Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. With an estimated 3.5 billion fans around the world, it is enjoyed by nearly half the world’s population. My project asks the following question: Is it possible to predict the outcome of soccer games with high accuracy automatically? This questions is not merely of interest to fans who must satisfy their curiosity, but it is also of significant eco...

BACKGROUND The BBC Subjective Well-being scale (BBC-SWB) is a recently developed questionnaire designed to measure people's subjective experiences across the wide breadth of domains commonly included in definitions of well-being. Although it has previously been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of subjective well-being in the general population with good psychometric properties, a limita...

Even small areas as Bjelovar-Bilogora County (BBC) are affected by increasing local and regional pollution. A large variety of organic compounds exists in all parts of the atmosphere, waters and soil, accumulates in living organisms and on anthropogenic objects. This work investigates organic pollutants in BBC in relation to their spread, behavior and chemical properties, based on literature da...

The bioavailability (i.e. ability to penetrate the insect cuticle, to reach the target organ and to exert bioactivity) of two backbone cyclic (BBC) pyrokinin/pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide (PK/PBAN) antagonistic peptides was tested by applying them topically to Heliothis peltigera females and monitoring the resulting inhibition of sex pheromone production elicited by the natural...

Abstract Background Benzobicyclon (BBC) is a β-triketone herbicide (bTH) used in rice paddy fields. It has the advantages of high efficiency, low toxicity, crop safety, and good environmental compatibility, shows efficacy against weeds resistant to other types herbicides. However, as some important indica varieties are susceptible BBC, BBC currently only registered applied japonica cultivation ...

We investigate the problem of readability assessment using a range of lexical and syntactic features and study their impact on predicting the grade level of texts. As empirical basis, we combined two web-based text sources, Weekly Reader and BBC Bitesize, targeting different age groups, to cover a broad range of school grades. On the conceptual side, we explore the use of lexical and syntactic ...

The BBC microcomputer was one of several nationally produced which were superseded by the International Business Machines (IBM) Personal Computer (PC). This reflected the results of both an international market competition and rivalry between different US processor manufacturers. Along with the hardware, valuable software and supporting educational ideologies were discarded. As we make choices ...