For this project we had access to Walmart's sales data from the Northern Illinois region for October 7, 2011 November 7, 2011 as well as 3 billion tweets from a similar time frame. We began this project with an aim to predict the sales of Halloween costumes for Walmart using Twitter as a signal. The analysis we conducted showed that one could indeed correlate the sales of Halloween costumes wit...

This research was motivated by the lack of development children's ability to mention letter symbols caused media used teachers in learning process recognize letters that did not attract hearts, thus making children less enthusiastic and eager participate activities. The purpose this study is improve quality group B Nuruttaqwa Kindergarten Banjarmasin. approach uses qualitative quantitative appr...

16 This paper describes the results of research designed to explore reporting of three indices 17 (Corruption Perception Index, CPI, Human Development Index, HDI and the Ecological 18 Footprint, EF) in the UK national press between January 1990 and December 2009. 19 Reporting of the indices was assessed by: 20 (a) the number of articles published each year mentioning the index at least once 21 ...

BACKGROUND In 2015, 5.3 million babies died in the third trimester of pregnancy and first month following birth. Progress in reducing neonatal mortality and stillbirth rates has lagged behind the substantial progress in reducing postneonatal and maternal mortality rates. The benefits to prenatal and neonatal health (PNH) from maternal and child health investments cannot be assumed. METHODS We...

BACKGROUND Studies of mortality from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have relied on death certification or registration for case finding. The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of death certification and registration in asthma and COPD. METHODS All death certificates in Northern Ireland for 1987 where asthma or COPD (defined as International Classification...

Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience is an emerging and promising new scientific field that combines the meta-theoretical strengths of an evolutionary perspective with the methodological rigor of neuroscience. The purpose of the present research was to quantify and test evolution’s influence in neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience journals over time (1987-2006). In Study 1, analyses from a co...

Although some online communities have been able to produce high quality products and to engage thousands of users, community designers usually struggle to engage new users and increase the level of contribution of current users. Some researchers have explored approaches to persuade users to collaborate. An important strand of this research area is based on sending messages to the current users ...

1 HERE are social practices and virtues which, if we are to characterize them, require us to mention the truth. This is not the same as mentioning what other people hold true (their beliefs), or just mentioning what we regard as true (our own beliefs). We may contrast in this respect two different virtues of truth, which may be labeled sincerity and accuracy. Sincerity (at the most basic level)...