Comparative Political Thought: What Are We Looking At?

Comparing Theories: What are We Looking For?

Two recent papers, (Harless and Camerer, 1994) and (Hey and Orme, 1994) were both addressed to the same question: which is the 'best' theory of decision making under risk? The two papers shared a common concern: the appropriate trade-o between the descriptive accuracy of a theory and the predictive parsimony of that theory. In other respects, however, the two papers di ered markedly: rst in the...

What Are You Looking At?

Protecting the privacy of sensitive information is an important consideration in the design of mobile devices and applications. As computing becomes more pervasive, users are able to access information in places such as airports, stores, and restaurants. When personal information is accessed in such public places, it needs to be shielded from strangers. Techniques are needed for the mobile envi...

What Are We Comparing in Comparative Negligence?

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis: what do we know and what are we looking for?

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease characterised by proliferation of abnormal smooth muscle-like cells (LAM cells) leading to progressive cystic destruction of the lung, lymphatic abnormalities and abdominal tumours. It affects predominantly females and can occur sporadically or in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex. This review describes the recent progress in our understan...

What We Can Learn from Looking at Profanity

Profanity is a common occurrence in online text. Recent studies found swearing words in over 7% of English tweets and 9% of Yahoo! Buzz messages. However, efforts in recognizing, understanding and dealing with profanity do not share resources, namely, their dataset, which imposes duplication of effort and non-comparable results. We here present a freely available dataset of 2500 messages from a...