in this paper, we have clarified the necessity and motivation about legal act of discerning minor. after this introduction, we have classified related subjects into two topics and here we have investigated each one of them. in first topics of concepts and definitions, discerning minor and legal acts have been investigated. for second topic, we have selected legal acts of discerning minor and ha...

Neuropsychological research frequently uses non-clinical undergraduate participants to evaluate neuropsychological tests. However, a recent study by An and colleagues (2012, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 27, 849-857) called into question that the extent to which the interpretation of these participants' performance on neuropsychological tests is valid. This study found that in a sample ...

In this paper, we give an overview of our invalidity patent search system for NTCIR-4 PATENT. The system is based on the document retrieval technique and the new methods that are suitable for the invalidity search; the query term extraction based on characteristics of invention, the retrieval model using components of invention, the ranking using the term weighting based on category information...

This paper describes our work at the sixth NTCIR workshop on the subtask of invalidity search for patent retrieval. We compared different patent surrogates for their effectiveness on invalidity search. Our preliminary results show that the query by the Claims field plus PRF (pseudo relevance feedback) leads to the best results in terms of relevance degree A while the query by all free-text fiel...