Faced with the need for human comprehension of any large collection of objects, a time honored approach has been to cluster the objects into groups of closely related objects. Individual groups are then summarized in some convenient manner to provide a more manageable view of the data. Such methods have been applied to document collections with mixed results. If a hard clustering of the data in...

As agile is maturing and becoming more widely adopted, it is important that researchers are aware of the challenges faced by practitioners and organisations. We undertook a thematic analysis of 193 agile challenges collected at a series of agile conferences and events during 2013 and 2014. Participants were mainly practitioners and business representatives along with some academics. The challen...

Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 ([email protected]). Abstract Remote sensing techniques have been widely used to map fire scars in the western United States, but have not been thoroughly tested in the eastern portion of the country. In this study, a 1998 Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image and a 1999 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM1) image were used to test different i...

The semantic analysis of documents is a domain of intense research at present. The works in this domain can take several directions and touch several levels of granularity. In the present work we are exactly interested in the thematic analysis of the textual documents. In our approach, we suggest studying the variation of the theme relevance within a text to identify the major theme and all the...

Thematic maps of spatial data are constructed by using standard thematic classification methods that do not allow management the uncertainty and, consequently, evaluation reliability resulting map. We propose a novel fuzzy-based method applied to construct in Geographical Information Systems. An initial fuzzy partition domain features dataset is triangular numbers; our finds an optimal evaluati...

BACKGROUND While Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is encouraged throughout the research process, engagement is typically limited to intervention design and post-analysis stages. There are few approaches to participatory data analyses within complex health interventions. METHODS Using qualitative data from a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT), this proof-of-concept study tests t...

What is urban economics?1 I will refrain from torturing myself with this issue. Any definition will be too wide for some and too narrow for others. My definition will be simple, but appropriate for my interests and background: urban economics is scholarly writing that has specifically urban content and contains specifically economic analysis. Everyone will notice that my definition leaves room ...

condition monitoring of bldc motors due to their important applications is gaining more and more significance. rotor eccentricity is one of the most important sources of faults in these motors. up to now, detection methods of this fault under nonstationary conditions are limited to complicated and time-consuming methods using wavelets and cohen class algorithms which are difficult to implement ...

Lexical-semantic investigations in cognitive neuroscience have focused on conceptual knowledge of concrete objects. By contrast, relational concepts have been largely ignored. We examined thematic role and locative knowledge in 14 left-hemisphere-damage patients. Relational concepts shift cognitive focus away from the object to the relationship between objects, calling into question the relevan...

In this paper we consider a method for extraction of sets of semantically similar language expressions representing different participants of the text story – thematic nodes. The method is based on the structural organization of news clusters and exploits comparison of various contexts of words. The word contexts are used as a basis for multiword expression extraction and thematic node construc...