The South African Dorper is an important terminal meat sire breed in Africa that was recently imported into the United States. The objective of this study was to evaluate the Dorper as a terminal meat sire breed for U.S. production. Semen from purebred Dorper sires was used to artificially inseminate Columbia ewes to produce F1 crossbred lambs. Growth and carcass characteristics of F1 Dorper-Co...

In this paper, we describe the people attribute extraction system of the CASIANED team for the second Web People search evaluation (WePS-2). We develop an attribute extraction system based on information extraction. Firstly the attribute candidates for every attribute class are extracted using several different information extraction techniques; then these candidates are verified through classi...

In this paper, we present an approach for recognizing spatial containment relations that hold between event mentions. Event mentions refer to real-world events that have spatio-temporal properties. While the temporal aspect of event relations has been well-studied, the spatial aspect has received relatively little attention. The difficulty in this task is the highly implicit nature of event loc...

This paper investigates the problem of identifying participants in online discussions whose contribution can be considered sensible. Sensibleness of a participant can be indicative of the influence a participant may have on the course/outcome of the discussion, as well as other participants in terms of persuading them towards his/her stance. The proposed sensibleness model uses features based o...

The theory of elastic group transfer for the binding and release rate constants for nucleotides in F1-ATPase as a function of the rotor angle is further extended in several respects. (i) A method is described for predicting the experimentally observed lifetime distribution of long binding events in the controlled rotation experiments by taking into account the hydrolysis and synthesis reactions...

This paper describes the process of integrating into a rule-based parser a set of approximately 1,000 nominal predicates forming support verb constructions (SVC) with the verb dar ‘give’ in Brazilian Portuguese. The system was evaluated on a sample of 580 sentences containing verb-noun combinations candidates to SVC, manually and independently annotated. Best results yield 85% precision, 79% re...

Students in network-based learning environments may have their own learning paths based on either their learning results or status. The learning system can choose suitable learning materials for individual students depending on students’ learning results. There is a lot of research about learning diagnosis in distance education, and the main objective is to improve students’ learning effects. T...