Headlines play a crucial role in attracting audiences’ attention to online artefacts (e.g. news articles, videos, blogs). The ability to carry out an automatic, largescale analysis of headlines is critical to facilitate the selection and prioritisation of a large volume of digital content. In journalism studies news content has been extensively studied using manually annotated news values – fac...

According t for notifiable The aim of the EU ACUTEX project is to develop a methodology for establishing European Acute Exposure Threshold Levels (EU AETLs) for toxic substances in relation to harm to people by inhalation. Their development is initially in the context of the EU ‘Seveso II’ Directive through which the risks of major accidents from chemical sites are regulated. This paper discuss...

Although much work has been done in the linkage mapping of many common disorders with a genetic component such as diabetes, asthma, obesity and schizophrenia, few of the genes involved have been identified. These studies have often mapped disease susceptibility to regions of tens of megabases, potentially containing many hundreds of genes [4]. A method of prioritising such positional candidates...

In the Australian public health system, access to elective surgery is rationed through the use of waiting lists in which patients are assigned to broad urgency categories. Surgeons are principally responsible for referring patients to waiting lists, deciding on the appropriate urgency category, and selecting patients from the waiting list to receive surgery. There are few agreed-upon criteria t...

Requirements prioritization method is an essential activity in software development to identify most important functionalities of the project within limited resources. This work evaluates various requirements prioritization methods with respect to a number of parameters viz. size of the project, feasibility measure, conflicts resolution, complexity analysis and keeps the developer focused on mo...

Two multicriterion decision-making methods, namely ‘compromise programming’ and the ‘technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution’ are employed to prioritise 22 micro-catchments (A1 to A22) of Kherthal catchment, Rajasthan, India and comparative analysis is performed using the compound parameter approach. Seven criteria – drainage density, bifurcation ratio, stream frequenc...

Business process improvement initiatives typically employ various process analysis techniques, including evidence-based analysis techniques such as process mining, to identify new ways to streamline current business processes. While plenty of process mining techniques have been proposed to extract insights about the way in which activities within processes are conducted, techniques to understan...