The ImageCLEF task of CLEF has a main goal in the retrieval of images from multi–lingual collections. The 2003 imageCLEF saw no group using the visual information of images, which is inherently language independent. The query topics of the St. Andrews collection are defined in a way that makes visual retrieval hard as visual similarity plays a marginal role whereas semantics and background know...

The study of creativity in design has tended to emphasize its value and location in the individual designer as part of a statistically outlying population rather than as a normal characteristic of an entire population. Theories of creativity have generally stressed either its mysterious, gift-like qualities to an individual or as a constructed relationship between consumer and designer. This ar...

In the gift exchange game there are n players and n wrapped gifts. When a player’s number is called, that person can either choose one of the remaining wrapped gifts, or can “steal” a gift from someone who has already unwrapped it, subject to the restriction that no gift can be stolen more than a total of σ times. The problem is to determine the number of ways that the game can be played out, f...

A study is reported in which participants gained experience with deductive reasoning and learned how to complete logic grid puzzles through a computerized tutorial. The names included in the clues and content of the puzzle varied by condition. The names present throughout the learning experience were either the participant’s own name, and the names of two friends; the names of characters from a...

This article describes the participation of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva at the 2008 ImageCLEF image retrieval benchmark. We concentrated on the two tasks concerning medical imaging. The visual information analysis is based on the GNU Image Finding Tool (GIFT). Other information such as textual information and aspect ratio are integrated to improve the results. T...

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicated to education, medicine, art, public support, and religion. We find that th...

We test the value of unconditional non-monetary gifts as a way to improve health worker performance in a low income country health setting. We randomly assigned health workers to different gift treatments within a program that visited health workers, measured performance and encouraged them to provide high quality care for their patients. We show that unconditional non-monetary gifts improve pe...

Five studies examined whether the practice of regifting--a social taboo--is as offensive to the original givers as potential regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting a gift (receivers) thought that the original giver would be more offended than participants who imagined that their gifts were regifted (givers) reported feeling. Specifically, receivers viewed regifting as similar in ...

1-800-226-6113 to cover gifts from patients as well. There is no problem with taking the occasional plate of cookies or handknitted scarf from a grateful patient, but anything more elaborate or expensive should generally be subject to the same discrimination as gifts from employees. Occasionally, employees will innocently accept a gift that exceeds corporate gift limits because they are unfamil...