Shotgun metagenomics provides a powerful assumption-free approach to the recovery of pathogen genomes from contemporary and historical material. We sequenced the metagenome of a calcified nodule from the skeleton of a 14th-century middle-aged male excavated from the medieval Sardinian settlement of Geridu. We obtained 6.5-fold coverage of a Brucella melitensis genome. Sequence reads from this g...

the doruneh fault is one of the longest and most prominent faults in iran. however, only two recorded historical earthquakes with magnitudes more than 7 might be related to this fault. for getting more information on this fault more investigation in different fields are required. fault displacement is one of the most important parameters needed to explore the fault activity. in this study, with...

In this paper we present the PRiSMHA project, whose main goal is to demonstrate that a rich semantic representation of the content of historical documents is useful since it can significantly improve the access to archival resources and sustainable thanks to a crowdsourcing approach. This goal poses interesting research challenges, both for the semantic model definition and the user interaction...

This paper describes the system WHUSUM we developed to participate in the update summarization task of TAC 2009. Given a topic and corresponding topic statement, this year's task is to write 2 summaries (one for Document Set A and one for Document Set B) that meet the information need expressed in the topic statement. In order to generate a topic-oriented summary for Set A, We present a co-trai...

With the new interest in historical documents insight grew that electronic access to these texts causes many specific problems. In the first part of the paper we survey the present role of digital historical documents. After collecting central facts and observations on historical language change we comment on the difficulties that result for retrieval and data mining on historical texts. In the...

Static ontologies cannot capture the relevant contextual knowledge required for search and retrieval of historical documents because the entities in the world and the relations among them change over time. This demands that information represented in the ontology is temporally contextualized and that relations among entities that are relevant during different temporal intervals are available to...

Content Management Systems [1] are widely used in web sites and portals lately, promoting collaboration among groups of users. Collaboration applies to many fields and storytelling in the Web is one of them. When a group of users can contribute into telling a story the result could be apart from a more detailed story, an interesting educational method. Since the main purpose of a storyteller is...

Timeand state-domain methods are two common approaches to nonparametric prediction. Whereas the former uses data predominantly from recent history, the latter relies mainly on historical information. Combining these two pieces of valuable information is an interesting challenge in statistics. We surmount this problem by dynamically integrating information from both the time and state domains. T...