In this work we report on a transaction log analysis of the Dutch Folktale Database, an online repository of extensively annotated folktales ranging from old fairy tales to recent urban legends, written in (old) Dutch, Frisian and a variety of Dutch dialects. We observed that users have a preference for subgenres within folktales such as traditional legends and urban legends and prefer stories ...

1 Michael R. Graham, Llantarnam Research Academy, Newport Road, Llantarnam, Cwmbran, NP44 3AF, UK. 2 Bruce Davies, Health and Exercise Science Department, University of South Wales, CF37 1DL, UK 3 Julien S Baker, Director of Research, Institute of Clinical Exercise and Health Science, Exercise Science Research Laboratory, School of Science, University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton, Lanarksh...

People desire luxury products because they are highly valued by society, among other reasons, but little is known about how wearing luxury products influences consumers’ selfidentity and behavior. This research demonstrates that wearing luxury products can lead consumers to engage in behaviors that are highly valued by society. Study participants who wear or simply imagine themselves wearing lu...

A NEW CLASS OF SETI BEACONS THAT CONTAIN INFORMATION G. R. Harp, R. F. Ackermann, Samantha K. Blair, J. Arbunich, P. R. Backus, J. C. Tarter, and the ATA Team SETI Institute 515 N. Whisman Road Mountain View, CA 94043 www.seti.org 1 Abstract. In the cm-wavelength range, an extraterrestrial electromagnetic narrow band (sine wave) beacon is an excellent choice to get alien attention across inters...

We revisit the problem of (1±ε)-approximating the Lp norm, 0 ≤ p ≤ 2, of an n-dimensional vector updated in a stream of length m with positive and negative updates to its coordinates. We give several new upper and lower bounds, some of which are optimal. LOWER BOUNDS.We show that for the interesting range of parameters, Ω(ε log(nm)) bits of space are necessary for estimating Lp in one pass for ...

Three methods of detecting road edges in mill imeterwaue radar images are presented i n this paper. All o f t h e m are based o n deformable template priors and rand o m field likelihoods. T h e f i r s t method i s formulated in a Bayes ian sett ing and employs a n adaptive M A P estimate . T h e second method i s a modification of the f i r s t , using a novel weighting scheme. T h e third me...