In TREC-8, we participated in the automatic and manual tracks for category A as well as the small web track. This year, we focussed on improving our baseline and then introduced some experimental improvements. Our automatic runs used relevance feedback with a high-precision first pass to select terms and then a high-recall final pass. For manual runs, we used predefined concept lists focussing ...

INSTRUMENTED INDENTATION TESTING (IIT), also known as depth-sensing indentation, continuous-recording indentation, ultra-low-load indentation, and nanoindentation, is a relatively new form of mechanical testing that significantly expands on the capabilities of traditional hardness testing. Developed largely over the past two decades, IIT employs high-resolution instrumentation to continuously c...

Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) is the most common cause of secondary osteoporosis and confers a substantial risk for future fractures. Several recent guidelines for GIOP management have recommended the use of intervention thresholds to direct pharmacological therapy in those at high risk of fracture. The aim of this study was to analyze the characteristics of subjects on a glucocort...

This paper evaluates the research that has taken place on intra-industry trade (IIT) since the publication of Grubel and Lloyd’s pioneering volume on the subject in 1975. The evaluation of the development of the literature is organised around the themes of measurement, explanation and policy. The paper identifies significant progress on all these themes. We now have a robust theoretical framewo...

Two large, prospective, randomized, controlled trials have shown a beneficial effect of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) on the kidney function of critically ill patients. The data from these trials were combined for performance of a more detailed analysis of the renoprotective effect of IIT. After exclusion of 41 patients with preadmission ESRD, the study sample comprised 2707 critically ill pa...

This study examines the features and determinants of Portuguese intra-industry trade (IIT) during the period 1995-2003. We separate horizontal IIT from vertical III using data at the five-digit level. Based on Falvey and Kierzkowski (1987) and Flam and Helpman (1987) theoretical models and on Greenaway, Hine and Milner(1994), Hummels and Levinshon (1995) empirical studies, we use a static and d...

Abstract In consciousness science, theories often differ not only in the account of they arrive at, but also with respect to how understand their starting point. Some approaches begin experimentally gathered data, whereas others phenomenologically data. this paper, I analyse most influential phenomenology-first approach, namely Integrated Information Theory (IIT) consciousness, fits its data ex...