The AKARI/IRC Point Source Catalogue Version 1.0 provides positions and fluxes of 870,973 sources (844,649 sources in 9μm band and 194,551 sources in 18μm band) in the Mid-Infrared wavelengths. This document describes the outline of the data processing and calibration, and basic performance of the released catalogue. The users of the catalogue are requested to read this document carefully befor...

We expand Crawford and Sobel’s (1982) model of information transmission to allow for the costly provision of ‘hard evidence’ in addition to conventional cheap talk. Under mild assumptions we prove that equilibria have an interval-partition structure, where types of the Sender belonging to the same interval either all induce the same action through cheap talk or reveal their types through hard e...

Ultrasound parameters were proposed to characterize femur in vitro from rats. Six quantitative parameters (Apparent Integrated Ultrasonic Backscatter AIB, Frequency Slope of Apparent Backscatter – FSAB, Temporal Slope Apparent Backscatter TSAB, Integrated Reflection Coefficient IRC, Slope and Frequency Integrated Reflection FSIR and Temporal Slope Reflection Coefficient TSRC) were applied to th...

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This paper examines collaborative work networks and media use among a class of distributed university distance learners. Social network data on interactions via each of the available media were gathered at three times during the term. Class members made most use of Webboard, IRC, Email and face-to-face meetings. Results showed that media filled different niches in the collaborative work pattern...

December 2011 JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH 6 INTRODUCTION The growing popularity of using sports and entertainment celebrities in brand advertising is evident in the marketplace. In both the United States and China, celebrity endorsement is a key executional strategy that continues to grow in popularity (Chan, Hung, Tse, and Tse, 2008). In the United States, one of four advertisements uses c...

A multi-secret sharing scheme allows several secrets to be shared amongst a group of participants. In 2005, Shao and Cao developed a verifiable multi-secret sharing scheme where each participant’s share can be used several times which reduces the number of interactions between the dealer and the group members. In addition, some secrets may require a higher security level than others involving t...

Executive Summary: This report presents initial data from a follow-up study of youth who had been associated with the RUF rebel group in Sierra Leone and were subsequently part of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) community reintegration program following formal disarmament and demobilization in the country. Also added to this wave of data collection was a new sample of ex-RUF youth fr...

As is now obvious, our traditional notions of document are breaking apart as the very idea of "office memo" or "textbook chapter" are shapeshifting under the influence of new technologies. Media exists in many forms, and are now as likely to be email, pointers to web sites, references to IRC channels, images in the body of the document, even sound annotations and entire video segments. In this ...

When multiple conversations occur simultaneously, a listener must decide which conversation each utterance is part of in order to interpret and respond to it appropriately. We refer to this task as disentanglement. We present a corpus of Internet Relay Chat dialogue in which the various conversations have been manually disentangled, and evaluate annotator reliability. We propose a graph-based c...