If interspecific competition is a strong structuring force of communities, ecologically similar species should tend to have spatial ranges at local scale that do not overlap. Experimental testing of this hypothesis becomes impracticable with large communities. One possibility to tackle this issue is a correlational approach, by comparing the matrix of niche overlap with that of spatial overlap....

My talk is divided into five parts. In the first part the relevance of the chiral fermion issue to fundamental particle physics and to numerical QCD will be explained. In the second part the basic ideas of the overlap construction will be reviewed. In the third part I shall focus on the algebraic (as opposed to kinematic) meaning of the overlap. In the fourth part I shall discuss in greater det...

In distributed information retrieval, answers from separate collections are combined into a single result set. However, the collections may overlap. The fact that the collections are distributed means that it is not in general feasible to prune duplicate and near-duplicate documents at index time. In this paper we introduce and analyze the grainy hash vector, a compact document representation t...

If a dialog system could respond to a user as naturally as a human, the interaction would be smoother. Imitating human prosodic characteristics of utterances is important in computerto-human natural interaction. To develop a cooperative/friendly spoken dialog system, we analyzed the correlation between the fundamental frequency’s synchrony tendency, or overlap frequency, and subjective measures...

Health coaches and psychotherapists both work with the art and science of facilitating change in their patients and clients. While the evolving field of health coaching and the established disciplines of clinical or counseling psychology share major areas of overlap, there are also significant distinctions between the two fields. This article outlines those similarities and dissimilarities with...