In this report, the results from my CS224D final project are given and explained. The project was based on the application of relatively new neural network architectures, namely convolutional neural networks over word embeddings, to the task of authorship identification. The problem was posed as a classification task and models were evaluated over two datasets, a baseline of my own collection a...

IN HIS VIEWPOINT “INSURANCE IN A CLIMATE OF change” (12 Aug., p. 1040), E. Mills suggests that changes in climate have been responsible for some part of the trend in recent decades of increasing damage related to extreme weather. This claim is not supported by the peer-reviewed literature, including the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (1). Over recent ...

the locus of control is a construct reflecting beliefs about the control of behavior and life events. according to this perception, people are grouped into two main categories: an internal and external locus of control. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between wheat yield performance, locus of control and wheat growers’ (wg) characteristics. survey research met...