How could the initial, drastic decisions to implement “lockdowns” control spread of Covid-19 infections be justifiable, when they were made on basis such uncertain evidence? We defend imposition lockdowns in some countries by, first, looking at evidence that undergirded decision (focusing particularly decision-making process United Kingdom); second, arguing this provided sufficient grounds rest...

We present an implemented procedure to select an appropriate connective to link two propositions, which is part of a large text generation system. Each connective is defined as a set of constraints between features of flxe propositions it connects. Ore' focus has been to identify pragmatic features flint can be produced by a deep generator to provide a simple representation of connectives. Usin...

The use of fancy graphics can have a mesmerizing effect on simulation novices and, as such, may blind the user to the actual capabilities and valid usages. The visualization of simulations are distinct from other computer graphic media because they are a representation of an abstract of reality (the model) as opposed to a representation of reality. This extended abstract provides examples of vi...

INTRODUCTION Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most important causes of nosocomial infection. Several reports indicated a correlation of antimicrobial usages and declined susceptibilities. In this report, we evaluated their relation in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Tokyo, Japan for 4 years. METHODS We evaluated the susceptibilities of 149 strains of P. aeruginosa isolated from blood...

Corpus based methods are increasingly used for speech technology applications and for the development of theoretical or computer models of spoken languages. These usages range from unit selection speech synthesis to statistical modeling of speech phenomena like prosody or expressivity. In all cases, these usages require a wide range of tools for corpus creation, labeling, symbolic and acoustic ...

assessment of different plant genetic resources clarifies genetic variation and makes it possible to apply them in plant breeding programs. in this experiment, 27 selected lines of common bean (phaseolus vulgaris l.), one local landrace and two conventional bean cultivars (talash and cos-16 as controls), sown using randomized complete block design with three replications in the research farm of...

Corpus based methods are increasingly used for speech technology applications and for the development of theoretical or computer models of spoken languages. These usages range from unit selection speech synthesis to statistical modeling of speech phenomena like prosody or expressivity. In all cases, these usages require a wide range of tools for corpus creation, labeling, symbolic and acoustic ...

We consider dynamic stochastic economies with heterogeneous agents and introduce the concept of uniformly self-justified equilibria (USJE)—temporary for which expectations satisfy following rationality requirements: i) individuals' forecasting functions next period's endogenous variables are assumed to lie in a compact, finite-dimensional set functions, ii) forecasts constitute best uniform app...