We present a memory-based approach to learning commonsense causal relations from episodic text. The method relies on dynamic memory that consists of events, event schemata, episodes, causal heuristics, and cousol hypotheses. The learning algorithms are based on applying causal heuristicsto precedents of new information. The heuristics are derived from principles of causation, and, to a limited ...

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Innovation is among the key factors driving a country’s economic and social growth. But what are the factors that make a country innovative? How do they differ across different parts of the world and different stages of development? In this work done in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), we analyze the scores obtained through executive opinion surveys that constitute the WEF’s G...

Concerned about missing potentially catastrophic neurologic injury, emergency physicians have typically made liberal use of radiographic imaging to evaluate blunt trauma patients for cervical spine injuries. This practice subjects large numbers of patients to imaging, with its associated cost, time expenditure, and radiation exposure, in order to detect injury in a small minority. Consequently,...

Developers are using real-time analysis tools in the development stage, to debug real-time events either not observable during “run-stop” debug sessions, or limited by the requirements of the application; such as inherently not freezable systems like engine control or pace makers. Furthermore, engineers are using real-time analysis tools in their final development stage to do performance tuning...

The excessive focus on water mounts a challenge to the sustainable development. Energy is another aspect that should be taken into account. Nexus approach is characterized by an equal emphasis on energy and water spheres. In arid areas, like the city of Kashan, Iran, non-conventional waters (e.g. desalinated and recycled waters) have been considered as an alternative resource of water. Nexus wa...

We discuss the fastboot interface of the Android bootloader, an area of fragmentation in Android devices. We then present a variety of vulnerabilities we have found across multiple Android devices. Most notable ones include Secure Boot & Device Locking bypasses in the Motorola and OnePlus 3/3T bootloaders. Another critical flaw in OnePlus 3/3T enables easy attacks by malicious chargers – the on...

There is much controversy surrounding the poverty-environmental degradation nexus. The predominant school of thought argues that poverty is a major cause of environmental degradation and if policy makers want to address the environmental issues, then they must first address the poverty problem. Another school of thought argues that this causal link is too simplistic and the nexus is governed by...

La innovación involucra tanto una actividad como el resultado de esta (OCDE y Eurostat, 2018) está relacionada con las capacidades innovación, consideradas un activo especial para desarrollo comercialización nuevas tecnologías, la introducción nuevos productos adopción procesos, especialmente en contextos rápido cambio tecnológico. Las a su vez son determinantes no solo los resultados sino tamb...