This overview presents the framework and the results for the Author Profiling task at PAN 2014. Objective of this year is the analysis of the adaptability of the detection approaches when given different genres. For this purpose a corpus with four different parts (subcorpora) has been compiled: social media, Twitter, blogs, and hotel reviews. The construction of the Twitter subcorpus happened i...

Visitors of web sites are generally heterogeneous and have different needs. The aim of the AVANTI project is to cater to these individual needs by adapting the content and the presentation of web pages to each individual user. The special needs of elderly and handicapped users are also partly considered. A model of the characteristics of user groups and individual users and a domain model are e...

Multilocation yield trials on late duration (106-125 days) finger millet genotypes were conducted under early and late transplanting at Bhubaneswar and early direct-sown condition at Berhampur for three years 2004-2006, during kharif season. G×E interaction analysis of grain yield in AMMI (Additive Main and Multiplicative Interaction) model showed differential interaction of the genotypes in th...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine changes in students' cross-cultural effectiveness using the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI). The inventory assessed strengths and weaknesses in 4 skill areas: Emotional Resilience, Flexibility/Openness, Perceptual Acuity, and Personal Autonomy. METHODS The CCAI was administered to 30 dental hygiene students during Orientation. Ag...

Currently, the Bulgarian market is rather limited for the Bulgarian industry. Therefore, most of the middle range industrial enterprises in Bulgaria are export orientated. These enterprises are units in various international supply chains and they implement different forms of mass customization. The supply chain flexibility is main instrument to cope with the increasing uncertainty and competit...

There are two factoring extremes: "Either one gets a large number of reuses with minuscule payoff (small general components) or small number of highly profitable reuses within an overly narrow domain (large specific components)." [Biggerstaff94] An optimal factoring maximizes both payoffs by encapsulating orthogonal features in components. In this way it is possible to build large components (w...

Centrally administered bureaucracies are ill suited to managing the environmental resources of complex social-ecological systems. Therefore management approaches are required that can better deal with its complexity and uncertainty, which are further exacerbated by developments such as climate change. Adaptive comanagement (ACM) has emerged as a relatively novel governance approach and potentia...