The aims of the present study were to identify risk factors associated with latent tuberculosis (TB), examine the development of active disease among contacts, and assess the effectiveness of treating latent infection in indigenous Brazilians from January 2006 to December 2011. This was a retrospective study consisting of 1,371 tuberculosis contacts, 392 of whom underwent treatment for latent i...

Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a statistical technique As described by Swanson, there are two basic literature for improving information retrieval effectiveness. Here, discovery processes. The first leads from the literature we use LSI to assist in literature-based discoveries. The (R) associated with an initial topic to the literatures (I) idea behind literature-based discoveries is that di...

Feature selection has shown its effectiveness to prepare high-dimensional data for many data mining and machine learning tasks. Traditional feature selection algorithms are mainly based on the assumption that data instances are independent and identically distributed. However, this assumption is invalid in networked data since instances are not only associated with high dimensional features but...

Research on collaborative information retrieval (CIR) has shown the positive impact of collaboration on retrieval effectiveness in the case of complex or exploratory tasks. The synergic effect of accomplishing something greater than the sum of its individual components is reached through the gathering of collaborators’ complementary skills. However, these approaches often lack the consideration...

Previous research indicates that extinction of rodent maze behavior may occur without explicit performance of the previously acquired response. In latent extinction, confining an animal to a previously rewarded goal location without reinforcement is typically sufficient to produce extinction of maze learning. However, previous studies have not determined whether latent extinction may be success...

School Effectiveness and School Improvement An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t714592801 Differential school effects among low, middle, and high social class composition schools: a multiple group, multilevel latent growth curve analysis Gre...

Truth discovering is an interesting problem in data integration. In practical data integration system, it is common for the data sources being integrated to provide conflicting information about the same entity, thus raises the truth finding problem. The authors propose a Bayesian approach, the latent truth model, to solve the problem. The authors also conduct experiments regarding to both effe...

This paper describes Scorpio, the ILLCUvA Adaptation System submitted to the IT-DOMAIN translation task at WMT 2016, which participated with the language pair of English-Dutch. This system consolidates the ideas in our previous work on latent variable models for adaptation, and demonstrates their effectiveness in a competitive setting.