Business Intelligence (BI) over unstructured text is under intense scrutiny both in the industry and research. Recent work in this field includes automatic integrating of unstructured text into business analytics, model recognition, and probabilistic databases to handle uncertainty of Information Extraction (IE). However, still an open issue is how to handle IE quality, which is a part of ETL l...

Understanding and Explaining Corruption A case study of Afghanistan Södertörns University | Department of Social Science Master Thesis | Political Science | Spring Term 2016 (Master Degree in Political Science) Author: Enayatulla Adel Tutor: Johan Eriksson

Patients with medically unexplained symptoms comprise from 15% to 30% of all primary care consultations. Physicians often assume that psychological factors account for these symptoms, but current theories of psychogenic causation, somatization, and somatic amplification cannot fully account for common unexplained symptoms. Psychophysiological and sociophysiological models provide plausible medi...

In the pure spinor formalism for the superstring and supermembrane, supersymmet-ric invariants are constructed by integrating over five θ's in d=10 and over nine θ's in d=11. This pure spinor superspace is easily explained using the superform (or " ecto-plasm ") method developed by Gates and collaborators, and generalizes the standard chiral superspace in d=4. The ectoplasm method is also usefu...

The increasing reliance on automated reasoning needs not just the availability of fast reasoners, but also mechanisms to explain their, often surprising, results to human users, so that they can understand the consequences in their application domain. As one of the significant applications of machine reasoning is the Semantic Web, where reasoning on Description Logic(DL) plays a critical role, ...

Greenberg’s (1963) Universal 34 states that “No language has a trial number unless it has a dual. No language has a dual unless it has a plural.” We present an associative model of the acquisition of grammatical number based on the RescorlaWagner learning theory (Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) that predicts this generalization. Number as a real-world category is inherently structured: higher numerosi...

business process improvement to a change in leadership. One hundred and eight respondents (32.2 percent) also pointed to planning as an important factor. Planning is included in the leadership group as it is most often a leadership initiative. Garland Elmore, associate vice president for teaching and learning information technology and dean of information technology at Indiana University, descr...

Cold fusion (aka LENR) has been difficult for many people to accept and a challenge to explain. Many attempts have been made to a varying depth, using a variety of different assumptions, while arriving at a variety of different conclusions. Most efforts either conflict with what is known in materials science and/or do not explain all behavior of the phenomenon. As yet, no explanation provides a...

Resource-constrained project scheduling problems are one of the most studied scheduling problem, and constraint programming with nogood learning provides the state-of-the-art solving technology for them, at least when the aim is minimizing makespan. In this paper we examine the closely related problem of scheduling producers and consumers of discrete resources and reservoirs. Producer/consumer ...