This year’s interactive cross-lingual information access experiment was designed to measure three parameters we expected could affect the performance of users in cross-lingual tasks in languages in which the users are less than fluent. Firstly, introducing new technology, we measure the effect of topic-tailored term expansion on query formulation. Secondly, introducing a new component in the in...

The height, width and cross-sectional area of the bullfrog amphibian papilla tectorial membrane were quantitatively analysed from frontal serial sections. The cross-sectional area (which is a measure of mass) of the tectorium does not appear to be linearly graded along the length of the papilla, but rather spatial gradations occur in more or less a step-wise manner. The spatially graded area (o...

This paper describes an approach to automatically align fragments of texts of two documents in different languages. A text fragment is a list of continuous sentences and an aligned pair of fragments consists of two fragments in two documents, which are content-wise related. Cross-lingual similarity between fragments of texts is estimated based on models of divergence from randomness. A set of a...

approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

A new OECD/NEA benchmark entitled “Reactivity compensation with diluted boron by stepwise insertion of control rod cluster” is starting. This benchmark, based on high quality measurements performed at the NPP Rostov Unit 2, aims to validate and assess fidelity multi-physics simulation code capabilities. The Benchmark divided in two phases: assembly wise pin-by-pin resolution steady-state transi...

Major advances in languages, tools and methodologies have improved our ability to develop reactive systems, but the task remains difficult, expensive and error prone. One of the key reasons is the growing complexity of many kinds of reactive systems, which increasingly prevents the human mind from managing a comprehensive picture of all their relevant elements and behaviors. We present a vision...