must be performed separately in each index, after which the result lists have to be merged. In the case of the merged index, there are two alternatives: either to perform retrieval with a merged query...

We study how M&As shape analysts’ coverage decisions and whether this process reveals information about the valuation and future performance of the merged firms. Since the target firm is delisted after the M&A, we expect and find that the majority of the analysts covering the target drop their coverage of the merged firm. However, the target analysts who retain coverage provide the most accurat...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this prospective clinical trial was to evaluate the reliability of a 3-dimensional facial scanning technique for the measurement of facial morphology. METHODS A field study was conducted in 2 comprehensive schools in the South Wales region of the United Kingdom. Forty subjects, mean age 11 years 3 months, were analyzed for soft tissue changes at baseline (T1), with...

The work presented here is a preliminary sn~y concerning the automatic translation of French natural language statements into the RESEDA semantic metalanguage. The text in natural language is first (pre)processed in order to obtain its syntactic structure. The "semantic parsing" process begins with marking the "triggers", defined as lexical units which call one or more of the predicative patter...

We started to implement SMP support for the OpenBSD/sgi port and selected the SGI Octane as the first target machine. We are now at the point where we have almost finished, except for the implementation of some non-critical features. SMP support is now operational on SGI Octane systems and the code has been merged into the OpenBSD tree.

This paper describes a new scheme for robust speech recognition systems where visual information and acoustic features are merged. Using as robust unit the « pseudo-diphone », we compare a global Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and a Master/Slave HMM through a centisecond preprocessing and through a segmental one. We confirm by experimentation the importance of articulatory features in clean and nois...

Reputation is generally defined as the opinion of a group on an aspect of a thing. This paper presents a reputation model that follows a probabilistic modelling of opinions, introduces a notion of information decay, and assesses the reliability of opinions based on the reputation of their sources. The model considers both explicit and implicit opinions, which are based on behavioural informatio...

[1] We discuss the existence of large, complex merged interaction regions (MIRs) in the solar wind near Earth. MIRs can have configurations that cause more prolonged geomagnetic effects than a single flow structure. A MIR or successive MIRs can produce relatively long lasting Forbush decreases at 1 AU. We illustrate MIRs at 1 AU with two examples (MIR-1 and MIR-2) seen by WIND and ACE in the in...

We investigate the evolution of collisionally merged stars with mass of ∼ 100M⊙ which might be formed in dense star clusters. We assumed that massive stars with several tens M⊙ collide typically after ∼ 1Myr of the formation of the cluster and performed hydrodynamical simulations of several collision events. Our simulations show that after the collisions, merged stars have extended envelopes an...

E. Dimitriadou, M. Barth, K. Hornik, E. Moser Dept. of Statistics, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Dept. of Radiodiagnostics, Medical University, Vienna, Austria, MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University, Vienna, Austria, Dept. of Statistics, University of Economics, Vienna, Austria Introduction: Exploratory data analysis (EDA) methods may be used to identify important aspects wit...