The economic dependency of the Eastern Caribbean on tourism has been welldocumented (Ferguson 1997, Lea 1998, Patullo 1996). A large element of its attractiveness depends on its connotations of paradise in the Minority World, and therefore it is an economic necessity that paradise is continually simulatable. The widespread development of all-inclusive resorts, or what Bauman has termed ‘reserva...

The generalized transitive closure operator can be used to ask and answer a number of sophisticated queries on a database which is viewed as a directed graph. These queries cannot be expressed in SQL or relational algebra and neither can they be answered by commercially available relational or object-oriented database systems. In this report we describe the design and implementation of the gene...

There are statements I wish to protest in the Focus article "Trouble in Paradise" by John F. Lauerman published in Environmental Health Perspectives [105:914-917 (1997)]. These statements appear to have been attributed to me, but I can assure you I would never have made them. First, there is the suggestion that I included atrazine among a list of agricultural chemicals used in pineapple cultiva...

This article presents the participation of the medGIFT group in ImageCLEFmed 2013. Since 2004, the group has participated in the medical image retrieval tasks of ImageCLEF each year. There are four types of tasks for ImageCLEFmed 2013: modality classification, image– based retrieval, case–based retrieval and a new task on compound figure separation. The medGIFT group participated in all four ta...

The design of methods for performance evaluation is a major open research issue in the area of spoken language dialogue systems. This paper presents the PARADISE methodology for developing predictive models of spoken dialogue performance, and shows how to evaluate the predictive power and generalizability of such models. To illustrate the methodology, we develop a number of models for predictin...