this article examines the human rights abuses perpetrated by the united nationsmissions in places like kosovo, congo and haiti where the united nations powerhas been practically comparable to the state power. it will also investigate similarcases of abuses committed by highest-ranking un officials in new yorkheadquarter and geneva offices. the violations examined in this article include notjust...

In this paper, we describe our adaptation of the JAVELIN system to Japanese question answering for the NTCIR-6 QAC track. To establish a baseline Japaneseto-Japanese non-factoid question answering system, we performed the minimum extensions to our factoid question answering system. The answer boundary recognition task was simplified by introducing a “One Sentence Assumption” so that answer extr...

The consensus pentapeptide QL[SD]LF is a major component in the interaction of a number of families of proteins with the eubacterial DNA-clamp protein, DnaN (the β-subunit of DNA Polymerase III holoenzyme). Rankings of the motifs were established using the program MEME. The distribution of ranking of motifs in the PolC, DinB2 and UmuC protein families were shown to be significantly skewed to hi...

We consider the problem faced by a company that must outsource reverse logistics (RL) activities to third-party providers. Addressing RL outsourcing problems has become increasingly relevant issue in the management science and decision making literatures. The correct evaluation and ranking of the decision criteria/priorities determining the selection of the best third-party RL providers (3PRLPs...

The main goal of search engines is ad hoc retrieval: ranking documents in a corpus by their relevance to the information need expressed by a query. The Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) — ranking the documents by their relevance probabilities — is the theoretical foundation of most existing ad hoc document retrieval methods. A key observation that motivates our work is that the PRP does not a...

Superconductor electronics (SCE) promise computer systems with orders of magnitude higher speeds and lower energy consumption than their complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) counterparts. At the same time, scalability resource utilization superconducting are major concerns. Some these concerns come from devicelevel challenges gap between SCE CMOS technology nodes, others way Josephson...

We discuss the problem of ranking objects sampled from in general r ordered categories. A ranking model for this kind of data can be visualized as a (layered) ranking graph having a single source and sink, and the number of paths connecting source and sink is seen as a ranking-based performance measure. In this article we consider learning such a graph as a structured output in a convex optimiz...

It is important to help researchers find valuable papers from a large literature collection. To this end, many graphbased ranking algorithms have been proposed. However, most of these algorithms suffer from the problem of ranking bias. Ranking bias hurts the usefulness of a ranking algorithm because it returns a ranking list with an undesirable time distribution. This paper is a focused study o...