Under technologically relevant oxygen-rich conditions, the reaction mechanism of CO oxidation over transition metals can be complicated by the formation of oxides. Questions of whether the active surface for CO oxidation is a pristine metal, a surface oxide, or a bulk oxide is still under active debate. In this study, density functional theory calculations are used to model CO oxidation on the ...

We introduce a method for automatically labelling edges of word co-occurrence graphs with semantic relations. Therefore we only make use of training data already contained within the graph. Starting point of this work is a graph based on word co-occurrence of the German language, which is created by applying iterated co-occurrence analysis. The edges of the graph have been partially annotated b...

This paper describes our participation in the QA4MRE 2011 task, targeted at reading comprehension tests and multiple choice question answering. Our system constructs a co-occurrence graph with words that are common or proper nouns and verbs extracted from each document. The documents are pre-selected through an information retrieval process for recovering only those that are most relevant to a ...

We describe recent advances in the study of rent seeking and corruption in financial markets. We outline three areas of inquiry: (a) conceptualizing rent seeking, (b) identifying rent-provision channels and their general equilibrium impact, and (c) designing feasible remedial mechanisms. We provide suggestions for making further progress in these areas and review a variety of approaches taken i...

Remanent magnetization curves of perpendicular magnetic thin films are simulated and measured. The simulations are used to investigate the theoretical influence of the strong demagnetizing field present in these films. Conclusions are drawn from this on how remanence curves should be measured and how they should be c0rrecte.d for the demagnetizing influence. The experimental part consists of me...

Statistical Geometric Features (SGF) have recently been proposed for the classification of image textures. The SGF method is easily extended to use other geometric properties of connected regions. Following a brief review of the method, we propose such an extension to the set of SGF features for the purpose of classifying cervical cell textures. The resulting method proves to be as powerful as ...

In this paper we investigate the effect of the illuminant tilt rotation over surface textures by analysing a set of image texture features extracted from the co-occurrence matrix. From the behaviour of each texture feature, a simple method able to predict the illuminant tilt angle of test images is developed. Moreover, the method is also used to perform a texture classification invariant to the...

The cerebrovascular bed is very sensitive to CO 2 changes, particularly the areas responsible for generation and control of respiratory rhythm. We have used BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and externally induced CO 2 challenges that stimulate respiration, to identify respiratory areas in-vivo in humans and to quantify the dynamic effects of CO 2 on the BOLD fMRI signal (dynami...

We have participated in both English all words task and English lexical sample task of SENSEVAL3. Our system disambiguates senses of a target word in a context by selecting a substituent among WordNet relatives of the target word, such as synonyms, hypernyms, meronyms and so on. The decision is made based on co-occurrence frequency between candidate relatives and each of the context words. Sinc...