Visual question answering (VQA) is of significant interest due to its potential to be a strong test of image understanding systems and to probe the connection between language and vision. Despite much recent progress, general VQA is far from a solved problem. In this paper, we focus on the VQA multiple-choice task, and provide some good practices for designing an effective VQA model that can ca...

BACKGROUND Three-quarters of 3-6 year-old children in the U.S. spend time in childcare; many spend most of their waking hours in these settings. Daily physical activity offers numerous health benefits, but activity levels vary widely across centers. This study was undertaken to explore reasons why physical activity levels may vary. The purpose of this paper is to summarize an unexpected finding...

The popularity of on line document databases has led to a new problem nding which text databases out of many candidate choices are the most relevant to a user Identifying the relevant databases for a given query is the text database discovery problem The rst part of this paper presents a practical solution based on estimating the result size of a query and a database The method is termed GlOSS ...

Access to molecular and atomic data is critical for many forms of remote sensing analysis across different fields. Many atomic and molecular databases are however highly specialized for their intended application, complicating querying and combination data between sources. The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre, VAMDC, is an electronic infrastructure that allows each database to register ...

The intent of this paper is to address the obesity epidemic, which is a term used to describe the sudden and rapid increase in obesity rates that began in the 1980s and continues unabated today. Since 1980, the entire population, regardless of starting weight, is gradually gaining weight. This has led to escalating obesity rates and to obesity being considered one of the most serious public hea...

This paper reports on the participation of the system namely “sJanta” at NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research Project 11 (NTCIR-11) Question Answering (QA)-Lab English sub-task. sJanta is a modular question answering system that can answer multiple choice questions given in English natural language. We use English Wikipedia as knowledge-base. At first we retrieved Wikipedi...

A descriptive model of strength of preference for options composed of multiple attributes is proposed. This focus shift model assumes that people judge strength of preference by weighting the desirable and undesirable features of choice alternatives. Judgments of how much better a superior option is can differ in absolute magnitude from the inverse judgment of how much worse an inferior option ...

test method facet is one of the factors which can have an influence on the test takers’ performance. the purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of two different response types, multiple-choice cloze and multiple-choice test, on the pre-intermediate and intermediate test takers’ reading comprehension performance. to this end, 40 pre-intermediate and intermediate learners par...