In recent years, many systems have been developed which aim at helping users to find pieces of information or other objects that are in accordance with their personal interests. In these systems, machine learning methods are often used to acquire the user interest profile. Frequently user interests drift with time. The ability to adapt fast to the current user's interests is an important featur...

The book “Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid” of A. Maurits Van der Veen is the 120th title published in the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series. The series, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Nicholas J. Wheeler, represents a joint endeavor by Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies Association (BISA). The author is a Dutch researcher who received his MA d...

view. in this paper, the question of influence in the south caucasus and europe :union: foreign policy . a. iran 's regional interests can be defined both in terms of cooperation or conflict , has developed the hypothesis that the objectives and activities of the :union: of europe in the caucasus show that not only the conflict of the conflict between the interests of and the there is no :...

Most evolutionary analyses of animal communication suggest that low-cost signals can evolve only when both the signaller and the recipient rank outcomes in the same order. When there is a conflict of interest between sender and receiver, honest signals must be costly. However, recent work suggests that low-cost signals can be evolutionarily stable, even when the sender and the receiver rank out...

In text mining, a collection of documents is often pre-processed to form a sparse termdocument matrix. In Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), this is followed by a computation of a low-rank approximation to the data matrix, in order to filter out noise and redundancy due to word usage. The computation of these low-rank approximation by factorization algorithms can be time-consuming when the data se...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine career preferences of medical students at the time of entering medical school compared with interns who were graduating; and to determine what factors influence the choice of a special discipline as a career. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey study involving freshmen and interns at Tehran University of Medical Sciences was...

A note on the current state of the law as regards balancing the autonomy, and personal values, of a mentally incapacitated patient against treatment plans with which they do not agree. The author summarises the outcomes of two medical treatment cases heard by the Court of Protection, with similar facts and different results, by way of adding to the advice to practitioners for their communicatio...

Personalized recommendation systems (RS) are extensively used in many services. Many of these are based on learning algorithms where the RS uses the recommendation history and the user response to learn an optimal strategy. Further, these algorithms are based on the assumption that the user interests are rigid. Specifically, they do not account for the effect of learning strategy on the evoluti...

I am broadly interested in computer architecture with particular emphasis on multi-core/multiprocessor systems, memory systems, and performance evaluation methodology. In particular, my future research interests are shaped by the emerging trend towards multi-core systems. Semiconductor industry observers now predict that, instead of processor clock frequencies, cores per die will double every t...