Difangzhi (地方志) is a large collection of local gazetteers complied by local governments of China, and the documents provide invaluable information about the host locality. This paper reports the current status of using natural language processing and text mining methods to identify biographical information of government officers so that we can add the information into the China Biographical Dat...

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Background Involuntary treatment is an integral and controversial part of psychiatric practice worldwide. Many concerns have been raised regarding the personal and legal impact of involuntary interventions in the course of psychiatric treatment [1]. Objective: To explore what it means for people to have experienced involuntary treatment with regard to their biography – their life story as well ...

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Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mirosława Narkiewicz (maiden name: Broda) was born on 19th September 1931 in Łuck (Volhynia region, today in the Ukraine). She started her education in 1938, and during the war continued it in clandestine classes. She lived in her family town until 1943, then moved to Mościce near Tarnów, and from July 1945 she lived in Sopot with her parents and two younger brothers: Henryk and Zbigniew. She c...

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Intelligence analysts face the need for immediate, up-to-date information about individuals of interest. While biographies can be written and stored in text databases, we argue that they can get quickly obsolete for living persons. We present here the architecture of ProGenIE, a biographical description generator currently under construction, focusing on the requirements of the task and its imp...

This study aimed to identify biographical predictors of children pianists’ motor skills in a relevant musical context. Motor skills at the piano were assessed in 30 piano-playing children by testing temporal evenness in standardized scale playing which is a basic element of piano technique. Questionnaires were used to collect detailed information regarding the practice habits and other biograph...