An information retrieval performance measure that is interpreted as the percent of perfect performance (PPP) can be used to study the effects of the inclusion of specific document features or feature classes or techniques in an information retrieval system. Using this, one can measure the relative quality of a new ranking algorithm, the result of incorporating specific types of metadata or folk...

The Relationships Between Real Time Energy Balance, Hunger, and Body Composition Delk A, Benardot D, Nucci A, & Thompson WR. Georgia State University Introduction: Previous research has indicated that hunger is associated with the quantity, volume, and macronutrient composition of food intake. Hunger has never been assessed from the viewpoint of real time energy balance, although there is limit...

This paper proposes an event-based hierarchical knowledge structure for Chinese news display. We apply Hierarchical Topic Detection and Tracking technique to group news reports into clusters. Considering the extensibility of events, the knowledge structure is designed with robustness to merge similar reports and reorganize the structure automatically. This brings the merit of tracking associate...

cultural, social, political, and regulatory contexts as they expand their global presence. Of the 900 multinational enterprises (MNEs) surveyed in DDI and The Conference Board’s Global Leadership Forecast 2014|2015, 52 percent planned on expanding their global operations over the next three years, yet only a paltry 16 percent of these organizations reported having sufficient ready leaders to fi...

BACKGROUND Uremic toxin has emerged as an important determinant of cardiovascular risk. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between serum uremic toxin and coronary plaque composition on integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound (IB-IVUS). METHODS AND RESULTS IB-IVUS was performed in 47 patients with planned treatment for angina pectoris. Non-culprit intermediate plaque...

Based on the valence model of expectancy theory and the Cornell model of job satisfaction, this field study investigated the relationship between reward contingency, unemployment, pay satisfaction, job satisfaction, and functional turnover. The latter of which separates turnover into four categories: poor performing leavers, good performing leavers, poor performing stayers, and good performing ...

The primary response of A/J mice to p-azobenzenearsonate-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (ABA-KLH) was investigated. A day-by-day analysis at the plaque- forming cell (PFC) level was performed, with inhibition by anti-cross- reactive idiotype (CRI) serum to determine percentage of CRI(+) PFC. A regular pattern in the dynamics of Id (idiotype) dominance was observed. Just as in the NP-b and NP-a syste...

Word segmentation is an important issue in Japanese language processing because Japanese is written without space delimiters between words. We propose a simple dictionary-less method to segment Japanese kanji sequences into words based solely on character n-gram counts from an unannotated corpus. The performance was often better than that of rule-based morphological analyzers over a variety of ...

Chronic exposure to arsenic is occurring throughout South and East Asia due to groundwater contamination of well water. Variability in susceptibility to arsenic toxicity may be related to nutritional status. Arsenic is methylated to monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) via one-carbon metabolism, a biochemical pathway that is dependent on folate. The majority of one-carbon...