Objectives: To determine the cancer incidence in Gipuzkoa (Spain) from 1998 to 2002 and describe time trends since 1986. Methods: The annual incidence of cancer in Gipuzkoa from 1998 to 2002 was estimated as a rate per 100,000 inhabitants. Incidence trends for the period 1986-2002 were studied for all cancers and for the main cancer sites using Poisson regression and Joinpoint regression for pr...

We review the literature on national innovation systems. We first focus on the emergence of the concept of innovation systems, reviewing its historical origins and three main flavours (associated to three “founding fathers” of the concept). After this, we discuss how the notion of innovation systems filled a need for providing a broader basis for innovation policy. We conclude with some perspec...

Hate speech in the form of racism and sexism is commonplace on the internet (Waseem and Hovy, 2016). For this reason, there has been both an academic and an industry interest in detection of hate speech. The volume of data to be reviewed for creating data sets encourages a use of crowd sourcing for the annotation efforts. In this paper, we provide an examination of the influence of annotator kn...

1 Department of Mathematics, University College of Engineering Nagercoil, Anna University of Technology Tirunelveli (Nagercoil Campus), Nagercoil 629 004, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Department of Mathematics, R.V.S College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore 641 402, Tamil Nadu, India 3 Department of Mathematics, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore 641 062, Tamil Nadu...