Experiments relating to TREC-8 Ad Hoc, Web Track (Large and Small) and Query Track tasks are described and results reported. Due to time constraints, only minimal e ort was put into Ad Hoc and Query Track participation. In the Web Track, Google-style PageRanks were calculated for all 18.5 million pages in the VLC2 collection and for the 0.25 million pages in the WT2g collection. Various combina...

The HERA collider has recently been upgraded to produce a factor of approximately 5 more luminosity. In parallel, upgrades to the H1 detector and trigger have been necessary. One of the projects was the design of an improved Fast Track Trigger (FTT) which should replace the old track trigger and is based on the central drift chambers of the H1 experiment. This work describes the design and expe...

Arrays of polymer films embedded with conductive or resistive material have attracted significant attention as “electronic noses”. Sorption of a vapor into the polymer films causes physical swelling, which leads to a change in the DC electrical resistance of the film. Like the receptors of the mammalian olfactory system, each polymer-based detector responds to more than one analyte and each ana...

Accepted: September 01, 2015 Study carried out at Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 1 Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 2 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Financial support: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP, process n...

[1] Noble gas data from the Glacial Drift, the shallowest aquifer in southern Michigan confirm findings by Ma et al. (2004) that modern noble gas temperatures (NGTs) are systematically below the current mean annual air temperature (MAAT) which, in turn, is similar to the ground temperature of these recharge waters. By tracking noble gas concentrations as well as stable isotope ratios through an...

The 2-Amino,4,6-dinitrotoluene(2Am-DNT) is a non-enzymatic chemical metabolite of TNT (trinitro toluene) which is an important hazardous environmental pollutant. Genomic DNA was isolated from the NG108 cells treated with 2 Am-DNT for seven hours and also from untreated cells. DNA spanning p53 tumor suppressor gene exons 6-9 and parts of exon 5 and 10 was PCR amplified from both the control and ...

In this paper I offer a defense of the view that judges should decide cases in accordance with act utilitarianism: i.e., in whatever way maximizes overall well-being. To advance this thesis, I first briefly give reasons for dissatisfaction with the commonsense thought that judges should just decide cases as the law requires. I then briefly argue for the claim that all moral agents, including ju...

In ‘‘Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account’’ (MIT Press 2001) (henceforth CD), I argued that complex demonstratives are quantifiers. Many philosophers had held that demonstratives, both simple and complex, are referring terms. Since the publication of CD various objections to the account of complex demonstratives I defended in it have been raised. In the present work, I lay out the...

In previous work (Wilson forthcoming), I have endorsed an account of the physical according to which an entity is physical just in case it is (approximately accurately) treated by current or future (in the limit of inquiry, ideal) physics, and is not fundamentally mental. Call this account of the physical the physics-based NFM (“no fundamental mentality”) account. The physics-based NFM account ...