English. We present a novel algorithm and a linguistic resource named CLOSEST after ‘Common SEnse STrainer’. The resource contains a list of the main senses associated to a given term, and it was obtained by applying a simple set of pruning heuristics to the senses provided in the NASARI vectors for the set of 15K most frequent English terms. The preliminary experimentation provided encouraging...

Il Presidente dello SBA rappresenta il sistema ed esercita funzioni di iniziativa e promozione; convoca a presiede il Comitato di indirizzo e controllo, cura l'attuazione delle decisioni del Comitato stesso, predispone la relazione annuale sull'attività dello SBA. Ai sensi dello statuto è investito di poteri dirigenziali e gestionali che esercita in conformità alla normativa generale ed alla re...

" As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? " –William Marcy " Boss " Tweed I write this in Menlo Park, California, on 5 October 2003, when it's still unclear whether the citizens of this state will choose to have the American governor with the best pectoral muscles , despite his seeming to have the same trouble with the multiple meanings of " respect for women " that Bil...

This report uses hypothetical decommissioning test cases to illustrate an uncertainty assessment methodology for dose assessments conducted as part of decommissioning analyses for NRC-licensed facilities. This methodology was pre sented previously in NUREG/CR-6656. The hypothetical test case source term and scenarios are based on an actual decommissioning case and the physical setting is based ...

Il Presidente dello SBA rappresenta il sistema ed esercita funzioni di iniziativa e promozione; convoca a presiede il Comitato di indirizzo e controllo, cura l'attuazione delle decisioni del Comitato stesso, predispone la relazione annuale sull'attività dello SBA. Ai sensi dello statuto è investito di poteri dirigenziali e gestionali che esercita in conformità alla normativa generale ed alla re...

An investigation of sensible and latent heat fluxes and their relation to synoptic weather events was performed using hourly meteorological measurements from National Data Buoy Center buoy 45003, located in northern Lake Huron, during April–November of 1984. Two temporal heat flux regimes were found to exist over Lake Huron. The first period extended from April through July and was characterize...

Data ambiguity is inherent in applications such as data integration, location-based services, and sensor monitoring. In many situations, it is possible to “clean”, or remove, ambiguities from these databases. For example, the GPS location of a user is inexact due to measurement errors, but context information (e.g., what a user is doing) can be used to reduce the imprecision of the location val...

it is widely held that although very few works by muslim philosophers deal exclusively with art and beauty, nonetheless specific discussions on these subjects can be extracted from their works. this is certainly true in the case of qadi said qummi, who gives a separate treatment of art and beauty in his commentary on the fourth chapter of the uthulojia (the theology of aristotle). the essential...

Two experiments tested the effectiveness of an egotistic trap, a social influence technique based on premise that people agree to requests align with their desirable qualities. In first experiment, were asked participate in survey-based study. control conditions (standard request), approx. 32.7% said yes. Yet, when it was mentioned intelligent individuals sought after and subject appeared intel...

Wild olive crude extracts were screened for antibacterial activity against five different bacterial human pathogens. Four different solvents were used for the extraction. Antibacterial activities of plant extracts were compared with those of standard antibiotics. The capacity of the extracts and antibiotics were evaluated on the basis of their capacity to inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacter...