Abstract In recent decades, many higher education systems around the world have been exposed to institutional mergers. While rationale for mergers has often related issues of improved quality, effectiveness and/or efficiency at level, fewer studies analysed how may affect diversity within landscape. Focusing on missions, current study analyses strategic plans both merged and non-merged institut...

THE 55TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN (CSW) OF THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) closed last month with little fanfare, but there was cause for celebration. For the fi rst time, the CSW, traditionally a forum to examine improvement of women’s rights and gender equality, merged this broad interest with issues of science and technology (S&T). This makes sense because empowering women as...

Research into text-to-speech systems has become a rather important topic in the areas of linguistics and phonetics. Particularly for English, several text-to-speech systems have been established (cf. for' example llertz (1982), Klatt (1976)). For Dutch, text-to-speech systems are being developed at the University of Nijmegen (cf. Wester (1984)) and at the Universities of Utrecht and Leyden and ...

Reputation is generally defined as the opinion of a group on an aspect of a thing. This paper presents a reputation model that follows a probabilistic modelling of opinions based on three main concepts: (1) the value of an opinion decays with time, (2) the reputation of the opinion source impacts the reliability of the opinion, and (3) the certainty of the opinion impacts its weight with respec...

Reputation is generally defined as the opinion of a group on an aspect of a thing. This paper presents a reputation model that follows a probabilistic modelling of opinions based on three main concepts: (1) the value of an opinion decays with time, (2) the reputation of the opinion source impacts the reliability of the opinion, and (3) the certainty of the opinion impacts its weight with respec...

Abstract High-resolution datasets offer the potential to improve our understanding of spatial and temporal precipitation patterns storm structures. The goal this study is evaluate similarities differences object-based characteristics as observed using space- or land-based sensors. Method Object-based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE) Time Domain (MTD) used identify track objects in two high-resoluti...

When documents include graphics such as diagrams, photos, and data plots, the graphics may also require summarization. This paper discusses essential differences in informational content and rhetorical structure between text and graphics, as well as their interplay. The three approaches to graphics summarization discussed are: Selection, in which a subset of figures is chosen; Merging, in which...