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News Feature: Special agents offer modeling upgrade.

When news of West Africa’s Ebola outbreak first appeared in the spring of 2014, “the world wasn’t paying a lot of attention,” says Bryan Lewis. After all, previous flare-ups of the virus had burned out quickly, mainly because victims tend to die of fever, shock, and spontaneous bleeding before they can spread the virus very far. Except this time was different. In the hardest hit nations of Guin...

A Personalized and Context-Aware News Offer for Mobile Devices

For classical domains, such as movies, recommender systems have proven their usefulness. But recommending news is more challenging due to the short life span of news content and the demand for up-to-date recommendations. This paper presents a news recommendation service with a content-based algorithm that uses features of a search engine for content processing and indexing, and a collaborative ...

Good News and Bad News: Search from Unknown Wage Offer Distributions

The largest market in national economies is the labor market. Labor market contracting is characterized by job search, often from unknown wage offer distributions. This paper reports experimental tests of finite horizon models of job search in which the wage offer distribution is unknown. Theoretically-optimal search from an unknown wage offer distribution can have the seemingly paradoxical pro...

Soundscapes offer unique opportunities for studies of fish communities.

Resource partitioning is a fundamental ecological concept in which cooccurring species reduce competition by using or specializing on different resources (1). It is widely accepted as a mechanism permitting similar species to cooccur, leading to increased levels of species diversity (2). Typically, resources are thought of as food, habitat, or behavioral features such as timing of foraging and ...

Proving HIV-1 immunity: new tools offer new opportunities.