While awaiting direct velocity measurement of gas motions in the hot intracluster medium, we rely on indirect probes, including perturbations galaxy clusters. Using a sample $\sim 80$ clusters different dynamic states from Omega500 cosmological simulations, examine scaling relations between fluctuation amplitudes density, $\delta\rho/\rho$, pressure, $\delta P/P$, X-ray surface brightness, Suny...

We describe a technique of linguistic post-processing of whole-book recognition results. Whole-book recognition is a technique that improves recognition of book images using fully automatic cross-entropy-based model adaptation. In previous published works, word recognition was performed on individual words separately, without awaring passage-level information such as word-occurrence frequencies...

BACKGROUND Laboratory and home-based research suggest that repeated exposure to vegetables may increase consumption among children. Effectiveness of repeated exposure to vegetables has not been tested in a community-based preschool setting. OBJECTIVE This randomized controlled trial tested the hypotheses that children who are served unfamiliar vegetables repeatedly in the preschool lunch sett...

Interfaces between a coaxial structure and a post-wall waveguide are proposed as the essential components for cost-effective millimeter-wave modules. PTFE substrate is selected in terms of loss and manufacturability. The reflection and the transmission characteristics are investigated. The short-stepped and the short-taper-stepped feeding structures provide 14.7% and 13.2% bandwidths for the re...

This paper presents a Chinese Word Segmentation system on MicroBlog corpora for the CIPS-SIGHAN Word Segmentation Bakeoff 2012. Our system employs Conditional Random Fields (CRF) as the segmentation model. To make our model more adaptive to MicroBlog, we manually analyze and annotate many MicroBlog messages. After manually checking and analyzing the MicroBlog text, we propose several pre-proces...

A paragraph on the negative side of Romanticism, however, is in order, since Romanticism is negative at base: it developed in understandable disillusionment over the excessively optimistic claims of the Enlightenment after the fiasco of the French Revolution and its aftermath. Its discontent was wider than the Enlightenment, however: it was a discontent with civilization as such, as was argued ...

The complex word identification task refers to the process of identifying difficult words in a sentence from the perspective of readers belonging to a specific target audience. This task has immense importance in the field of lexical simplification. Lexical simplification helps in improving the readability of texts consisting of challenging words. As a participant of the SemEval-2016: Task 11 s...

Skip-Gram word embeddings, estimated from large text corpora, have been shown to improve many NLP tasks through their highquality features. However, little is known about their robustness against parameter perturbations and about their e ciency in preserving word similarities under memory constraints. In this paper, we investigate three post-processing methods for word embeddings to study their...

Financial stress is associated with fewer quit attempts and higher relapse rates. This study aimed to compare financial stress among smokers, ex-smokers and never smokers in a highly socioeconomically disadvantaged sample. The study also aimed to determine whether specific indicators of financial stress differ according to smoking status. Adult clients seeking welfare assistance from two Social...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact on nutrition- and health-related practice of two methods of delivery of a nutrition and health intervention in Irish full-day-care pre-schools: training of pre-school managers only or training of managers and their staff. DESIGN A simple randomised study with pre-schools divided into two training groups: 'manager trained' and 'manager and staff trained'. Direc...