Terrestrial sources of marine debris on beaches are substantial, increasing, and primarily a result mismanaged waste land. The scale, source, composition beached in New Zealand was determined by surveying 41 beaches, with triplicate belt transects, across the North South Islands. Results demonstrated significant spatial variance, Island showing significantly higher mean density than more popula...

The International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) is a globally operating service that coordinates and performs Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) activities through its constituent components. The VLBI activities are associated with the creation, provision, dissemination, and archiving of relevant VLBI data and products. The data and products are stored in dedicated IVS com...

The soft cardinality proved to be a very strong text-overlapping baseline for the task of semantic-textual-similarity (STS) obtaining the third place in SemEval-2012. This year, besides to the plain text-overlapping approach, two distributional word-similarity functions derived from the ukWack corpus were tested within the soft cardinality. These measures contributed to improve the performance ...

We explore two approaches to model complement types (NPs and PPs) in an Englishto-German SMT system: A simple abstract representation inserts pseudo-prepositions that mark the beginning of noun phrases, to improve the symmetry of source and target complement types, and to provide a flat structural information on phrase boundaries. An extension of this representation generates context-aware synt...

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known regarding HIV disease natural history and response to antiretroviral treatments among Asian people infected with HIV. The Therapeutics Research, Education, and AIDS Training in Asia (TREAT Asia) HIV Observational Database (TAHOD) is a recently established collaborative observational cohort study that aims to assess HIV disease natural history in treated and...